Meenakshi Ganguly
Meenakshi Ganguly is deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division, overseeing the work in a number of countries in the region. She joined Human Rights Watch in 2004, and was formerly South Asia director. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Ganguly served as a correspondent for Time Magazine, and before that, worked with the Press Trust of India.
She has researched and documented a broad range of human rights issues in South Asia including failures in the criminal justice system; discrimination based on religion, caste, ethnicity, or sexual orientation; rights of refugees; violence targeting women and children; crackdown on freedom of expression and association; as well serious rights violations during insurgencies and internal armed conflict. She has published numerous articles on South Asia including for the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Scroll, Wire, Dhaka Tribune, The Kathmandu Post, among others.
Ganguly has a Masters in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics.
Articles Authored
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September 27, 2017
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August 24, 2017
India’s Supreme Court Upholds Right to Privacy
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August 16, 2017
Seventy Years On, India and Pakistan Need a Course Correction
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July 7, 2017
No, Bangladesh, The Truth is Not a ‘Smear Campaign’
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June 28, 2017
Together, Trump and Modi Skip Human Rights
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June 13, 2017
End the Wait
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April 20, 2017
No One Should Defend the Use of a Human Shield by the Army
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March 29, 2017
Bangladesh Expands Efforts to Stifle Free Speech
Reports Authored
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“Being Neutral is Our Biggest Crime”
Government, Vigilante, and Naxalite Abuses in India’s Chhattisgarh State
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