Hauwa Ibrahim

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Hauwa Ibrahim - 2018

Hauwa Ibrahim (* 1968 in Nigeria ) is a Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist .

Life

The daughter of an Islamic mullah was supposed to drop out of school at the age of twelve and get married. She defied her family's wishes and studied law. She then worked until 1996 in the Justice Department of the State of Bauchi in Northern Nigeria. The introduction of the Shari'a in the northern provinces of Nigeria in 1999 led her to work as a defender. She took on numerous pro bono mandates for people who were threatened with the hadd sentence , which earned her international fame. Among other things, she successfully defended Amina Lawal and Safiya Hussaini .

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.abanet.org/women/margaretbrent/pasthonorees.html , accessed January 17, 2010.
  2. http://www.quirinale.it/qrnw/statico/ex-presidenti/Ciampi/dinamico/comunicato.asp?id=26629 , accessed January 17, 2010.
  3. http://www.paris.fr/portail/accueil/Portal.lut?page_id=6593&document_type_id=5&document_id=20675&portlet_id=14989 , accessed January 17, 2010.
  4. Human rights activist Hauwa Ibrahim receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Oldenburg , press release, in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft dated December 8, 2010.