Simone Troller is a researcher with Human Rights Watch's children's rights division and specializes in migrant and refugee children in Europe. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, she worked for several years with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). She holds graduate degrees from Fribourg University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. She speaks German, English, French, Italian, and Russian.

Human Rights Watch Reports

France - Lost in Transit: Insufficient Protection for Unaccompanied Migrant Children at Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport (October 29,2009)

Greece - Unsafe and Unwelcoming Shores  (October 12, 2009)

Left to Survive: Systematic Failure to Protect Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Greece (December 11, 2008)

Returns at Any Cost: Spain's Push to Repatriate Unaccompanied Children in the Absence of Safeguards (October 17, 2008)

Unwelcome Responsibilities: Spain's Failure to Protect the Rights of Unaccompanied Migrant Children in the Canary Islands (July 25, 2007)

Articles

"Failing Europe's Children," EU Observer, December 30, 2008

"Greece Does EU's Migration Dirty Work," The Guardian, January 25, 2009