WHAT IS HAPPENING IN SUDAN?

A conversation with former Human Rights Watch researcher and expert on Sudan, Jehanne Henry

 

Sudan has been devastated by war over the past two years and hundreds of thousands of people have fled the conflict, facing starvation and terrible conditions in refugee camps.

Join us online for a Zoom webinar (students who'll already be on campus are also invited to join us for a group viewing) to hear from Jehanne Henry, a human rights lawyer, researcher and advocate whose focus is on armed conflicts and transitional justice. Jehanne will share updates and insights about the ongoing conflict in Sudan, as well as sharing more about her own career working to expose human rights violations.

 

  

Jehanne Henry is a human rights lawyer, researcher and advocate with a particular focus on armed conflicts and transitional justice. Between 2007 and 2020 she was a researcher and director in Human Rights Watch’s Africa division focusing on Sudan, South Sudan, and East Africa. She led numerous fact finding missions across the region, authored dozens of reports, opinion pieces and articles on human rights issues, and appeared in international media outlets. From late 2020 - 2021 she served as an adviser in Sudan’s transitional government. She continues to work with Sudanese and international human rights groups in the wider Sahel, East, and Horn of Africa regions.

She is also a rostered expert with the Justice Rapid Response, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, and adjunct faculty in the Human Rights Program at Hunter College. Previously, Henry served with the UN, USAID, and NGOs in other conflict and post-conflict zones including Darfur, Kosovo and Cambodia. She worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and clerked for a US federal judge in the Southern District of NY. She has a BA in Philosophy from Columbia College and a JD from the University of Texas School of Law.

March 11, 2026 at 12:30pm Pacific

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March 11, 2026 at 12:30pm Pacific

UCLA Law Room 2448

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