Allen Sophia is the
Director and co founder of IHRN East Africa. She is a human rights
advocate working with various stakeholders including Government
institutions, international agencies, development partners, civil
society and the private sector to integrate human rights based
approaches in development and humanitarian work.
Allen has worked as an
independent human rights practitioner, as an Advisor to the Director of
Public Prosecutions, and development partners in Uganda and as a
Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Law, Makerere University.
She led the
team that concluded the development of a five year strategic plan for
the Justice Law and Order Sector and has been instrumental in
highlighting key human rights issues (e.g. torture and poor conditions
in prisons, low levels of human rights awareness) and developing
strategies and implementation plans for by responsible
stakeholders.
Allen holds an LLM
from the University of Manchester, UK and a Diploma (distinction) in
Human Rights from the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague, the
Netherlands.