Dorothy Thomas (activist)
Dorothy Quincy Thomas (born 1960) is an American human rights activist.[1] She was a 1998 MacArthur Fellow, and a 1995 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Life
She graduated from Georgetown University with an M.A. in 1984.[2] She is senior program advisor to the US Human Rights Fund. She was founding director of the Human Rights Watch, Women's Rights Division, from 1990 to 1998. She was a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, from 2007 to 2008.[3] She is a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She is a director of the Ms. Foundation for Women.[4]
Works
- "Rape as a War Crime", SAIS Review, Johns Hopkins University Press
- "Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Issue", Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Feb. 1993)
- Binaifer Nowrojee; Dorothy Q. Thomas; Janet Fleischman, eds. (1996). Shattered lives: sexual violence during the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 978-1-56432-208-1.
- Dorothy Q. Thomas; Sidney Jones, eds. (1993). A Modern form of slavery: trafficking of Burmese women and girls into brothels in Thailand. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 978-1-56432-107-7.
- Robin Kirk; Dorothy Q. Thomas, eds. (1992). Untold terror: violence against women in Peru's armed conflict. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 978-1-56432-093-3.
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- All too familiar: sexual abuse of women in U.S. state prisons. Human Rights Watch. 1996. ISBN 978-1-56432-153-4.
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References
- ^ Joyce Wadler (June 4, 1998). "Public Lives; $245,000 Richer, Activist Looks for Trouble". The New York Times.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-09-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Dorothy Q Thomas". London School of Economics. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
- ^ "Leadership". Ms. Foundation for Women. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2013.