Brad Adams is the

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of the Asian division of

Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City, that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. The group pressures governments, policy makers, companies, and individual human ...

and has been in the position since 2002. Adams has had a few tasks at Human rights Watch, such as refugees, religious discrimination, freedom of speech and armed conflict. Adams has also written articles for different media including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Guardian'' and ''

Foreign Affairs ''Foreign Affairs'' is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy a ...

''. Adams worked in

Cambodia Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailand ...

for five years prior to his work at Human Rights Watch, where he was the senior lawyer for the Cambodia field office of the

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, commonly known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) or the United Nations Human Rights Office, is a department of the Secretariat of the United Nat ...

. He also worked as the legal advisor to the Cambodian parliament's human rights committee. Adams is a member of the

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and worked as a legal aid lawyer in California. He graduated from the

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (commonly known as Berkeley Law or UC Berkeley School of Law) is the law school of the University of California, Berkeley, a public research university in Berkeley, California. It is one of 1 ...

. He currently teaches

International Human Rights Law International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a form of international law, international human rights law are primarily made up of treaties, a ...

at Berkeley.

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American human rights activists Human Rights Watch people Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) UC Berkeley School of Law alumni American expatriates in Cambodia {{Asia-activist-stub