Ibrahima KANE

Ibrahima Kane is a Special Advisor to the Executive Director of the Open Society Foundation-Africa, responsible for advocacy on the African Union. He is a qualified lawyer in Senegal and France. Before joining the Open Society Foundation in 2007, he served as Senior Legal Officer in charge of the Africa Program at INTERIGHTS for 10 years. As a founding member of RADDHO, a Senegalese human rights organization, Kane led a program focused on public education and women’s human rights in five West African countries—Cape Verde, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Senegal—for six years.

Ibrahima has a strong interest in economic, social, and cultural rights, women’s rights, migrant and refugee rights, nationality issues on the African continent, and the pursuit of justice through regional and international mechanisms. Over the past 15 years, Kane has worked closely with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Union Commission, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the ECOWAS Court of Justice, and the East African Court of Justice, advocating before these bodies.

He is an author and has coordinated the drafting and publication of several reports and articles on the African Union, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the protection of human rights by regional economic community bodies. Additionally, he was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Essex from 2005 to 2011.