Godwin Onuoha
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Caste Discrimination/Persecution
- Child Soldiers
- Deportees/Criminal Deportees
- Document Authentication
- Ethnic Discrimination/Persecution
- Ex-Combatant Reintegration
- FGM/FGC
- Forced Conscription
- Forced Marriage
- Gang-Related Violence/Non-State Actors
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Journalist Persecution
- Land Tenure Dispute
- LGBTQ
- Likelihood Of Destitution/Homelessness
- Political Persecution
- Prison Conditions
- Religious Discrimination/Persecution
- Risk Of Retaliation
- Torture
- Trafficking
- Tribal Discrimination/Persecution
About Godwin Onuoha
Dr. Onuoha is a HIPAA Certified expert witness who has written several expert witness reports and opinions, and testified in immigration evaluation and immigration detention hearings over the years. His expertise spans asylum, human rights and human security claims, persecution and discrimination based on political associations (including party politics, social and environmental activism), religion, ethnicity, identity, customs and culture (gender-based persecution ranging from forced marriage, child marriage, polygamy and to FGM, among other gender-related cases), and self-determination cases of people fleeing violence and conflict from West African countries with similar dynamics.
As an African social anthropologist, he has taught and designed courses in American universities bordering on Female genital cutting, Gang-related violence, General country knowledge, LGBTQ+ issues, Political associations, Race/ethnicity, Religion, Trafficking, Violence against children, Violence against women. He has extensive experience on a variety of theorical, epistemological and practical cultural problems in African societies.
