Alison Des Forges

Alison Des Forges
Alison Des Forges, 2005
Born
Alison B. Liebhafsky

(1942-08-20)August 20, 1942
DiedFebruary 12, 2009(2009-02-12) (aged 66)
Alma materRadcliffe College
Yale University
Known forHuman rights activism
Spouse
Roger V. Des Forges
(m. 1964)
[1]
Children2[2]

Alison Des Forges (née Liebhafsky; August 20, 1942 – February 12, 2009) was an American historian and human rights activist who specialized in the African Great Lakes region, particularly the 1994 Rwandan genocide. At the time of her death, she was a senior advisor for the African continent at Human Rights Watch. She died in a plane crash on 12 February 2009.[3]

  1. ^ "9/11 widow, MacArthur Fellow, jazz musicians among victims" (2009-02-13). USA Today. Retrieved February 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference nytimes was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Straus, Scott; Waldorf, Lars (April 18, 2011). Remaking Rwanda: State Building and Human Rights after Mass Violence. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. xiii. ISBN 978-0-299-28263-9.