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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]

  • Comment: This remains essentially a promotional piece, with overtones of a CV. The fact the subject is an avid swimmer is way off what an encyclopedia would record (plus it is not sourced). It is unusual for someone of this profile to get at standalone article. To do so, under WP:BASIC, requires 3 in depth profiles of the subject by genuinely independent sources. Not interviews, not CVs or other self written sourcing, not from employers. Facebook is not a reliable source, nor Twitter, nor are press releases, nor are press reports covering just one event. We need the depth from a quality source. It is a difficult hurdle.
    Sources 7 to 21 are simply references back to the academic source main website. With 2 exceptions they do not give verification that applies to the subject, merely that a law faculty exists somewhere in Germany. The upshot is that there are 56 citations, at least twice the number that a conventional entry would have, many or perhaps most do not actually support the text. See WP:CITEBOMB and essay WP:THREE. The result is also a maintenance headache since it will take a lot of work to prevent link-rot over time, which has already started (e.g. reference 6 for the Kampala conference).
    If there is notability within Wikipedia's definitions - which is not shown at the moment, and may never be shown - then it would be better to have a much shorter article, with referencing by quality not quantity, and focusing on what is encyclopedic.
    Finally, the WP:COI question appears to remain unanswered so I am adding a COI banner. Feel free to clarify this issue. ChrysGalley (talk) 12:30, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Comment: Please declare your WP:COI.
    See also WP:BLP. Statements, starting with the date of birth, need to be sourced or removed. Here, the entire early life section is unsourced. Greenman (talk) 16:21, 27 April 2025 (UTC)


Brenda Akia with her Ugandan Diamond Jubilee Medal

Education

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

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].

Brenda Akia Vice Chair and Rapporteur in Geneva, Switzerland

Early and personal Life

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

References

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