Philippe Bolopion

 

Philippe Bolopion is the Deputy Director for Global Advocacy at Human Rights Watch, a role he assumed in January 2016. He assists in designing and implementing HRW’s advocacy strategies worldwide and in overseeing the organization’s advocacy response to crisis situations. He joined HRW as United Nations Director in August 2010 and has traveled extensively to conflict zones, including most recently in South Sudan and Mali. Prior to that, he spent five years working with the French daily Le Monde as the United Nations correspondent. He has also worked as a journalist for France 24 and Radio France International (RFI). Before working in New York, He was based in Pristina, where he reported on the end of the Kosovo Conflict in 1999 and 2000.

He is the author of Guantanamo: Le bagne du bout du monde (La Découverte, 2004). He is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (IEP) de Bordeaux and CUEJ, the journalism school of Strasbourg.

deputy Director for Global Advocay, Human Rights Watch
Organization :
New-York - United States
Participation in the sessions of the Forum