Peter Bouckaert
Peter Bouckaert | |
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| Born | Pellenberg, Belgium |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Barbara Stanford University Law School |
| Known for | Human Rights advocacy |
Peter Bouckaert is a human rights activist who served as emergency director for Human Rights Watch from 1997 until 2017. He has investigated Human Rights abuses in Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and the Central African Republic. He now works for Blue Ventures, a marine conservation group.
His is the subject of the 2014 documentary E-Team, a documentary about the atrocities in Syria and Libya
He has been based in Madagascar since 2019, where he manages a farming project in Andasibe, Moramanga.