Dr. Zahara Nampewo

Dr. Zahara Nampewo

Dr. Zahara Nampewo is a lawyer and human rights expert with over 20 years of experience. She is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean at Makerere University School of Law, where she has taught since 2006, covering Health Law, International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights, and Gender Law. She holds a PhD from Emory University, an LLM in International Human Rights from the University of Nottingham, and an Advanced Diploma in Human Rights Protection from Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Widely published on gender, sexuality, health, human rights, and disability, she serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Human Rights Practice and the Mawazo Journal. She has previously worked with DANIDA and UN Women, and consulted for UNODC, the Global Fund, USAID, OSIEA, and the Uganda Human Rights Commission. In 2019, she won the Uganda Law Society's Women in Law Award for Female Lawyer Academic.

Dr. Zahara Nampewo is a lawyer and human rights expert with over 20 years of experience. She is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean at Makerere University School of Law.

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