Salima Namusobya

Salima Namusobya has specialized in forced migration and international human rights law for more than seven years. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Law (LLB) from Uganda Christian University, Mukono, a Diploma in Legal Practice from Law Development Centre and a master of Laws (LLM) degree in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria. She has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Columbia in New York, participating in the Human Rights Advocates Program. She currently works as a Senior Legal Advisor and Grants Manager at the Refugee Law Project (RLP), School of Law, Makerere University and also serves as the Eastern Africa Coordinator for International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) – an online project of the Amsterdam Center for International Law and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, and published by the Oxford University Press. She is a member of the Uganda Law Society and East African Law Society. Salima has built extensive experience in human rights advocacy, Legal Aid Service Provision, project management, and has trained different policy makers - including the police and immigration officers in forced migration and human rights. She has also been an Election Observer in Malawi under the Electoral Institute for Southern Africa (EISA)2004 and has assessed political parties from a gender perspective in Uganda.

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