Sophie Richardson
Sophie Richardson serves as the China Director at Human Rights Watch. She has overseen the organization’s research and advocacy on China since 2006, and has published extensively on human rights and political reform in the country and across Southeast Asia. She has testified to the Canadian Parliament, European Parliament, and the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Dr. Richardson is the author of China, Cambodia, and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence (Columbia University Press, Dec. 2009), an in-depth examination of China's foreign policy since 1954's Geneva Conference, including rare interviews with Chinese policy makers. She speaks Mandarin, and received her doctorate from the University of Virginia and her BA from Oberlin College.
Videos
Multimedia
Obama in China - Rights Watch #20, November 17, 2009
Tiananmen: China's Unhealed Wound, May 12, 2009
Articles Authored
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April 26, 2019
Pakistan Should Heed Alarm Bells Over ‘Bride’ Trafficking
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March 20, 2019
China Marks Tibetan Anniversary with Military Parade
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March 13, 2019
Inconvenient Truths at China’s UN Rights Review
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February 22, 2019
Thermo Fisher’s Necessary, But Insufficient, Step in China
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January 8, 2019
As China’s Grip Tightens, Global Institutions Gasp
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January 7, 2019
China’s Xinjiang Tour Should Have Fooled No One
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December 12, 2018
As China’s Grip Tightens, Global Institutions Gasp
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December 12, 2018
Is China winning its fight against rights at the UN?