Gerry Simpson
Gerry Simpson researches rights abuses in crisis and conflict settings, which have included the Central African Republic, Ethiopia, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Syria, Ukraine, and Yemen.
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 the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium).
Articles Authored
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July 1, 2016
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May 10, 2016
Turkey: Border Guards Kill and Injure Asylum Seekers
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April 18, 2016
Dispatches: ISIS Knocks on the Door of Turkey’s “Safe Zone”
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March 3, 2016
Dispatches: Denmark’s Deterrence Tactics on Refugees
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December 2, 2015
Don’t Respond to Refugees with Fear and Bigotry
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April 13, 2015
Dispatches: After Garissa Carnage, Kenya’s Backlash Begins
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February 25, 2015
Dispatches: Israel Fails African Asylum Seekers
Reports Authored
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Gaza: Israeli Strike Killing 106 Civilians an Apparent War Crime
Governments Should Suspend Arms to Israel, Support ICC Probe
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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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"Make Their Lives Miserable"
Israel’s Coercion of Eritrean and Sudanese Asylum Seekers to Leave Israel
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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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