Alpha Fall (Senegal) Member (2006-2012) – RIP
Alpha Fall, a co-founder of IHRDA, was its Executive Director from 2003 to 2005. A law graduate from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, he also held an LL.M from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. He worked at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights before co-founding IHRDA. He worked with the International Centre for Transitional Justice in Kinshasa and was, at the time of his untimely passing on 21 April 2011, Head of Transitional Justice Unit, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bujumbura.
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Alpha Fall Honoured at NGO Forum and 49th African Commission Session
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Julieta Mendes (Guinea Bissau) Vice Chairperson (2005-2008) (2008-2011)
Dr Mendes is the SOS Kinderdorf International Regional Educational Adviser for North/West Africa, based in The Gambia. A social economist, she previously held different government positions in Guinea Bissau.
Amie Bensouda (The Gambia) Chairperson (2005-2008) (2008-2011)
Ms. Bensouda is a former Solicitor-General of The Gambia. She is currently the Managing Partner of Amie Bensouda & Co and has also served as the President of the Gambia Bar Association.
Sandra Liebenberg (South Africa) – Member (2008-2011)
Prof. Liebenberg currently holds the H.F. Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law in the Law Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch. She studied law at the University of Cape Town and the University of Essex. She is admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. She served in the Technical Committee advising the Constitutional Assembly on the Bill of Rights in the 1996 Constitution of South Africa. She founded and directed the Socio-Economic Rights Project based at the Community Law Centre (University of the Western Cape). She was involved in the Centre’s amicus curiae interventions in groundbreaking cases. She is on the editorial board of the South African Journal on Human Rights, the African Human Rights Law Journal, and Speculum Juris.
Abdoulie Barry (The Gambia)
Mr Barry is the Head of Finance at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratories in The Gambia. He holds an MBA from the Manchester Business School and is a graduate of the Association of Certified and Chartered Accountants. He has special interest in Information Technology as it relates to accounting systems and is a Microsoft Certified Professional.
Cheikh Saad Bouh Kamara (Mauritania)
A professor of sociology at University of Nouakchott, Cheikh Saad Bouh Kamara holds a PhD from University of Montpellier, France. A prominent Mauritanian human rights defender, he co-founded several human rights organisations, including Association Mauritanienne de Defense des Droits de l’Homme (AMDH), Comité Nationale de Lutte pour l’Eradication des Séquelles de l’Esclavage en Mauritanie (CNESEM) and SOS Esclaves and has served as President of the first two in the 1990s. In 1998, his work against slavery won him arbitrary arrest, detention incommunicado and a conviction by the then repressive military regime, as well as an invitation to the Board of the United Nations Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery. He was also awarded the Anti-Slavery International Award in 1998.
He served on the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) during Mauritania’s first transition to democracy (2005-2007), and also during its second transition in 2009 as its President between April and July 2009. He currently serves on the board of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).
Maryam Uwais (Nigeria) (2007-2008)
Ms Uwais has served as Special Rapporteur for the Rights of the Child at the Nigeria Human Rights Commission and is currently a member of the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.
Shirin Aumeeruddy-Cziffra (Mauritius) (2001-2007)
Ms Aumeeruddy-Cziffra is currently Ombudsperson for Children in Mauritius.
Julia Dolly Joiner (The Gambia) (2008)
Commissioner for Political Affairs with the African Union.
Bronwen Manby (South Africa) (2007)
Senior Programme Adviser at the Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) at the Open Society Institute.
Lamin Sanyang (The Gambia) (2007)
U. Oji Umozurike (Nigeria) (2007)
Professor of Law at the Abia State University, Uturu, Nigeria. Prof. Umozurike is a member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights where he served as Chair. He has served as a member of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission.
Olisa Agbakoba (Nigeria)
Vera Duarte Lobo de Pina (Cape Verde)
Justice de Pina is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Cape Verde. She has also as member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights ().
Dinah Shelton (United States of America)
Prof. Shelton is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute for Human Rights Strasbourg, France) and has taught and written extensively on international human rights law.
Fatsah Ouguergouz (Algeria) (2006)
Judge Ouguergouz serves on the bench of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. He has previously served as Secretary for Legal Matters of the International Court of Justice at the Hague. An erudite jurist, he has also served as Associate Editor, African Yearbook of International Law; UN Independent Human Rights Expert on Burundi; Professor of International Law at the University of Geneva and sits on the International Editorial Advisory Board of the African Human Rights Law Journal.
Raymond Sock (The Gambia) (2005)
Mr Sock is the former Director of the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies in Banjul. He was an attorney with a constitutional law practice in The Gambia. He is a former Solicitor General and Legal Secretary of The Gambia and has authored of several articles on human rights issues in Africa.
Claude Welch (United States of America)
Prof. Welch is a political scientist. He has written on the African human rights system and the development of civil society in Africa. He serves on the advisory council of Human Rights Watch/Africa.
Bacre Waly Ndiaye (Senegal) (2006)
Bacre Ndiaye is currently Director of the Human Rights Council and Treaties Division of the Office of the Human Rights for Human Rights.
Khadija Elmadmad (Morocco)
Prof. Elmadmad is currently UNESCO Chair on Human Rights and Migration and an Advisor to AfriMAP.
Katerina Tomasevski (late) (2004)
Abdullahi An-Na’im (Sudan)
Adbullahi An-Na’im Professor of Law at the Emory University in Atlanta. He has published extensively on human rights and Islamic law.
Anthony Appiah (Ghana)
Wolfgang Beredek
