Auwal Musa Rafsanjani is a Nigerian civil rights activist and the Executive Director of the
Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre. He is the chairman, Board of
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members a ...
, Nigeria.
Early life and education
Rafsanjani was born in Kano and got a degree in political science at the
Bayero University Kano
The Bayero University Kano (BUK) is a university situated in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria. It was founded in 1975, when it was renamed from Bayero University College and upgraded from university college to university. It is the first university i ...
. In 1992, he became the Assistant-General Secretary of
National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS).
He got married in 2001 and gave birth to his first son in 2003.
Advocacy
Rafsanjani has been a member of
Civil Liberties Organization and a member of
The Center for Democracy and Human Rights. He was a founding member of
Campaign for Democracy
The Campaign for Democracy (CD) is a Nigerian civil society group that advocates for greater democracy in Nigeria. The group was first organized in the early 1990s to demand an end to the country's military dictatorship. The coalition organized de ...
, led by late
Beko Ransome Kuti,
Democratic Alternative, also a member and coordinator of
United Action for Democracy (UAD) led by
Olisa Agbakoba.
In 2005, he founded The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), a non-governmental, non-profit civil society organization with the primary mission to promote democratic governance and deepen democracy through legislative advocacy, capacity building, research, and information sharing.
He is a public commentator of Newspapers, Radio and TV shows: Al-Jazeera, CNN, BBC, NTA, AIT, TVC, Channel TV, VOA, Radio Germany, Radio France and Radio Iran, FRCN, among others in Hausa and English languages.
Apart from presentation of papers at national and international events, Auwal Musa has written several articles published across national dailies and international journals.
He also advocates for women and girl child that were forced to hard labour that there should be policies and framework in place to curb the problem and also providing job security and safety for them.
Auwal Musa was a delegate at the National Conference in Nigeria 2014 representing Civil Society Groups.
He was elected as the chairman of Transitioning Monitoring Group in 2021.
References
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Nigerian human rights activists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)