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 24, 2017
China Bans Many Muslim Baby Names in Xinjiang
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April 5, 2017
Chinese Might Without Rights
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March 30, 2017
China’s Latest Onslaught on the Internet
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March 20, 2017
What Australia Needs to Ask When China Visits
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March 13, 2017
No Light Three Years After Chinese Activist’s Death
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February 27, 2017
China Again Whitewashes History
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February 8, 2017
Why is Australia So Confident in China’s Legal System?
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January 26, 2017
China, North Korea, and Human Rights ‘Dialogue’
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January 20, 2017
China Poised to Repeat Tibet Mistakes