Gerry Simpson
Gerry Simpson researches rights abuses in crisis and conflict settings, which have included the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen.
Previously, Simpson worked with Human Rights Watch’s Refugee Program on a range of refugee and other displacement situations including in Afghanistan, Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan’s Southern Kordofan State, Turkey, and Yemen.
Before joining Human Rights Watch, Simpson worked as a human rights lawyer in London and then as an advocate and protection officer with Médecins sans Frontières, the Norwegian Refugee Council, and the International Rescue Committee's Emergency Team in numerous countries, including the Central African Republic, Colombia, Darfur, Sierra Leone, southern Sudan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, and Uganda. Simpson holds law degrees from Southampton (UK) and Rouen (France) Universities, and the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium).
Articles Authored
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February 11, 2014
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December 26, 2013
Detention? What Detention?
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August 13, 2013
Asylum Seekers? Stay Out of the Pool In Switzerland
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July 26, 2013
Sign on the Dotted Line to Return to Persecution
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May 29, 2013
Kenya’s 600,000 Terrorists
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October 25, 2011
In Sudan, peace remains elusive
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September 23, 2010
Congo's Civilians Need Protection
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September 2, 2010
Kyrgyzstan: Locked in a Tinderbox
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June 17, 2010
How Kenya welcomes refugees
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March 31, 2009
Somali refugees in Kenya forgotten and abused
Reports Authored
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“They Forced Us Onto Trucks Like Animals”
Cameroon’s Mass Forced Return and Abuse of Nigerian Refugees
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"Make Their Lives Miserable"
Israel’s Coercion of Eritrean and Sudanese Asylum Seekers to Leave Israel
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All Quiet on the Northern Front?
Uninvestigated Laws of War Violations in Yemen’s War with Huthi Rebels
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