Judith Sunderland
Judith Sunderland, associate director for Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia division, has covered a wide range of human rights issues and has a particular expertise in migration and asylum policy as well as discrimination and intolerance.
Her recent work has included research and advocacy on EU asylum policy, including migration cooperation with Libya; boat migration and deaths of migrants and asylum seekers in the Mediterranean; racist violence in Italy and Greece; police abuse affecting minority youth in France; and the impact of Spain’s housing crisis on immigrants and women heads of household.
Sunderland previously worked in Human Rights Watch’s women’s rights division, covering Latin America. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Sunderland worked as a UN human rights observer in the UN Mission in Guatemala, and as a journalist covering Central America. Sunderland is a graduate of Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs and the University of Chicago. She speaks French, Spanish, and Italian.
Articles Authored
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January 15, 2016
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January 13, 2016
For Europe, Integrating Refugees Is the Next Big Challenge
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September 21, 2015
Dispatches: A Make-or-Break Week for the Refugee Crisis
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September 9, 2015
Dispatches: Why EU Governments Should Aid Refugees on Juncker’s Call
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August 31, 2015
Grim crisis within EU borders
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August 6, 2015
Dispatches: Unending Mediterranean Catastrophe
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July 21, 2015
Dispatches: The EU, Migration, and Learning to Share
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April 29, 2015
Brussels’ Personae Non Gratae
Reports Authored
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Greece: 6 Months On, No Justice for Pylos Shipwreck
Authorities Need to Learn Lessons to Avert Future Deaths at Sea
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EU/Italy/Libya: Disputes Over Rescues Put Lives at Risk
Allow European Rescues, Agree on Safe Disembarkation
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Spain: LGBT Asylum Seekers Abused in North African Enclave
Transfer Sexual Minorities from Ceuta to Mainland
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Turned Away
Summary Returns of Unaccompanied Migrant Children and Adult Asylum Seekers from Italy to Greece
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