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
-
April 24, 2016
-
April 14, 2016
Dispatches: Swimming against the LGBT Tide in China
-
-
March 25, 2016
Dispatches: Hong Kong Booksellers Are Free – Or Are They?
-
-
February 10, 2016
Dispatches: Bangladesh Should Stand Up to China’s Bullying
-
February 4, 2016
Dispatches: Reversing Wrongful Convictions in China
-
December 17, 2015
Dispatches: China’s School Construction Doesn’t Equal Inclusion
-
December 11, 2015
Dispatches: Showing Diplomatic Solidarity at Lawyer’s Trial in China
-
November 22, 2015
Dispatches: No Justice for Chinese Rights Lawyer