Founding and Leadership
UAF-Africa was founded by Betty Kaari Murungi, a lawyer specialising in the areas of women's human rights, gender, and constitutionalism and governance. In addition to serving as UAF-Africa's director, she has been the legal advisor to the Women's Human Rights Program at Rights and Democracy in Montreal, Canada. Ms. Murungi has fought to ensure that the International Criminal Court and the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda include a gender perspective in their work. In 2003, Ms. Murungi received The Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear from Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki for her achievements.
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