Ole Solvang

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Ole Solvang (@OleSolvang), Deputy Director of the emergencies division of human Rights Watch, works to investigate and expose human rights violations in crisis situations on a rapid-response basis. Since 2001, he has worked for Human Rights Watch in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Sri Lanka, Syria and its neighboring countries, and Ukraine. Solvang holds a master’s degree of international affairs from New York’s Columbia University with a focus on international human rights and the former Soviet Union.