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Birgit Schwarz
Birgit Schwarz is Communications Manager Africa at Human Rights Watch. Based in Johannesburg, she is responsible for media advocacy and outreach in Southern, Central and West Africa
Refugees the scapegoat of SA’s ills
A girl’s experience tells the story of xenophobia and how it robbed her of a sense of belonging
Armed militants wage war on Burkina Faso’s schools
A survivor tells of how Islamists carrying AK-47s arrived on motorbikes, forced fleeing children to lie on the ground and beat teachers before setting a building on fire
Q&A: How Jammeh rape allegations were uncovered
Researcher Marion Volkmann-Brandau on what it took to directly link Gambia’s former dictator to rape and sexual explitation