supervision and implementation on women’s rights, issues of health, HIV/AIDS and environmental health.

She has worked with Social and Economic Rights Action Center (SERAC) Ilupeju, Lagos, Nigeria as Senior Legal Officer for over three years undertaking human rights litigation, HIV/AIDS community and capacity building programs, and coordinating their Legal Action Program Network (LAPNET) and Environment for Life Project. With SERAC she also undertook a fact-finding mission to the Niger Delta in Nigeria under which she undertook a Research on Oil and the Niger Delta- perpetuating Poverty Consolidating Powerlessness in June 2003.

She has also worked in conjunction with the Human Rights Centre of the University of Pretoria, South Africa on a  research project on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, as country representative for Nigeria – a study conducted in collaboration with the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)..

She is conversant with African and International human rights instruments and mechanism and participated in sessions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. She has partnered with INTERIGHTS, London, and U.K to support the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights’ promotional activity to promote and protect economic and social rights under the African Charter. Her study of the status of the right to health/HIV/AIDS and access to life saving medications in Africa culminated in her collaborative effort to support the organization of the African Commission’s Seminar on social and economic rights held in Pretoria, South Africa on September 13-17, 2004, where she presented a paper on “HIV/AIDS & the Right of Access to Treatment in Africa.

The Institute for Human Rights Development in Africa [IHRDA] in the Gambia partnered with her on issues of human rights litigation, and she has participated severally at the institute’s Human Rights Litigation workshops as participant and resource person between 2002 and 2005.

She has attended and facilitated training programs, seminars, press conferences and workshops in Nigeria, Africa and Europe on issues such as human rights, HIV/AIDS, Malaria/Vector control and women’s rights. She was also a human rights intern for three months with INTERIGHTS, London, U.K where she worked on, women’s rights, HIV/AIDS, European social charter, Human Rights Training/Advocacy/Litigation and Environmental rights in 2005.

She also worked with Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE), based in Geneva Switzerland as Coordinator of its COHRE -Africa housing rights Project for one year, undertaking fact-finding missions in four West African countries (Nigeria, the Gambia, Senegal, and Sierra-Leone) and also in Morocco and Western Sahara where she implemented the project. She has written series of papers on the rights of the child, human rights, HIV/AIDS, women’s rights, health and environmental rights.

She has also written monitoring and evaluation reports on various projects.

She currently works as the Executive Director of International Center for Environmental Health and Development a Non-Governmental Organization that undertakes health and environmental education, research, HIV/AIDS programs(education, research, empowerment, support and mitigation), advocacy for healthy environment and community development, provision of clean drinking water (bore-hole projects) for communities, vocational training for the development of women, and capacity building for the over-all development of children. She coordinates all programs and defends the rights of the vulnerable and marginalized sections of the Nigerian society such as women, children and people living positively.