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The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) is recruiting for an Advocacy Officer: Apply Now!

Application Deadline: 9 February 2025

The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA) is recruiting for an Advocacy Officer: Apply Now!

About the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (IHRDA)

IHRDA is an award-winning, Pan-African nonprofit organization promoting the effective use of human rights instruments to promote and protect human rights and development in Africa. Established in 1998 with diplomatic status in The Gambia, IHRDA has an unimpeachable track record in the defense, education, and information dissemination of human rights. IHRDA has recorded groundbreaking decisions before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR), the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of
the Child (ACERWC), as well as sub-regional mechanisms, including the ECOWAS Court of Justice.

IHRDA actively engages in advocacy actions with major actors and stakeholders to push for States’ compliance with decisions of African regional human rights mechanisms, in order to ensure that victims/survivors of human rights abuses effectively enjoy remedy and redress recommended or ordered by regional human rights mechanisms

Role Overview

IHRDA is seeking to recruit an Advocacy Officer to lead IHRDA’s work on mainstreaming advocacy into implementation of decisions of African human rights protection mechanisms as well as other advocacy-related activities within IHRDA’s three-fold mandate of ‘Defend’, ‘Educate’ & ‘Inform.’ Suitable applicants should be well-experienced in strategic litigation & have in-depth knowledge of & familiarity with the African human rights system. The Advocacy Officer candidate should have an LLB or JD with 5 years’ work experience, or an LL.M with 3 years’ work experience.

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