Dispatches
Gerry Simpson
Gerry Simpson researches rights abuses in crisis and conflict settings.
Previously, Simpson worked with Human Rights Watch’s Refugee Program on a range of refugee and other displacement situations including in Afghanistan, Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Liberia, Libya, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan’s Southern Kordofan State, Turkey, and Yemen.
Before joining Human Rights Watch, Simpson worked as a human rights lawyer in London and then as an advocate and protection officer with Médecins sans Frontières, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the International Rescue Committee's Emergency Team in numerous countries, including the Central African Republic, Colombia, Darfur, Sierra Leone, southern Sudan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan and Uganda. Simpson holds law degrees from Southampton (UK) and Rouen (France) Universities, and from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium).
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Reports Authored
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“They Forced Us Onto Trucks Like Animals”
Cameroon’s Mass Forced Return and Abuse of Nigerian Refugees
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Pakistan Coercion, UN Complicity
The Mass Forced Return of Afghan Refugees
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Turkey: Border Guards Kill and Injure Asylum Seekers
Border Lock-Down Puts Syrian Lives at Risk
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"Make Their Lives Miserable"
Israel’s Coercion of Eritrean and Sudanese Asylum Seekers to Leave Israel
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"I Wanted to Lie Down and Die"
Trafficking and Torture of Eritreans in Sudan and Egypt
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"You Are All Terrorists"
Kenyan Police Abuse of Refugees in Nairobi
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Always on the Run
The Vicious Cycle of Displacement in Eastern Congo
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“Welcome to Kenya”
Police Abuse of Somali Refugees
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All Quiet on the Northern Front?
Uninvestigated Laws of War Violations in Yemen’s War with Huthi Rebels
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From Horror to Hopelessness
Kenya’s Forgotten Somali Refugee Crisis
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Invisible Civilians
The Challenge of Humanitarian Access in Yemen’s Forgotten War
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Neighbors In Need
Zimbabweans Seeking Refuge in South Africa
