Senior Researcher, Africa Division
Corinne Dufka
Corinne Dufka, senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Africa Division with specialized expertise in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, and Guinea, is in charge of the organization's work in West Africa. From 1999-2004, Dufka was based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, both as a researcher for Human Rights Watch and, in 2002 during a year's sabbatical, as a criminal investigator for the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone. She has also done extensive research into the human rights practices of armed insurgencies within West Africa. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Dufka worked as a photojournalist for the Reuters news agency, covering conflicts in Central America, Europe and Africa, and as a psychiatric social worker in San Francisco. She has a master's degree in social welfare from the University of California at Berkeley. Dufka also speaks Spanish and French.
Human Rights Watch Reports
Liberia at a Crossroads: Human Rights Challenges for the New Government, September 2005.
Youth, Poverty and Blood: The Lethal Legacy of West Africa's Regional Warriors, April 2005.
Liberian Refugees in Guinea: Refoulement, Militarizaition of Camps, and Other Protection Concerns, November 2002.
Sierra Leone: The Jury is Still Out, July 2002.
Back to the Brink: War Crimes By Liberian Government and Rebels, May 2002.
The New Racism: The Political Manipulation of Ethnicity in Côte D'Ivoire, August 2001.
Getting Away With Murder, Mutilation, and Rape: New Testimony from Sierra Leone, July 1999.
Articles and Other Writings
"Guinea's depressingly familiar strongman," Guardian (UK), September 30, 2009.
"Charles Taylor's Trail of Carnage," New Statesman, April 10, 2006.
"Now, Protect Ivoirian Civilians," International Herald Tribune, November 16, 2004.
Combating War Crimes in Africa, Statement before the US House Subcommittee on Africa, June 24, 2004.
"Liberia: Do Not Forget the Crimes," International Herald Tribune, February 6, 2004.
"Children as Killers" and "Disappearances," Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, eds. Roy Gutman and David Rieff. London: W.W. Norton and Company, 1999.