Gerry Simpson

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Gerry Simpson researches and advocates for refugees and people displaced inside their own country by armed conflict. During his time at Human Rights Watch, Simpson has worked on the Zimbabwean, Somali and Ivorian refugee crises in South Africa, Kenya and Liberia and on the plight of internally displaced people in Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen and Sudan’s Southern Kordofan State.

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Locked in a Tinderbox

(4) Comments | Posted September 1, 2010 | 6:41 PM

(OSH) - "They don't stop beating me. Please, sell your house, your car, your last things to get me out of here." Nafiza (not her real name) recalls the words from memory, written by her 37-year-old son in a letter smuggled out of prison by a policeman who took her...

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