Zama Neff
Executive Director, Children’s Rights Division
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Zama Neff is the executive director of Human Rights Watch’s children's rights division. Under her leadership, the organization has launched new work on education and armed conflict, child rights and new technologies, secondary education, refugee children’s right to education, hazardous child labor in tobacco, girls’ reproductive rights, and other issues. She has over two decades of experience documenting human rights abuses and has authored reports and articles on a range of abuses against children.
Neff is a founder of the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack—a unique group of human rights, humanitarian, and UN agencies—and has helped lead the coalition’s work for over a decade. Through global reporting and international advocacy, the Coalition helped firmly establish that attacks on schools, teachers, and students characterize armed conflict, and promoted the Safe Schools Declaration, a political declaration to protect education in war, now endorsed by a majority of countries. She is a graduate of Davidson College and New York University School of Law.Articles Authored
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December 16, 2014
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May 6, 2014
Nigeria Abductions a Call to Action
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September 11, 2013
Africa's Child Mining Shame
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November 20, 2012
Learning Under the Gun
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September 5, 2012
The Hidden Victims of Tobacco
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November 17, 2011
Child Farmworkers in the United States: A “Worst Form of Child Labor”
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January 24, 2011
Schools as Battlegrounds
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November 16, 2010
A Tough—and Dangerous—Way to Spend a Childhood
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July 26, 2010
For Child Farmworkers, Lives of Poverty and Danger
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Still Making Their Own Rules
Ongoing Impunity for Police Beatings, Rape, and Torture in Papua New Guinea
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