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Patricia Gossman

Patricia Gossman

Senior Researcher, Afghanistan Follow @pagossman

Patricia Gossman is senior researcher on Afghanistan. Prior to joining HRW, she was Director of the Afghanistan Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice on Afghanistan, and was the founder and director of the Afghanistan Justice Project, an OSI-funded project to document war crimes committed during the Afghan conflict, 1978-2001. She was Senior Researcher for South Asia at Human Rights Watch in the 1990s, covering not only Afghanistan, but India, Pakistan and Nepal. She received her doctorate in South Asian Studies from the University of Chicago and is widely published on human rights issues in the region.

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From HRW

  • January 20, 2015 Video

    Afghanistan: Media Under Attack

Articles Authored

  • February 26, 2017 Dispatches

    Afghan LGBT Asylum Seekers in UK Among Most Vulnerable

  • February 6, 2017 Dispatches

    Afghanistan’s Civilian Casualties Hit Record High in 2016

  • January 24, 2017 Dispatches

    Why the European Union Shouldn’t Deport Afghans

  • December 20, 2016 Dispatches

    Freed Afghan Warlord May Punish Those Who Helped Jail Him

  • October 20, 2016 Dispatches

    Suffer the Afghan Children

  • September 21, 2016 Dispatches

    Afghanistan War Crimes Suspect Comes Home

  • April 26, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Barring Afghan War Crimes Suspects from the US

  • April 20, 2016 Commentary

    China’s “Anti-Terrorism” Alliance Puts Afghan Rights at Risk

    Published in Hasht e Subh Daily
  • April 19, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Afghanistan’s Civilians Bear Brunt of Taliban Offensive

  • March 17, 2016 Dispatches

    Dispatches: Afghan Inquiry Slaps Wrists, Sidelines Justice

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Other Writing

  • Afghanistan’s Judicial Vigilantism
  • Afghanistan’s ‘Runaway’ Injustice
  • Afghanistan’s Election Resolution Sidelines Rights
  • Afghanistan’s Schools and Clinics under Fire

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