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Leslie Lefkow is deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch.

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European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

After Garissa, Kenya needs to break the cycle

Leslie Lefkow 6 April 2015

The massacre at a university in Kenya should lead the government to a recognition that repressive and discriminatory reactions, however tempting, have only fuelled such horrific violence.

Famine crimes in South Sudan

Leslie Lefkow 15 August 2014

The fighting factional leaders in South Sudan have not just been engaging each other’s forces: they have dragooned the civilian population into a wider campaign of devastation.

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