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Yvonne Nana Afua Idun
Dr Yvonne Nana Afua Idun is a senior lecturer in law and chairperson of Public Law at the Kenyatta University School of Law in Nairobi, Kenya. Her previous experiences include bein...view moreDr Yvonne Nana Afua Idun is a senior lecturer in law and chairperson of Public Law at the Kenyatta University School of Law in Nairobi, Kenya. Her previous experiences include being a programme officer at the UN University-International Leadership Institute in Jordan and an environmental policy analyst at the UN University-Institute for Natural Resources in Africa, based in Ghana. She has also lectured and conducted research at the Africa Institute of South Africa, the Universities of Cape Town and the Witwatersrand in South Africa, and Yale Law School in the USA.
She has undertaken consultancy assignments with the UN Women in the Dominican Republic; the UNDP offices in USA, Benin, and Liberia; the UNIDO and IUCN offices in Ghana; as well as the UNECA in Ethiopia. As part of these professional experiences, she has translated policy briefs, reports, and legal documents from French into English.
Dr Idun holds a BA in law and French from the University of Ghana, a certificate in French language proficiency and civilization from the Institut Supérieur Privé in France, an LLM in the law of international trade from the University of Cape Town, and a PhD in international environmental law and the law of international trade from the University of Cape Town.
Her current activities include being a founding member of the Alliance for Migration, Leadership and Development, an NGO in Senegal. She is also an editorial advisor of the board of advisors of the African Journal of Clinical Legal Education and Access to Justice and a member of the Réseau de Femmes Africaines et Espagnoles pour un Monde Meilleur in the Canary Islands, the Mother’s Mercy Home orphanage project in Limuru, Kenya, and the Population Environment Research Network at CIESIN Columbia University in the USA.
Dr Idun has authored books and articles within the field of gender, trade, and environment. She has a keen interest in rural development, refugee protection, and poverty alleviation.view less
Books by Yvonne Nana Afua Idun
Training Africa's Youth in Waste Management and Climate Change: A Textbook for the Youth in Africa's Primary and Junior Secondary Schools