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Minky Worden is an American human rights advocate and author who is the Media Director of Human Rights Watch.
She joined Human Rights Watch in 1998.[1] Before that, she lived and worked in Hong Kong as an adviser to Democratic Party chairman Martin Lee and worked at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. as a speechwriter for the U.S. Attorney General and in the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.[1]
She is editor of China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges (Seven Stories, 2008) and co-editor with Kenneth Roth and Amy Bernstein of Torture: Does It Make Us Safer? Is It Ever OK?: A Human Rights Perspective (New Press, 2005).
A native of Tennessee, Worden is a graduate of Vanderbilt University.[citation needed] She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an elected member of the Overseas Press Club's Board of Governors[1]. She speaks Cantonese and German.[1]
Worden is married to L. Gordon Crovitz, a media executive and advisor to media and technology companies who is a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal; they have two sons.
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
China's Nobel Threats Backfire Beijing is a growing power, but blocking news of jailed rights activist Liu Xiaobo's Peace Prize projects weakness--and warning that the honor would be seen as "an unfriendly act" may have helped him win
Saturday, October 9, 2010China's Nobel Threats Backfire Beijing is a growing power, but blocking news of jailed rights activist Liu Xiaobo's Peace Prize projects weakness--and warning that the honor would be seen as "an unfriendly act" may have helped him win
