Reed Brody: "The Hissène Habré Trial and the Extraordinary African Chambers"

Mr Brody is Counsel and Spokesperson for Human Rights Watch. His work with the victims of the exiled former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré – who was at the time of the lecture on trial before the Extraordinary African Chambers in Senegal – and on the cases of Augusto Pinochet of Chile and Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier of Haiti has been featured in four documentary films, including "The Dictator Hunter." He is author of four HRW reports on the US mistreatment of prisoners in the "war on terror" and the book "Faut-il Juger George Bush?"  Before joining Human Rights Watch, he led United Nations teams investigating massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo and monitoring human rights in El Salvador, and he helped to prosecute human rights crimes in Haiti. His 1984 investigation uncovered atrocities by the US-backed "contras" against Nicaraguan civilians. He has taught at the Columbia University School of Law, the University of Paris I and the Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of the Washington College of Law.