Laetitia Bader is the Horn of Africa director at Human Rights Watch. She has investigated conflict-related abuses, including abuses against children and internally displaced persons in Somalia, and has focused on issues of political repression, including mistreatment of political detainees in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Before joining Human Rights Watch, she worked on the rights of human rights defenders in East Africa and the Horn of Africa and worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Uganda. She has a Master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Sciences-Po in Paris, specialising in human rights, and has a Bachelor’s degree in history from University College London (UCL).She is bilingual in French and English and speaks Italian and Spanish.

Horn of Africa Director, Human Rights Watch
Organization :
New-York - United States
Participation in the sessions of the Forum