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Reed Brody is Counsel and Spokesperson for Human Rights Watch in Brussels.
Joining Human Rights Watch in 1998, Brody led a number of high-profile campaigns, including against secret US prisons and the mistreatment of detainees in the “war on terror.” When Chile’s ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in 1998, Brody went to London where his brief helped persuade the House of Lords to strip Pinochet of his immunity. He then sought to extend that precedent to other cases.
For years now, Brody has poured his heart into the prosecution of former dictator Hissène Habré of Chad. His work on the Pinochet and Habré cases has been profiled in the New York Times (“this slightly rumpled lawyer is at the forefront of the effort to bring [dictators and warlords] to trial”) and le Monde.
Before joining HRW, he led United Nations teams in the Democratic Republic of Congo and El Salvador, and coordinated an international legal team prosecuting human rights crimes in Haiti. In 1984, he uncovered a pattern of atrocities against Nicaraguan civilians by US-funded "contras." His report received national front-page coverage and led to a temporary halt to contra funding and a personal attack from President Ronald Reagan. He was also Assistant Attorney General of New York State.
 
 
 
  
 
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