Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Bill Frelick

Bill Frelick is director of Human Rights Watch’s refugee program and previously directed Amnesty International USA’s refugee program and the US Committee for Refugees (USCR)

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The False Promise of Operation Provide Comfort

The US-led response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait has had many immediate repercussions on the international humanitarian network set up at the dawn of an earlier “new order” -- the close of World War II. It also has more than a few similarities to the protection scheme set up then to assist and prote

Bill Frelick • 12 min read