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Jemera Rone | |
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| Born | (1944-03-13)March 13, 1944 Fort Worth, Texas, US |
| Died | July 29, 2015(2015-07-29) (aged 71) |
| Known for | Human rights activism |
Jemera Rone (March 13, 1944 – July 29, 2015) was an American human rights activist. She served as theHuman Rights Watch ofEast Africa Coordinator, and was best known for her years of human rights reporting on Sudan.[1]
Rone was born inFort Worth, Texas, in 1944 and was raised inVenezuela. She graduated fromBarnard College in 1966 andRutgers University Law School. She was an outspoken critic of the development of the oil infrastructure in East Africa, which she believes often comes at the expense of the local population, rather than to their benefit.[2]
She initiatedHuman Rights investigations, and has overseen investigations inEl Salvador,Honduras, andNicaragua, and been involved with monitoring human rights in 24 different countries.[3] Rone lived in El Salvador in 1985 during their civil war. She reported on the human rights violations committed by the revolutionaries - the Sandinistas - to provide more factual evidence than the U.S. State Department was providing; they were backing the corrupt Salvadoran government. The information provided by the Human Rights Watch showed that even with a powerful administration such as Reagan's, they will provide the truth.[4]
Rone died on July 29, 2015, in Washington, D.C. fromovarian cancer at the age of 71.[2]
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