Chidi Odinkalu

Chidi Anselm Odinkalu (an haife ta a ranar 12 ga watan Yunin shekara ta 1968) 'yar Najeriya ce mai fafutukar kare hakkin dan adam, lauya, farfesa kuma marubuciya. Ya kasance tsohon shugaban Hukumar Kare Hakkin Dan Adam ta Najeriya (Nijeriya) kuma kwanan nan ya kasance babban manajan tawagar Shirin Afirka na Open Society Justice Initiative . 

Ya yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da shawara ga Gidauniyar Ford New York, Bankin Duniya, Tarayyar Afirka, Majalisar Duniya don Manufofin 'Yancin Dan Adam, Geneva; da sauransu da yawa. Agusta 2021, Makarantar Shari'a da diflomasiyya ta Fletcher a Jami'ar Tufts ta nada Odinkalu Farfesa a Dokar 'Yancin Dan Adam.

A cikin 2018, ya rubuta wani littafi mai taken Too Good to Die tare da Ayisha Osori . 

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Odinkalu a Ihiala, Jihar Anambra ga malamai biyu: Augustine Chukwuma Odinkalu da Anthonia Ihunna Odinkalu . Ya fito ne daga Orlu, Jihar Imo . 

 Ilimi 
Odinkalu ya sami digiri na shari'a (LLB) a Jami'ar Jihar Imo a shekarar 1987 kuma an kira shi zuwa kotun a shekarar 1988. Ya fito ne a matsayin dalibi mafi kyau na Makarantar Nazarin Shari'a, Jami'ar Jihar Imo a shekarar 1987 kuma ya lashe kyautar Cif FRA Williams don dalibi mafi kyawun a cikin Rubuce-rubucen Shari'a da Sufuri a shekarar 1988. Ya sami digiri na biyu a fannin shari'a a Jami'ar Legas a 1990  kuma yana da Ph.D a fannin doka daga Makarantar Tattalin Arziki da Kimiyya ta Siyasa ta London.  Odinkalu farfesa ce mai ziyara a Makarantar Shari'a da diflomasiyya ta Fletcher da Makarantar Shariʼa ta Harvard . 

 Gwagwarmaya da aiki 
Ya kasance tsohon shugaban Hukumar Kare Hakkin Dan Adam ta Kasa (Nijeriya) kuma a halin yanzu babban jami'in shari'a na Afirka, Open Society Justice Initiative . Ya zama mataimakin malami a Kwalejin Shari'a, Jami'ar Ibadan tsakanin 1988 da 1989 kuma ya yi aiki tare da Kungiyar 'Yancin Bil'adama a matsayin darektan ayyukan da tsarawa. A lokacin zaben shugaban kasa na 12 ga Yuni, 1993 a Najeriya, an sami matsin lamba a kan masu fafutukar kare hakkin dan adam ciki har da shi bisa ga rawar da ya taka a wannan lokacin. Ya bar Najeriya zuwa Ingila, inda ya zama jami'in shari'a na Afirka, INTERIGHTS tsakanin Yuli 1998 da Fabrairu 2003.  A shekara ta 1998, Ofishin Jakadancin Majalisar Dinkin Duniya a Saliyo ya nada shi a matsayin mai ba da shawara kan 'yancin dan adam. A watan Fabrairun shekara ta 2003, an nada Odinkalu a matsayin babban jami'in shari'a na Afirka don Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI).  

 Manazarta 

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Rukuni:Haihuwan 1968