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.

For others with the same or similar name, see Dorothy Thomas.

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. dorothy q thomas.
  • Dorothy Q. Thomas (1996). All too familiar: sexual abuse of women in U.S. state prisons. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 978-1-56432-153-4.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

References
  1. Joyce Wadler (June 4, 1998). "Public Lives; $245,000 Richer, Activist Looks for Trouble". The New York Times.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-09-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Dorothy Q Thomas". London School of Economics. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
  4. "Leadership". Ms. Foundation for Women. Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2013.
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