Thomas Becker is an international human rights attorney. He has spent most of the past two decades working on human rights issues in Bolivia. He was the catalyst behind and a lead attorney in Mamani v. Sánchez de Lozada, the first successful human rights lawsuit in the United States against a living former head of state. Becker launched the lawsuit while still a student at Harvard Law School. Becker also was part of the legal team that held seven government officials accountable in the Bolivian Supreme Court for massacring indigenous protestors.

He has conducted human rights work around the world, investigating torture and extrajudicial killings of Adivasis in India and Sahrawis in Western Sahara; documenting war crimes in Lebanon and Nagorno-Karabakh; examining land rights in South Africa and Palestine; exposing death squads in Honduras and Colombia; and serving as a nonviolent bodyguard for the Zapatista guerrillas in Mexico.

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