publications
Equality is as much a question of access as it is about fairness. Access to opportunities is crucial to levelling the field between the genders. Access, more importantly, provides that a person’s circumstances do not detrimentally affect their chances for a better life or in the reverse disproportionately confer an advantage that perpetuates inequality.
Osai Ojigho
- A call for holistic legal assistance for women pursuing justice in Africa, IAWL Blog 19 July 2022
- One Death Too Many: The High Cost of Domestic Violence, This Day Lawyer 26 April 2022
- “Litigating Gender Discrimination Cases Before the ECOWAS Court and The African Court,” in Dawuni, Jarpa (Ed), Gender and Judging across Africa: Process, Progress and Prospects (Routledge 2021)
- The #ENDSARS Protests and the Demand for Improved Policing System in Nigeria, This Day 27 October 2021
- “Litigating Gender-Based Violence and Discrimination - The Dorothy Njemenze Case,” in Litigating the Maputo Protocol: A Compendium of Strategies and Approaches for Defending the Rights of Women and Girls in Africa, Equality Now, October 2021
- COVID-19: Shifting Dynamics of Women’s Realities and Women’s Rights, IAWL Blog 14 April 2020
- Legal, human rights argument against Social Media Bill, Vanguard Newspapers 19 March 2020
- The Time is now – address sexual violence, This Day Lawyer 9 July 2019
- “Beyond Kenya: The impact of Article 9 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa on women’s political participation in Africa,” in J. Biegon (Ed), Gender Equality and Political Processes in Kenya (2016) Strathmore University Press, International Commission of Jurists, and National Gender and Equality Commission
- Nigeria: The Bolstering of Boko Haram versus the States’ Response, Conflict Studies Quarterly Issue 15, April 2016, pp. 28-41 with Charles Nyuykonge
- Human Rights Protection in Africa: Special Focus on Rights of Women in African Year on Women’s Rights. Special edition of AU ECHO July 2016
- Local funds for local issues: raising the bar, Open Global Rights, February 12, 2014
- An African Court Against Impunity: (re)building the African Court on Human \and Peoples’ Rights African Regional Forum Newsletter Vol. 7 No. 3 (December 2013)
- For the Next Generation: A Legacy of Rape and Incest (THISDAY Lawyer February 19, 2013 p. xv)
- The Pursuit for Gender Parity in the Composition of African Court Judges, in Pambazuka News Issue 597, September 13, 2012
- Strengthening Legal and Social Responses to Domestic Violence (THISDAY Lawyer September 20, 2011)
- Scrape Her Head and Lay Her Bare - Widowhood Practices and Cultures, Violence is Not Our Culture October 29, 2011
- Prohibiting Domestic Violence through Legislation, Agenda No.82 2009 p.86
- Legislating Domestic Violence in Nigeria, Our Rights (FEMNET, Jul-Dec 2009) p.8
- Evaluating the application, implementation and enforcement of International human rights instruments and norms in Nigeria [2005] Commonwealth Law Bulletin Vol.31 No.2 p103-116