Benedict Rogers

Benedict Rogers

East Asia Team Leader, Christian Solidarity Worldwide

Benedict Rogers is a journalist and human rights advocate based in London. His work focuses mainly on Burma, North Korea and Indonesia. He is a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Huffington Post and has appeared on BBC, CNN, Sky, Al Jazeera and other television and radio stations. He is the co-founder and deputy chairman of the Conservative Party's human rights commission and the co-founder of the International Coalition to Stop Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea. He is also the East Asia Team Leader at Christian Solidarity Worldwide and the founder of Hong Kong Watch. He has written three books which focus on Burma, including A Land Without Evil: Stopping the Genocide of Burma's Karen People (Monarch, 2004) and Burma: A Nation at the Crossroads (2012), and co-authored two others on Christian human rights obligations.