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Cover photos by Virginia N. Sherry. © Human Rights Watch 1999.
Cover design by Rafael Jiménez.
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Central Asia; and Hanny Megally, Middle East and North Africa. The thematic
division directors are Joost R. Hiltermann, arms; Lois Whitman, children’s; and
Regan Ralph
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directors are Jonathan Fanton, chair; Lisa
Anderson, Robert L. Bernstein, David M. Brown, William Carmichael, Dorothy
Cullman, Gina Despres, Irene Diamond, Adrian W. DeWind, Fiona Druckenmiller,
Edith Everett, Michael E. Gellert, Vartan Gregorian, Alice H. Henkin, James F. Hoge,
Stephen L. Kass, Marina Pinto Kaufman, Bruce Klatsky, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman,
Josh Mailman, Yolanda T. Moses, Samuel K. Murumba, Andrew Nathan, Jane Olson,
Peter Osnos,
Kathleen Peratis, Bruce Rabb, Sigrid Rausing, Orville Schell, Sid
Sheinberg, Gary G. Sick, Malcolm Smith, Domna Stanton, and Maya Wiley.
Robert
L. Bernstein
is the founding chair of Human Rights Watch.