Interview with Joy Ngozi Ezeilo
dc.contributor.author | Global Feminisms Project | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-27T14:46:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-27T14:46:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-11 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/163356 | |
dc.description | The Global Feminisms Project (https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/globalfeminisms/) is a collaborative international oral history project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements, and academic women's studies in sites around the world. The current archive includes interviews with women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in China, India, Nicaragua, Poland, and the United States. We are currently working on adding interviews from Brazil and Russia. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the U.S. site research team. Our international collaborators include: - Laboratório de História Oral e Imagem - UFF (the Laboratory of Oral History and Images at the Federal Fluminense University in Rio de Janeiro) and Núcleo de História, Memória e Documento - NUMEM (the Center for History, Memory, and Documentation at the Federal State University in Rio de Janeiro), BRAZIL - China Women's University in Beijing, CHINA - SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, INDIA - Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres de Nicaragua (Autonomous Women's Movement), NICARAGUA - Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, POLAND | |
dc.description.abstract | Dr. Joy Ngozi Ezeilo is professor of law and the dean of the Law School at the University of Nigeria (UNN). She has been the lead professor of the "Women, Children, and the Law" class at the UNN since 1997. A lawyer, activist, and feminist scholar, Dr. Ezeilo was appointed the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons between 2008 and 2014, during which time she travelled to several countries to determine the causes, mechanisms, and scope of human trafficking. She is an active member of the civil society movement in Nigeria, where she founded the Women’s Aid Collective (WACOL), a not-for-profit that works to promote and protect the rights of women and young people. She is the founder and moderator of the West African Women’s Rights Coalition (WAWORC). Dr. Ezilo has served as a consultant and trainer in human rights, gender issues, and governance and conflict resolution to many international and national organizations including the Nigerian Judicial Institute (NJI), UNDP, UNIFEM, UNICEF, USAID, UNFPA, the Federal Ministry of Health, the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs (MDG Fund), OSIWA, CODESRIA, Partners for Justice (formerly International Human Rights Law Group), the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, Abuja, Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), Center for Democracy and Development, West Africa (CDD), among others. | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Global Feminisms Nigerian Site Interview | |
dc.subject | Global Feminism | |
dc.subject | Feminists | |
dc.subject | Nigerian Feminists | |
dc.title | Interview with Joy Ngozi Ezeilo | |
dc.type | Video | |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Women's and Gender Studies | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Institute for Research on Women and Gender | |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | |
dc.identifier.videostream | https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/1038472/sp/103847200/embedIframeJs/uiconf_id/33084471/partner_id/1038472?autoembed=true&entry_id=1_90nuz7u4&playerId=kaltura_player_01&cache_st=1455309475&width=400&height=330&flashvars[streamerType]=auto | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163356/2/Ezeilo_Nigeria_Annotated_Final.docx | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/163356/1/Ezeilo960x540.mp4 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Global Feminisms Project |
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