Malcolm Smart

Malcolm Smart is:

• Director of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (2002 – 2006) Source
• member of the board of advisors of Article 19 (? – 2006)
• At Amnesty International

• Director of Middle East and North Africa Programme (? – 2006)
• Researcher for Southern Africa (1974 – 1994)
• Head of Africa Region and then Head of the Research Department (1989-1994)
• Head of Research, International Secretariat (1989 – 1994)
• Deputy Head of Research, International Secretariat (1986 – 1989)
• Head of Amnesty's Africa Region, co-authoring reports on countries such as Guinea and Morocco and editing others to ensure that they met Amnesty's critical standards on accuracy, objectivity and impartiality. (1977 – 1986)
• Researcher on Southern Africa at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International. It was the height of the struggle against apartheid and the wars for independence in Namibia and Zimbabwe. Malcolm visited the region frequently, interviewing many victims and survivors, and producing reports on prisoners of conscience, torture and other abuses. (1974 – 1986)

• Program Director of Human Rights Watch in New York (2000 – 2002)
• Deputy Director of ARTICLE 19 (1994 – 1999)
• Economic Advisor – Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department; Department for International Development (DFID)

Further info + photo here.

Testimony by Malcolm Smart in front of Parliamentary committee, re: Article XIX. 12 May 1998.

Affiliations

• Human Rights Watch
• Article 19
• Amnesty International
• Department for International Development, British government

Publications

• Poulton, Hugh and Malcolm Smart. State Before Freedom: Media Repression in Turkey. London: Article 19, 1998.