Ibrahima KANE

Ibrahima Kane is the Special Advisor to the Executive Director of the Open Society Foundation-Africa, responsible for advocacy on the African Union and a lawyer qualified in Senegal and France. Before joining the Open Society Foundation in 2007, he was a 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 is particularly interested 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 fifteen 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, and has advocated before these bodies. He is an author and has coordinated the writing and publication of several reports and articles on the African Union, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and human rights protection by regional economic community bodies. He was also an associate professor at the University of Essex Law School from 2005 to 2011.