Josephine Ndagire
Countries of Expertise
Specialties
- Child Protection/Child Abuse
- Child Soldiers
- Citizenship/Statelessness/Nationality
- Deportees/Criminal Deportees
- Ex-Combatant Reintegration
- FGM/FGC
- Forced Marriage
- Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Domestic Violence/Family Violence
- Government/State Actor Persecution
- Prison Conditions
- Torture
- Trafficking
About Josephine Ndagire
Dr. Josephine Ndagire is an accomplished academic and human rights activist with over 18 years of dedicated service at grassroots, national, and international levels. She has served as an Expert Member on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Committee on the Prevention of Torture in Africa and currently chairs the Board of Directors at the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (Uganda). She also serves on the Councils of Penal Reform International (United Kingdom) and the International Society for Human Rights (Germany). Renowned for her incisive legal insight and leadership, Dr. Ndagire has featured on BBC Newsday to discuss pressing global justice issues, including migrant deportations and the ICJ reparations case DRC vs. Uganda. Her work has significantly influenced human rights advocacy, legal reform, and justice systems across Africa.
Dr. Ndagire has provided expert consultation to leading international organizations, including UN Women, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, IGAD, and the International Development Law Organization. She lectures at the School of Law, Makerere University, and has previously held senior roles at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, and the Max Planck Institute. Author of National Redress on ‘Gendered’ International Crimes (2015) and several scholarly works, she holds a Doctor of Juridical Sciences (SJD) from Emory University, an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Notre Dame, and an LLB from Makerere University.
