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Accessibility & LanguageFavour Offia
Favour Offia
Name - Favour Offia
Email - f.offia1@nuigalway.ie
PhD Research Topic - Rights and Regulation of labour migration in Kenya and Uganda: A critical Third World Approach to human trafficking on the East Africa – Middle East migration corridor.
Supervisor - Professor Siobhán Mullally
Research Interests - Migration, Human Trafficking, Labour Migration, Refugee Law, Peace Operations, International Humanitarian Law
Academic Background
- Bsc International Law and Diplomacy - 2014
- LLM Peace Operations, Humanitarian Law and Conflict - 2018
Relevant Experience
- Community Service Volunteer - National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and IDPs (NCFRMI) Lagos Zonal Office, Nigeria. 201
- Legal Research and Administrative Assitiant - Department of International and Comparative Law, Federal Ministry of Justice, Abuja, Nigeria, 2014 - 2015.
- Campaigner - Oxfam Ireland 2019
- Research Assistant - Irish Centre for Human Rights 2019 - 2020.
Publications
- Favour Offia, Human Trafficking in Uganda: Law, Policy and Practice, (2020), Policy Brief, Irish Centre for Human Rights Working Paper. NUI Galway, Ireland.
- Favour Offia, The Impact of COVID-19 on Human Trafficking in Uganda, (2020), Policy Brief, Irish Centre for Human Rights Working Paper. NUI Galway, Ireland.
- Favour Offia, Child Trafficking in Uganda, (2020), Policy Brief, Irish Centre for Human Rights Working Paper. NUI Galway, Ireland.
- Favour Offia, Human Trafficking in Kenya, (2020), Policy Brief, Irish Centre for Human Rights Working Paper. NUI Galway, Ireland.
Blogs
- Favour Offia, “How Uganda has dealt with Human Trafficking” RTÉ Brainstorm, 20th February 2020.
- Favour Offia, “20 Years After Palermo Protocol: Towards a stronger East African regional anti-trafficking framework” Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, 12th May 2020.
- Favour Offia, “The 2020 US TIP Report: An Assessment of Uganda” Irish Centre for Human Rights Blog, 6th July 2020.
Conferences
- 13th Trinity College Dublin Law Student Colloquium - 6th February 2021: Examining the implementation of Uganda's Labour Externalisation Policy as a response to transnational human trafficking for labour exploitation along the Uganda- GCC migration corridor.
- 20th Annual Irish Centre for Human Rights Doctoral Seminar 10th - 14th May 2021: An Assessment of the Impact of Uganda's Labour Externalisation Programme on Countering Transnational Human Trafficking for Labour Exploitation along the Uganda - Middle East labour migration corridor.
Scholarships - PhD Studentship (Established Professor of Law Start-up Fund) NUI Galway, Irish Centre for Human Rights. October 2020 – September 2021.
Publications
Zoi Aliozi, ‘4 Poems’, Cottage Reader, Journal of Philosophy, Art and Culture, 2013.
‘Ti Esti State-terrorism’. Bajo Palabra Journal of Philosophy, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Época II. Nº 8, Año 2013.
‘Zero Dark Thirty, A propaganda film’, Film critic, The Daily Journalist, November 2013.
‘Human rights research methodology, and its multidisciplinary nature’, Nordik Institute for human rights, Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming in 2013.
‘A Critique of State-terrorism’, The Crit, A Critical Legal Studies Journal, University of Idaho College of Law, Vol. 5, Issue 3, Fall 2012.
‘Idealism’s not dead’, E.MAgine all the people: E.MA Yearbook, E.I.U.C. Press, Fall 2007.
‘Human Rights; Human What?’, Homo Nomicarius Law Journal, Democritus University P., 2004.
