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Brenda Akia is a Ugandan international and human rights lawyer who most notably represents Uganda[1] on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and she is currently the vice chairperson of the committee for the terms 2025 to 2026[2]. Most notably she is the youngest African and first Ugandan ever elected to the CEDAW[3]. Brenda holds a PhD in Law from the University of Pretoria, South Africa[4] and she has been a consultant for various UN agencies[5] with her expertise in gender based violence, climate change and international law[6].
Education
[edit]Brenda obtained her PhD/Legum Doctor (LLD) from the University of Pretoria (South Africa).[7] [8] Her Masters degree was jointly conferred by the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany[9] and the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa.[10], and she was awarded a scholarship from DAAD[11] under the South African-German Centre for Transnational Criminal Justice[12]. In 2010, she obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Makerere University, Uganda[13] and then a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre[14] in Kampala, Uganda in 2012. She is also an alumnus of The International Nuremberg Principles Academy (Nürnberg, Germany) [15]and the University of Nairobi[16], University of Dar es Salaam[17], and Makerere University[18] East African UONGOZI Institute.[19] Since 2012, she has been enrolled as an advocate[20] [21]of the High Court of Uganda.
Career
[edit]Brenda started her career as a legal trainee at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in Uganda in April 2010. She then joined the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda[22] in Arusha, Tanzania as a legal researcher in October 2010. From 2012 until 2015, she worked as a research fellow at Human Rights Watch (HRW) in New York, when she left to return to serve Uganda. She has consulted for FIDA, UN's International Organization for Migration as a subject matter expert on women's right, sexual based violence and climate change. She also worked at the United Nation's HQ in Hague, Netherlands from She was also Senior Advisor for COP27 Coordination held at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in November 2022.
Brenda is listed as Assistants to Counsel of the International Criminal Court (ICC)[23] [24], Hague, Netherlands and she has previously worked in the Chambers Appeals Division of the ICC[25], She has also worked with the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region on the Prevention and Suppression of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (ICGLR-RTF)[26] [27], UN Women Egypt and UN Women Rwanda[28]
She has published scholarly publications[29][30] on conflict-related sexual violence, international criminal law, and international humanitarian law, including an academic contribution to a book edited by Prof. Martha M. Bradley and Dr. Marko Svicevic.[31]
She was elected to the UN CEDAW committee in November 2022, for which she was the first Ugandan and youngest African ever elected in its 40+ year history[32]. She currently serves at the Vice-Chairperson and Rapporteur of CEDAW, as well as the chair of the African group[33].
Early and personal Life
[edit]Brenda Akia has five siblings.[34] She has two children Emmanuel and Asante[35] [36] and she often recounts that her favorite thing to do is to spend time with her children.[37] She is an avid swimmer and enjoys reading non-fiction books.
Awards and recognition
[edit]- Elected as Vice-Chairperson and Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Women & Girls Rights in Geneva, Switzerland in February 2025.[38] [39] [40][41]
- Diamond Jubilee Medal awarded on March 23 2023, by the President of Uganda, H.E President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.[42][43] [44]
- Trail Blazer Award from the Uganda Law Society.[45][46][47][48]
- Franco-German Peace and Reconciliation Award.[49] [50] [51][52]
- Women 4 Women Human Rights Award[53] [54]
- Future Leaders Invitation Programme (PIPA) of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.[55][56]
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- ^ Brenda Akia and Hon. Dora K. Byamukama (2018). "A SITUATION STATUS OF SEXUAL AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN THE 12 MEMBER STATES OF THE ICGLR" (PDF).
- ^ "RTF". ICGLR - International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. Archived from the original on 2025-03-21. Retrieved 2025-04-26.
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