Sarah Bireete is a
Ugandan
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Population
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Lawyer
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,
human rights defender
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and
political activist
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who is the founding partner and
Executive Director for Center for Constitutional Governance(CCG), a
Non Government Organization(NGO) and also
Chairperson
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East and Horn of Africa Elections Observers Network.
Career
Bireete is currently the
Executive Director for Center for Constitutional Governance(CCG) the
NGO
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she was its deputy executive director between 2011 and 2019 and also
Chairperson
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, East and Horn of Africa Elections Observers Network . She served as a National Coordinator for the
International Conference of the Great Lakes Region under the
ministry of Foreign Affairs
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. Prior to 2011, she worked as a
public defender
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at the Public Defenders Association of Uganda. She is a
human rights activist
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,
lawyer
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and partner at Dickens Kamugisha and Co. Advocates in
Kampala Uganda. She is a