Andrew Stroehlein

As details emerge of yesterday’s bombings in the Nigerian city of Jos, it seems the horrific death toll – now 118 and counting, as rescue te...

There’s nothing to see at first: a widening of the median between two busy lanes of Abuja traffic. A few people sit under scattered trees fi...

I wrote this piece with my HRW colleague Steve Swerdlow for Foreign Policy , which published it on 14 November 2013. ======= After 25 y...

This article on police corruption in the street markets of Monrovia, Liberia, originally appeared in The Independent (UK) under the title ...

My Human Rights Watch colleague, Rachel Denber, and I wrote this for The Wall Street Journal , where it appeared on 2 July 2013. ======= ...

I wrote this with Steve Swerdlow, Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, and CNN published it on 25 January 2013. ======= Recen...

Dear Gulnara, Following our Twitter conversation last week, I am sending below the details of some human rights issues in Uzbekistan whic...

This was sent on 6 December. I never received a reply. Gulnara tweeted a photo of this email on 21 December, but since some may prefer it in...

FOX News -- and the conservative commentariat more generally -- helped lose the election for Romney. Others who assisted his defeat have a...

The question may seem a bit counter-intuitive at first. The common, if not yet quite conventional, wisdom is that, the more social media buz...

I wrote this piece from Zaria in Kaduna State in northern Nigeria. It appeared in The Independent on 12 March 2012. ======= “You could...

This piece originally appeared in The Independent on 12 March 2012. ======= A Christian girl has her arm hacked off in a Muslim neighb...

About a year ago, I blogged a case study detailing how social media were impacting public advocacy in international affairs. Following a fe...

Activists and NGOs facing authoritarian regimes are the ultimate underdogs. With very limited resources and access to power, they confront a...

I suppose it’s really much like any other town in southern Poland when the local ice hockey team is locked in a last-ditch effort for a spo...