Rose Styron has been at the forefront of the field of international human rights since she joined the Board of Amnesty International USA in 1970.
She chaired PEN’s Freedom to Write Committee for a decade and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights Awards for 18 years. She currently serves on the Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch. She also served on the boards of Human Rights Watch, The Reebok Human Rights Awards, The Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First), Equality Now, The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women & Children, and the Association to Benefit Children.
She has traveled on behalf of these organizations to Russia, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Bosnia, Turkey, German East and West, Hungary, and Poland. She is currently involved with The Project on Justice in Times of Transition Toward Democracy.
A poet and journalist, Ms. Styron has published four books, including By Vineyard Light, as well as essays on international human rights in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and The New Republic.
In the field of mental health, she contributed a chapter to Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression and has spoken at Johns Hopkins Medical School about William Styron’s depression at its immediate impact on the family. She serves on the advisory board of Families for Depression Awareness as well as a number of other boards concerned with human and civil rights and advocacy for children.
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