Bill Frelick, director of Human Rights Watch's refugee policy program, monitors, investigates, and documents human rights abuses against refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons, and advocates for the rights and humanitarian needs of all categories of forcibly displaced persons around the world. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Frelick directed Amnesty International USA's refugee program and the US Committee for Refugees (USCR), which he served for 18 years. He was the editor of USCR's annual World Refugee Survey and monthly Refugee Reports. Frelick has traveled to refugee sites throughout the world and is widely published. He taught in the Middle East from 1979-1983 and was co-coordinator of the Asian Center of Clergy and Laity Concerned from 1976-1979. Frelick has a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.A. from Columbia University.

Human Rights Watch Reports

Stuck in a Revolving Door: Iraqis and Other Asylum Seekers and Migrants at the Greece/Turkey Entrance to the European Union (November 26, 2008)

 "The Silent Treatment": Fleeing Iraq, Surviving in Jordan (November 28, 2006)

Articles

"The EU's failed asylum rules," International Herald Tribune, November 20, 2008

 "Bhutanese Refugees:  The Right of Return, the Chance for Resettlement," The Huffington Post, June 20, 2007

 "Iraqi Refugees' Plight Grows as U.S. Dawdles," The Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2007

 "Forgotten in Nepal," The Wall Street Journal/Asia, May 17, 2007

 "Iraq's Other Surge," The Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2007