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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November 15, 2012
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April 30, 2012
State of Injustice
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February 2, 2012
The Forbidden Citizen
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November 8, 2010
Indonesia: Watch, Cringe and Cry
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October 29, 2010
The Politics of Blogging in Vietnam
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February 18, 2010
Getting It Right on China
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November 3, 2006
China Can Help the People of Zimbabwe and Sudan