Dr. Josephine Ndagire has been elected by the United Nations Human Rights Commisiom (UNHRC) to its its Advisory Committee as a member from African States.
Dr Josephine Ndagire is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public and Comparative Law at the School of Law makerere University .
The UNHRC Advisory Committee is essentially the elite “think-tank” of the UN’s highest human rights body (Human Rights Council, established in 1946 as the Human Rights Commission but rebranded in 2006).
It was established to provide specialized, research based expertise on cross-cutting thematic issues, such as, rights impacts of Artificial Intelligence, climate change, and socio-economic justice.
Members are elected on a geographically distributed basis (five seats designated for African States).
