Clive Baldwin

Who is Clive Baldwin?

Clive Baldwin is a British human rights lawyer who has served as Senior Legal Advisor in the legal and policy office of Human Rights Watch since 2007. He holds a degree in international history and politics from the University of Leeds, a master's degree in international relations from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, and studied law at City University, London. Before joining Human Rights Watch, he practiced as a human rights lawyer in London with the firm Bindman and Partners, worked on European human rights litigation at the AIRE Centre, served with the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, and was Head of Advocacy for Minority Rights Group International, where he helped establish the organization's first global litigation program. His casework includes Endorois Community v Kenya, the first indigenous land rights case decided by the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, and Finci v Bosnia-Herzegovina, a European Court of Human Rights ruling against the exclusion of Jews from Bosnian political office. He was the lead author of Human Rights Watch's February 2023 report documenting the forced displacement of the Chagossian people from the British Indian Ocean Territory and calling the UK's continued treatment of the Chagossians an ongoing colonial crime.

Sources: Clive Baldwin, Human Rights Watch staff biography · Human Rights Watch, "UK, US Expelled Islanders 50 Years Ago, a Crime Against Humanity," 15 February 2023