Bill Frelick

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Bill Frelick (Bluesky – LinkedIn – X) has served as the Refugee and Migrant Rights director at Human Rights Watch since 2005. From 2002-2005, Frelick was the director of Amnesty International USA’s Refugee Program. He was previously the director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees, where he worked for 18 years (1984-2002). He has conducted research in Albania; Armenia; Azerbaijan/Nagorno-Karabakh; Bangladesh; Bosnia; Bulgaria; Canada; Croatia; Cuba/Guantánamo; Dominican Republic; Greece; Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; Hungary; India; Iran; Iraq; Italy; Jordan; Kenya; Kuwait; Lebanon; Libya; Macedonia; Malta; Mexico; Montenegro; Myanmar; Nepal; Panama; Poland; Russia/Chechnya; Serbia/Kosovo; Slovakia; Slovenia; Thailand; Turkey; Ukraine; USA (migration detention centers in California, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Florida); and Yemen.

Frelick taught in the Middle East from 1979-1983. He was co-coordinator of the Asian Center of Clergy and Laity Concerned 1976-1979. He has a B.A. from Oberlin College, Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.A. from Columbia University.