Uchenna Emelonye

Professor Uchenna Emelonye

  • Visiting Professor of Human Rights Law
  • Weymouth House, Talbot Campus
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Biography

Professor Uchenna Emelonye is the Senior Human Rights Adviser to the United Nations in Sierra Leone. He brings to this position decades of multidisciplinary experiences across 22 countries and four continents in diverse aspects human rights, rule of law, good governance and security sector reform in conflict, post conflict, transition and development contexts. Prior to this post, he was the Country Representative, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Liberia. Similarly, he served as OHCHR Country Representative in Uganda and Senior Human Rights Adviser to the United Nations in Kenya. In the context of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, he was Judicial Affairs Officer, United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Sudan; Human Rights Officer, OHCHR Pristina Kosovo; Human Rights Officer, United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), etc.

Outside the United Nations system, Professor Emelonye occupied several cognate and strategic positions. He was the Head, Governance, Institutional and Justice Reform at International Development Law Organization (IDLO) Rome, Italy...

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