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 11, 2018
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April 4, 2018
China Detains 7 More North Korean Refugees
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March 6, 2018
Xi Won’t Go
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February 16, 2018
China State TV Celebrates New Year – with Racism
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February 2, 2018
The Deafening Silence on China's Human Rights Abuses
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January 3, 2018
A Chinese #MeToo Movement? Not Yet
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December 21, 2017
New Zealand, China, and Human Rights: Freedom’s a Lot to Lose
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December 18, 2017
‘They Are Here!’: Chinese Artist Detained for Filming Evictions
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November 5, 2017
China Needs to Stop the Growing Gender Gap
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October 17, 2017
Dueling Chinese Parties, and the Gulf Between Them