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Jemera Rone
American human rights activist
Jemera Rone (March 13, 1944 – July 29, 2015) was an American human rights activist.
She served as the Human Rights Watch of East Africa Coordinator, and was best known for her years of human rights reporting on Sudan.[1]
Biography
Rone was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1944 and was raised in Venezuela.
She graduated from Barnard College in 1966 and Rutgers 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 initiated Human Rights investigations, and has overseen investigations in El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, 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