Corinne Dufka is a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch

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's Africa Division, and was criminal investigator in Sierra Leone.

She was a photojournalist for the Reuters

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 news agency, in Central America, Europe and Africa.
She was a psychiatric social worker in San Francisco.
She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 with a master's degree in social welfare.

Awards

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

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