Bill Frelick is the director of the Refugee Rights Program at Human Rights Watch. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/bill-frelick/rss en Laws & Policy Wed, 15 Feb 2017 05:00:46 +0000 Bill Frelick https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/02/15/the-u-s-does-not-shortchange-christian-refugees-hrw https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/02/15/the-u-s-does-not-shortchange-christian-refugees-hrw The constitutional challenge to Trump’s refugee and travel ban hangs on whether it discriminates against Muslims. Bill Frelick, director of Human Rights Watch’s refugee program, fact-checks the U.S. president’s defense of prioritizing Christian refugees. Laws & Policy Fri, 19 Aug 2016 05:00:30 +0000 Bill Frelick https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/08/19/defining-the-problem-will-impact-summit-success-in-new-york-hrw https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2016/08/19/defining-the-problem-will-impact-summit-success-in-new-york-hrw In the first part of our series “The Road to UNGA,” Bill Frelick, director of HRW’s Refugee Rights Program, calls for protection of migrants “who do not qualify for international protection as refugees” in the lead-up to the U.N. Summit on Refugees and Migrants.