Corinne Dufka

Corinne Dufka (born 1958) is a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Africa Division,^[1] and was criminal investigator in Sierra Leone.^[2]

She was a photojournalist for the Reuters news agency, in Central America, Europe and Africa.^[3][4] She was a psychiatric social worker in San Francisco. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a master's degree in social welfare.

Awards

• 1996 1st prize, Spot News stories ^[5]
• 1996 "OPC Awards: The Robert Capa Gold Medal". Overseas Press Club of America.
• 1997 International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award^[6]
• 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program

Works

• "Guinea's depressingly familiar strongman", The Guardian, 30 September 2009
• "Charles Taylor's trail of carnage", The New Statesman, 10 April 2006
• "Disappearances", Crimes of War
• "Youth, poverty and blood: the lethal legacy of West Africa's regional warriors", Volume 17, Issue 5, Human Rights Watch, 2005
• "The Mexico City Earthquake Disaster", Social casework, Volume 69, Family Service America, 1988

References

1. ^ http://www.hrw.org/en/bios/corinne-dufka
2. ^ http://www.charlestaylortrial.org/2008/01/21/200-prosecution-witness-corinne-dufka-begins-her-testimony/
3. ^ http://www.iwmf.org/article.aspx?c=carticles&id=392
4. ^ http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=11069
5. ^ http://www.archive.worldpressphoto.org/search/layout/result/indeling/detailwpp/form/wpp/start/26/q/ishoofdafbeelding/true/trefwoord/organization_facet/Reuters?limit=20&id=wpp%3Acol1%3Adat9128
6. ^ IWMF website http://www.iwmf.org/article.aspx?id=572&c=cijwinner

External links

• "Nigeria: Use Restraint in Curbing Jos Violence", Human Rights Watch, January 19, 2010
• "Open Letter to Corinne Dufka of HRW-Stop Spreading Misleading Information on the Jos Conflict", 21 January 2010

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