Yvonne Anyango Oyieke joined the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human rights and Humanitarian Law in May 2018, from the University of Nairobi where she taught Jurisprudence and Equality Law. She is based at the Regional Office in Nairobi as Programme Officer working with academic cooperation’s under the Ethiopia and Regional Africa Programme, and serves as the gender focal point.
Prior to that she was based at the University of Pretoria in South Africa serving as a Programme Coordinator with the Gender Unit of the Centre for Human Rights and then as a Researcher with the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa.
She holds an LLM in Jurisprudence and an LLB from the University of Pretoria and is currently reading for her doctorate at the same institution, with a focus on the link between law and memory towards the quest for justice in post-authoritarian contexts.