Liza Sekaggya

Liza Sekaggya

Human Rights Officer at Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Ms. Sekaggya has worked for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) as a Human Rights Officer for 10 years. Currently with the National Institutions Regional Mechanisms and Civil Society Section, her primarily areas of responsibility include support to establishing and strengthening national human rights institutions in Europe; she is also the OHCHR focal point on Cooperation with Regional Human Rights Mechanisms, discrimination, gender and economic social and cultural rights. Prior to working with OHCHR, she worked with Save the Children Norway in Uganda, as the Program Officer -Social Protection focusing on child abuse and children in armed conflict and was the focal point in East and Southern Africa for the UN study on violence against. She experience in death row litigation and she worked with an NGO in New Orleans, Louisiana (USA) as Legal Researcher, focusing on appeal cases. Ms. Sekaggya has also worked as a Legal Officer in the past with NGOs, handling complaints and providing legal support to child victims of abuse, juvenile offenders, petty offenders and refugees in both the UK and Africa. Ms .Sekaggya holds a Bachelors of Law (LL.B) degree and a Masters in Human Rights Law (LL.M) from Nottingham University UK.