Joy Ezeilo
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Joy Ezeilo | |
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| Born | Joy Ngozi Ezeilo |
| Citizenship | Nigeria |
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| Awards | 2022 BBC 100 Women |
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Joy Ngozi Ezeilo ⓘ is a Nigerian professor of public law, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, an activist,[1] and a six-year United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking persons in Africa.[2][3][4] She is also a former Commissioner for Gender and Social Development, Enugu State.[5] She was a former Dean and HOD of faculty of law University of Nigeria Nsukka[2][4][3] and the founder of the Women Aid Collective (WACOL).[6] She is a recipient of Officer of the Order of Niger (OON) and one of the 2022 BBC 100 Women[7][8][9]
Career
Joy became a professor of Law in 2011.[12] She was part of the United Nations Civil Society Advisory Board on Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse between Feb 2019 to Feb 2022. In 2013, she was selected by the UN Secretary-General as one of the members of the Board of Trustees UN Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking that is managed by the UNODC Vienna, Austria.[12] In Nigeria, she is the Chairperson of the Sexual Assault Referral Network (SARC), a co-chair of Africa Advisory Committee, Human Rights Watch, Africa Division, and a Council Member Human Rights Institute of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Between 2012 and 2015, Ezeilo was nominated as a Commissioner for Gender and Social Development in Enugu State.[11][2] She delivered the 144th Inaugural Lecture of the University of Nigeria on October 11, 2018. It was entitled, "`Are we born free or equal? Law, Justice and Human Rights in Nigeria’."[13] On December 19, 2023, she was appointed a member of the United Nations' Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan, working alongside Mohamed Chande Othman of Tanzania and Mona Rishmawi of Jordan/Switzerland on the mission.[6][14][15]
