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- Birth nameAlison B. Liebhafsky
- Alison des Forges was born on August 20, 1942 in Schenectady, New York, USA. She was married to Roger V. Des Forges. She died on February 12, 2009 in Clarence Center, New York, USA.
- SpouseRoger V. Des Forges(1964 - February 12, 2009) (her death, 2 children)
- She died on February 12, 2009, in the air crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407, en route from Newark, New Jersey, to her home in Buffalo, New York.
- Her last name is pronounced deh-FORZH.
- She earned her B.A. in history from Radcliffe College in 1964, and her M.A. and a PhD in the same discipline from Yale University in 1966 and 1972. She specialized in the African Great Lakes region and studied the Rwandan Genocide. She was also an authority on human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Burundi.
Des Forges left academia in 1994 in response to the Rwandan Genocide, to work full-time on human rights. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1999, and became the senior adviser at Human Rights Watch for the African continent.
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