LaShawn R. Jefferson

LaShawn R. Jefferson is executive director of the Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, which she joined in 1993. She has worked on a range of international women’s human rights issues in a variety of countries.

Jefferson was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, and received her M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Other Related Resources

• Refusing to Go Away: Strategies of the Women's Rights Movement

Link: http://hrw.org/

Last Updated: Dec 15, 2010