Dorothy Thomas
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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.
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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
- "Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Issue", Human Rights Quarterly
- Binaifer Nowrojee, Dorothy Q. Thomas, Janet Fleischman,, ed. (1996). Shattered lives: sexual violence during the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 978-1-56432-208-1 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK].
- Dorothy Q. Thomas, Sidney Jones, ed. (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 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK].
- Robin Kirk, Dorothy Q. Thomas, ed. (1992). Untold terror: violence against women in Peru's armed conflict. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 978-1-56432-093-3 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK].
- 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 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK].
