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CURRICULUM VITAE OF NAMUSOBYA SALIMA
NAME: NAMUSOBYA SALIMA
DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: 15-05-1978, JINJA, UGANDA
NATIONALITY: UGANDAN
ADDRESS
Professional: Plot 60, Valley Drive, Ntinda- Ministers Village, Kampala
TELEPHONE:
Professional: +256 414 458041
Professional:
Private:
WORKING LANGUAGES: English
EDUCATION:
· Master of Laws (LLM), in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa [December, 2004]
· Diploma in Legal Practice [Bar equivalent], Law Development Center, Kampala, Uganda [August 2003]
· Bachelor of Laws [LLB], Uganda Christian University, Mukono Uganda –Upper Second Class Honors, [October 2002]
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Advocate of the courts of judicature in Uganda – Called to the Bar in January, 2005
Relevant non-degree programs and professional development courses
· Visiting Scholar, University of Columbia, New York, United States [August 2011 to December 2011] -Participated in the Human Rights Advocates Program
· Advanced Course on Justiciability of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (18-22 November, 2013) Institute for Human Rights, Abo Akademi University, Finland
· Global School Course on Health Rights Litigation (16-20 September, 2013) FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA
Previous work
· Senior Legal Advisor - Refugee Law Project [RLP], School of Law Makerere University - 2010 -2012
· Eastern Africa Regional coordinator for International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) (Joint project of the Amsterdam Centre for International Law- University of Amsterdam and the Centre for Human Rights- University of Pretoria, and published by the Oxford University Press) 2008-2012
· Head of Legal and psychosocial department, Refugee Law Project [RLP], School of Law Makerere University – 2005-2010
Membership of professional bodies
· Member- Uganda Law Society (ULS) and East African Law Society (EALS)
· Member of the Uganda Federation of Female Lawyers (FIDA)
Awards:
· Vera Chirwa Laureate - Recipient of the Vera Chirwa Award for Human Rights advocacy in Africa (2015). Awarded by the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
CURRENT POSITION(S)
· Executive Director - Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) [2013 –]
· Expert Member of the Working Group on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights, Appointed by Resolution ACHPR/Res.294 (EXT. OS/XVI) [2015 to date]
· Steering Committee Member – Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Network (ESCR-Net) Strategic Litigation Working Group [2015 to date]
· Associate Partner, Ssekaana Associated Advocates & Consultants [2005-]
· Board Vice Chairperson – International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Text books:
· ‘Civil Procedure and Practice in Uganda’–co-authored with Ssekaana Musa. (Law Africa Publishing 1st Edition, 2008 & 2nd Edition, 2017)
· ‘Litigating the Right to Health in Uganda: The Necessity for Innovation and Activism’, Book Chapter published in ‘Litigating the Right to Health in Africa: Challenges and Prospects’, Edited by Ebenezer Durojaye, Ashgate Publishing (2015), London UK
Journal Articles:
· Navigating the Access to Information Challenge in Health Rights Litigation in Uganda, Published by the Health and Human Rights Journal of the Harvard School of Public Health, September 2014.
· Refugee Status Determination and the Rights of recognized Refugees Under Uganda’s Refugee Act 2006, Published by the International Journal of Refugee Law, Vol.24 No.3 pp.561 – 578 August, 2012
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