Eric Goldstein

Eric Goldstein is research director for the middle east and north Africa division at <a href=http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=mideast&c=algeri target=_blank>Human Rights Watch</a>.

Missing journalists: Tunisia’s Arab Spring meets Libya’s

Two radically different “Arab Springs” have collided in the ordeal of two Tunisian journalists in Libya.

By Eric Goldstein and Oumayma Ben Abdallah

/ 30 Apr 2015

Tunisia’s legacy of pollution confronts democratic politics

Oudhref’s response toward the government is, ‘You ignored us for twenty years, and now the first project you bring us is a waste dump?’

By Eric Goldstein

/ 23 May 2014

Algeria’s amnesia decree

In Algeria, the good news is that citizens no longer live in fear of being butchered by Islamist militants at makeshift roadblocks, or of being "disappeared" by hooded

By Eric Goldstein

/ 9 Apr 2006