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 29, 2014
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March 28, 2014
Dispatches: Casting a Light Into China’s Black Jails
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March 14, 2014
Dispatches: The Death of a Defender in China
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March 3, 2014
China Wrongs a Rights Defender
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October 22, 2013
Dispatches: How UN Review of China Does (and Doesn’t) Matter
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September 25, 2013
Dispatches: Violent Para-Police, Faulty Trials, and an Execution in China
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June 6, 2013
Obama Should Talk Rights to Xi at California Summit
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June 6, 2013
The Head of China's Petitioning Office
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April 13, 2013
Kerry, confront China on human rights
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March 25, 2013
China's failing policy in Tibet is 'self-defeating'