Marlise Simons


Marlise Simons is a Dutch-born journalist who joined The New York Times in 1982.
She has been based in Paris since 1989, covering a range of subjects across Europe and elsewhere.
Most recently she has focused on international human rights law and on trials involving war crimes and genocide at both national and international courts.

Career

Simons has worked extensively as a journalist throughout Latin America, where she lived from 1971 to 1989, also reporting for The Washington Post.
For The New York Times, she has reported from Central and South America and the Caribbean on conflicts and political murder, torture and disappearances in Latin America. She has also reported on environmental issues in the Brazilian Amazon.
She currently works for The New York Timess Paris Bureau. In Europe her writing has covered political, social, cultural and environmental issues and in particular proceedings at international courts and tribunals in The Hague dealing with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. She has reported extensively on the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court.

Personal life

Simons was born in Sittard, The Netherlands. She is married to Alan Riding, a journalist and author, with whom she has a son, Alexander.

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