Human Rights Watch’s Kenneth Roth, longtime Israel critic, to resign after 3 decades – Nobel Peace Prize-winning NGO’s director, who oversaw the organization’s labeling of the Jewish state as apartheid last year, says he will step down in August | Timesofisrael

The longtime leader of Human Rights Watch announced on Tuesday that he will step down this summer as executive director after nearly three decades at the helm of one of the world’s leading advocacy organizations.
Kenneth Roth ran the New York-based group as it shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for its efforts to ban anti-personnel land mines. The group also pushed to establish the International Criminal Court for prosecuting war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.