Sunday, August 30, 2009

Human Rights Watch Founder Dies at 95


Thank you Mr. DeWind!

Onésimo Alvarez-Moro

See article:
Adrian DeWind, influential activist and founder of Human Rights Watch, a global advocacy group that monitors human rights violations, died on August 7 in New York City, according to The New York Times. He was 95.

DeWind graduated from Iowa's Grinnell College in 1934, and from Harvard Law School in 1937. He is well regarded in business and financial circles, most notably for his work in tax law.

DeWind taught at the New York University School of Law from 1947 to 1955, and was a longtime partner at the law offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison in New York City. He also served on tax policy commissions for presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and New York governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo.

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