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Lillian Chenwi
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Dr Lilian Chenwi is a Senior Researcher at the Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape and Head of the Centre’s Socio-Economic Rights Project. Dr Chenwi has presented guest lectures on socio-economic rights and co-convened a module on criminal justice and the constitution for LLM students at the University of the Western Cape. She has also presented lectures on socio-economic rights at the University of the Western Cape and University of Pretoria. She has a record of publications on socio-economic rights, housing rights, as well as fair trial rights, the death penalty and human rights in Africa. She has assisted in various capacities in the editing of scholarly journals on human rights law and is the Editor of the ESR Review and is on the editorial board of Housing and ESC Rights Law Quarterly. Dr Chenwi has been involved in policy and law reform processes in the area of human rights and litigation in the area of socio-economic rights, and housing rights in particular. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the International NGO Coalition for an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Through this membership she participated in the negotiations and drafting of the Protocol at both the African regional and United Nations levels.
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South Africa
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Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape