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Onyeka Obasi is the Africa Program Researcher with International League for Human Rights where she is responsible for the UNDP-funded “Enhancing Capacity for Women’s Human Rights,” which has established the first mobile legal aid clinics for rural women in Northern and Eastern Nigeria. She is also responsible for the League’s Voice of Youth Project in Sierra Leone which utilizes media to bring the issues impacting upon young citizens to the national dialogue. Ms. Obasi has worked with Legal Defence and Assistance Project (LEDAP) in Lagos Nigeria where she assisted in developing resource/training materials and co-facilitated a Strategic Thinking Seminar on Legislative Advocacy for Female Legislators and Civil Society leaders. She also designed the project on Grassroots Mobilization for Effective Participation of Women in Politics in Nigeria. Ms. Obasi was involved in a gender-focused review of the 1999 Nigerian constitution by the NGO Coalition and participated in dialogues on the amendment of the 2000 electoral act in Nigeria. She has contributed in various dialogues to end trafficking in women and girls in Nigeria and their reintegration into the society. For example, she was part of the team that paid an advocacy visit to the National Assembly in Nigeria to push successfully for the passage of the Bill on Violence Against Women. Ms. Obasi was a member of the 2002 inner caucus working on recommendations to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Right with regards to the 2001 World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance which was held in Durban, South Africa.
Ms. Obasi was a member of Boston University School of Public Health’s committee to address racial, ethnic and gender diversity, and the representation of traditionally under-represented people of color, among the student body of the school. While working with Boston University’s Partners in Health and Housing Prevention Research Center, she played a key role in designing a continuing education curriculum for Boston Resident Advocates on family violence and substance abuse issues within public housing facilities. She has made several presentations at various institutions on the effects of war on women and girls and she is committed to the cause of ending conflict and promoting the conditions for gender equality. She has interned with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and UN Division for the Advancement of Women. Her publications include Zero Tolerance - Nigerian Men Against Domestic Violence.
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