Patricia Gossman

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.

Articles Authored

Other Writing

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