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Aryeh Neier
Neier in 2013
Born
(1937-04-22) April 22, 1937 (age 87)
Berlin, Germany
Nationality
naturalized U.S. citizen
Alma mater
Cornell University, B.S., 1958.
Occupation
Human rights activist
Known for
Co-founder Human Rights Watch, President of George Soros’s Open Society Institute (1993 to 2012)
Spouse
Yvette Celton (a merchandiser)
Children
David
Aryeh Neier (born April 22, 1937)[1] is an American human rights activist who co-founded Human Rights Watch,[2] served as the president of George Soros's Open Society Institute philanthropy network from 1993 to 2012,[3] had been National Director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1970 to 1978, and he was also involved with the creation of the group SDS[4][5] by being directly involved in the group SLID's renaming.[6]
^Neier, Aryeh 1937- encyclopedia.com
^"A Talk by Aryeh Neier, Co-Founder of Human Rights Watch, President of the Open Society Foundations". Harvard University. 16 April 2012. Archived from the original on 26 May 2018. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
^"Aryeh Neier:President Emeritus". Open Society Foundations. Archived from the original on 2013-01-13. Retrieved 2015-05-25.
^"The Rise and Fall of the Nation's Largest Student Movement: the Students for Democratic Society". The Huffington Post. May 19, 2014.
^"The Charity Guy". The New Yorker. November 24, 2010.
^Neier, Aryeh (2003). Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. Cambridge, MA: Public Affairs/Perseus Books. pp. Introduction:xx. ISBN 1586482912. As director of LID, I decided to try to invigorate its student division. One step in that direction was to rename it.
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violence unprecedented in scope and duration in Somalia". The testimony of AryehNeier (co-founder of HRW) explains the context in which the SNM was formed:...
Paradoxes of Unintended Consequences, ed. by Lord Dahrendorf, Yehuda Elkana, AryehNeier, William Newton-Smith, and István Rév (Budapest: CEU Press, 2000), pp...
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guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea." AryehNeier, the executive director of Americas Watch, wrote in a 1984 review about...
decently efficient actors in the refugee drama." Human rights activist AryehNeier, reviewing The Quality of Mercy in The New York Times Book Review, similarly...
important distinction between open and closed societies." In response, AryehNeier HRW co-founder and former executive director said, it "is wrong to suggest...
Polish Revolution: Solidarity. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09568-6. AryehNeier (2003). Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights. Public...
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where he worked at Human Rights Watch, under then-Executive Director AryehNeier. During this period, Fish was most prominently associated with the launch...
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