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...decade later, Bogert had covered major international crises across the world for Newsweek, and she said she was ready to move on. The breaking point came, she said, when her editor asked her to travel to the south of France and recreate Princess Diana’s last days after her death...
...That was the best story of the week,” Bogert said. “But I didn’t want to do that, and I said...
...With that, Bogert decided the time had come to “get out of the stands and join a team”—Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based organization that researches and reports on human rights abuses. Today, she serves as HRW’s associate director, using her media experience to help the organization publicize reports on human rights violations...
...Bogert spoke to The Crimson from a conference in Dublin that brought together 110 nations to sign a treaty to ban cluster munitions, a weapon that explodes in the air and disperses a number of “bomblettes” over a wide area. She said the treaty had given her hope for progress on human rights in the coming century. But she said human rights activists are not as blindly optimistic as some people believe...
...We’ve looked the absolute worst in the world in the eye and documented it extensively,” Bogert said. “We’re not naïve about how awful people can be to each other, and we don’t expect to work ourselves out of business...