Leslie Lefkow, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch's Africa division, has specialized expertise on Sudan, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Lefkow focuses on investigating and documenting abuses in Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan, abuses in armed conflicts, and other issues requiring rapid response in sub-Saharan Africa.  Before joining Human Rights Watch, she worked as a humanitarian affairs advisor in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone. Lefkow is a graduate of Columbia Law School and Bryn Mawr College.

Human Rights Watch Reports

Darfur Destroyed: Ethnic Cleansing by Government and Militia Forces in Western Sudan (May 7, 2004)

Darfur in Flames: Atrocities in Western Sudan (April 2, 2004)

Trapped Between Two Wars: Violence Against Civilians in Western Cote d'Ivoire (August 5, 2003)

Articles

"Falling for Sudan's propaganda," Business Day, March 16, 2006

"No Justice for Sudan," The Guardian, January 10, 2005

"Don't Trust Khartoum," The International Herald Tribune, August 11, 2004