Salima Namusobya
 

Salima is an Ugandan lawyer and human rights advocate who has specialized in international human rights law and forced migration. She is currently the Executive Director of the Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) and an expert member of the Working Group on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR). Previously, she worked in various capacities with the Refugee Law Project (RLP), School of Law, Makerere University and also served as the Eastern Africa Coordinator for International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) - a project of the Amsterdam Center for International Law and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria, published by Oxford University Press. She holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree, a Diploma in Legal Practice and Master of Laws in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Columbia in New York, participating in the Human Rights Advocates Program, and also completed courses on litigating social and economic rights from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Institute for Human Rights at the Abo Akademi in Turku, Finland. She is also a co-author for the textbook on ‘Civil Procedure and Practice in Uganda’ and contributed a chapter for a book on ‘Litigating Health Rights in Africa’. She serves on the Boards of several local and international NGOs, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Strategic Litigation Working Group of the Global Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Network (ESCR-Net). She has undertaken consultancies for national and international institutions including the UN and International IDEA in the areas of Human Rights and Governance. She is an Advocate of the Courts in Uganda and a member of the Uganda Law Society and the East Africa Law Society. Salima is a laureate of the Vera Chirwa Award for Human Rights Advocacy in Africa.