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Maria Nassali

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Maria Nassali
BornBwaise, Kampala district, Uganda
🏳️ NationalityUgandan
💼 Occupation
Lawyer, human rights activist
👶 Children4
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Maria Nassali is a Ugandan lawyer, academic, human rights activist and a feminist. She is the vice chairperson board of governors at Nabagereka Foundation.[1]

Background and education[edit]

Maria Nassali was born and raised in Bwaise in Kampala district in Uganda. She completed her Uganda certificate of Education at Mt. Mary's Namagunga and obtained her Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education at Gayaza High School.[2] She accomplished her degree in Law from Makerere University,[3] Uganda, and a master's degree in Law and Development from Warwick University in the United Kingdom . She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Pretoria in South Africa.[4] She is also a Gender and Human Rights specialist.

Career[edit]

Nassali is the former Executive Director of FIDA Uganda.[5][6] Nassali has developed resource materials and undertaken action research aimed at guiding law and policy.[7]

She is the Executive Director of Kituo Cha Katiba,[4] the East African Centre for Constitutional Development. She has been active in the area of Sexual and Reproductive Rights of women and girls, especially ensuring that impunity is not tolerated where Sexual Violence is concerned.

She is also the vice chairperson of Nabagereka Foundation. In 2019, she represented Nabagereka Foundation, as the vice chairperson board of governors at the festival under UNAA (Ugandan North America association). With theme of “Ugandans to celebrate their heritage in New York", an event that run from August 29 to September 2, 2019 and took place at the iconic Grand Hyatt in New York.[8]

Family[edit]

She is a single mother of four children.[9]

Books[edit]

  • Gender and grassroots democracy: documenting women's experiences in decentralisation and local government in Uganda.[10]
  • Beating the human rights drum: applying human rights standards to NGOs' governance.[11]
  • Uganda's 1995 Constitution and the performance of inspectorate of government : assessing the first five years.[12]
  • Mainstreaming human rights into all NGO work.[13]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Nassali, Sarah. "Nabagereka Foundation". Nnbagereaka Development Foundation. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  2. Nassali, Maria. "Episode of "Women and Power" Hosted by Josephine Karungi". NTV Uganda. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  3. Maria, Nassali. "Makerere University School of law". Makerere university School of law. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Nassali, Maria. "Kituo cha katiba consultant". Kituo cha katba. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  5. Maria, Nassali. "Uganda Association of Women Lawyers". Prevent GBV Africa. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  6. Maria, Nassali. "Individual Africa Feminist". African Feminist forum. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  7. Maria, Nassali. "Most widely held works by Maria Nassali". Worldcat Indetities. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  8. Maria, Nassali. "Ugandans to celebrate their heritage in New York". Africans in America. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  9. Nassali, Maria. "An Episode on "Women and Power" hosted by Josephine Karungi". NTV, Uganda. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  10. Nassali, Maria (2000). Gender and grassroots democracy: documenting women's experiences in decentralisation and local government in Uganda- 3 editions in English. Kampala, Uganda: Centre for Basic Research, [2000]. Search this book on
  11. Nassali, Maria (2015). Beating the human rights drum: applying human rights standards to NGOs' governance- 4 editions , in English and held by 14 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. [Pretoria] : Pretoria University Law Press, PULP, 2015. Search this book on
  12. Nassali, Maria (2014). Uganda's 1995 Constitution and the performance of inspectorate of government : assessing the first five years- 1 edition published in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Kampala, Uganda : Centre for Basic Research. Search this book on
  13. Nassali, Maria (2011). Mainstreaming human rights into all NGO work. East African journal of peace & human rights, Vol. 17, No. 1, p. 18-52. Search this book on


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