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Phil Robertson

Phil Robertson

Deputy Director, Asia Division Follow @Reaproy

Phil Robertson, deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Asia division, oversees the organization's work throughout Asia, especially in Southeast Asia, North Korea and Japan. 

Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 2009, he worked for more than a decade in Southeast Asia on human rights, labor rights, protection of migrant workers, and counter-human trafficking efforts with a variety of non-governmental organizations, international and regional trade union federations, and UN agencies. As program manager of the UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP), he oversaw the successful negotiation of the first regional inter-governmental agreement on human trafficking in the greater Mekong sub-region. Prior to UNIAP, he led the Mainland Southeast Asia office of the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center, working on trade union rights, democratic political reform, and rights of migrant workers, focusing primarily on Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and Thailand. A 1997 graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, he is fluent in Thai and Lao. 

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Articles Authored

  • August 28, 2019 Commentary

    Two Years On: No Home for the Rohingya

    Published in Asia Times
  • August 5, 2019 Dispatches

    What’s Next for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge Victims?

  • January 18, 2019 Commentary

    Why I Helped Rahaf Mohammed

    Published in The Globe and Mail
  • September 6, 2018 Commentary

    The Crushing of the Free Press in Myanmar

    Published in The Globe and Mail
  • June 12, 2018 Dispatches

    Human Rights Pushed Aside at Trump-Kim Summit

  • November 29, 2017 Dispatches

    Power at All Costs: Where Missiles and Human Rights Overlap in North Korea

  • November 8, 2017 Dispatches

    Facing a Prison Camp for Fleeing North Korea

  • September 18, 2017 Commentary

    North Korean Refugees Trapped by China’s Expanding Dragnet

    Published in News Deeply
  • August 30, 2017 Dispatches

    Justice Needed for North Korea’s ‘Disappeared’

  • June 20, 2017 Dispatches

    Death of Otto Warmbier Highlights North Korea Rights Abuses

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    May 26, 2011

    Vietnam: The Party vs. Legal Activist Cu Huy Ha Vu

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    February 23, 2010

    From the Tiger to the Crocodile

    Abuse of Migrant Workers in Thailand

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