Aaron Rhodes

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1949 –

26

Who is Aaron Rhodes?

Aaron Rhodes is an international human rights activist, university lecturer and essayist based in Hamburg, Germany. He served as Executive Director of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights between 1993 and 2007, during which period the IHF was engaged inter alia in human rights challenges in the Balkans, in Chechnya, and in Central Asia, and the organization expanded significantly. He was active in civil society campaigns vis a vis the Human Dimension of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Council of Europe, the European Union and the United Nations.

He has also been involved with human rights issues in a number of Middle Eastern countries. In 2008, after the closure of IHF due to an economic crime, he helped found and became Policy Adviser to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, a project of the Netherlands-based NGO Bridging the Gulf-Foundation for Human Security in the Middle East. He has also undertaken human rights investigations in Cuba, Japan, Korea and elsewhere.

Rhodes is a co-founder of the Freedom Rights Project, a research project that documents and analyzes trends in human rights, including the inflation, dilution and politicization of human rights in international law.

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Born
Feb 25, 1949
Education
  • University of Chicago
  • Reed College

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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