Robert Capa Gold Medal – Overseas Press Club of America 1996 Corinne Dufka is an American photojournalist, human rights researcher, criminal investigator, and social worker.
Later, upon watching the news coverage of the attack, Dufka realized that she had lost “compassion” for the subjects of her work, and resolved to end her career as a photojournalist.
That same year she was awarded the MacArthur "genius grant" Fellowship for her journalistic and documentary work documenting the 'devastation' of Sierra Leone and the conflict's toll on human rights.
[4][8] Dufka returned to West Africa in 2005 to lead the Human Rights Watch field office in Dakar, Senegal until 2011.
In 2012, Dufka testified before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the armed conflict in northern Mali.