Feb 24, 05 Situation in Nepal
Emergency in Nepal with suspension of democracy and civil rights. A discussion with Saman Zia-Zarifi of Human RIghts Watch.
SAMAN ZIA-ZARIFI is the Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch's
Asia Division. Previously, he directed the Academic Freedom Program at
Human Rights Watch. Among his other work at HRW, he has undertaken emergency missionsinvestigating conflicts, most recently in Afghanistan and Iraq. Prior to joining HRW, he was Senior Research Fellow at the Department of International Law at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where he conducted a special project on multinational corporations. He has written widely on the impact of multinational corporations and economic globalization on human rights, including Liability of Multinational Corporations for Violating International Law (co-edited with Menno Kamminga) (Kluwer 2000). He was born and raised in Tehran, Iran. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University (1990), his Juris Doctor from Cornell Law School (1993) and an LL.M. in International Law from New York University School of Law (1997). He practiced for several years as a corporate litigator in Los Angeles.
