Belkis Wille
Belkis Wille is an associate director in the Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division at Human Rights Watch. Since 2022, she has been documenting laws of war violations in Gaza, Israel, Sudan, and Ukraine. Belkis has also spearheaded the organization’s work investigating the harms stemming from personal data collection, including biometrics, in humanitarian contexts. This work has included investigations in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Jordan, and Kenya. She has also led the organization’s work on the preservation of content taken down by social media platforms that is vital to war crimes investigations.
Belkis was previously Human Rights Watch’s senior Iraq researcher for three-and-a half years, and its Kuwait, Qatar, and Yemen researcher, based in Sanaa, for over three years.
Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, Belkis worked with the World Organisation Against Torture in Libya. She has an LLM in human rights and humanitarian law from the University of Essex, a graduate diploma in law from City University London, and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. Belkis speaks English, German, French, and Arabic.
Articles Authored
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July 23, 2019
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June 14, 2019
Iraq: Not a Homecoming
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February 24, 2019
Swedish Court Says Abuses Against ISIS Fighters Still War Crimes
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February 24, 2019
Families of Iraqi ISIS Suspects Transferred from Syria
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February 10, 2019
Accounting for Civilian Victims in Iraq
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November 14, 2018
Iraq’s So-Called “ISIS Families”: Rounded up, Vilified, Forgotten
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October 5, 2018
Nobel Recognizes Fighters Against Sexual Violence
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September 27, 2018
The Missing Sons of the War on ISIS
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August 8, 2018
Bride’s Killing in Iraq Shows New Law Needed
Reports Authored
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“The Massalit Will Not Come Home”
Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity in El Geneina, West Darfur, Sudan
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“We Had No Choice”
“Filtration” and the Crime of Forcibly Transferring Ukrainian Civilians to Russia
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“No One Represents Us”
Lack of Access to Political Participation for People With Disabilities in Iraq
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“Life Without a Father is Meaningless”
Arbitrary Arrests and Enforced Disappearances in Iraq 2014-2017