Josephine Odumakin is a Nigerian human rights activist. She has handled
over 2,000 cases of violations of women's rights in the past 20years,
which included cases of extra judicial practices committed by government
security agencies against women. Her advocacy led her to be arrested
and detained seventeen times during the dictatorship of General Ibrahim
Badamosi Babangida’s regime.
Dr. Odumakin is currently the
Executive Director of the Institute of Human Rights and Democratic
Studies; President of Women Arise for Change Initiative; Chairman, Task
Force of the Citizen Forum; Spokesperson, Coalition of Civil Society
Organizations; and President, Centre for Participatory Democracy. More
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