Managing Partner – NBO.
LAWRENCE MUTE.
Lawrence is a Managing Partner of Mute & Songa Advocates LLP.
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About Lawrence.
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Lawrence is a Managing Partner at Mute & Songa Advocates LLP., the Kenyan Office of Power Law Africa.
Lawrence is an accomplished public interest lawyer, researcher, and practitioner with 26 years’ experience working at the subnational, national, continental, and international levels. He focuses on advisory, research, and training in the areas of human rights, disability justice, gender justice, and democracy and governance, and has extensive experience in international and African human rights mechanisms, the rights of persons with disabilities, women’s rights and gender equality, the prevention of torture, freedom of expression and access to information, and the rights of sexual and gender minorities.
During his extensive career, Lawrence has provided strategic and technical support as a consultant for state, regional, and international agencies, including the Government of Kenya, the Government of Somalia, the African Union, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Disability Alliance, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, the Network of African National Human Rights Institutions, the National Democratic Institute, the State University of New York, Equality Now, the Centre for Reproductive Rights, the Kenya Human Rights Commission, the United Disabled Persons of Kenya, and Amnesty Kenya.
Lawrence has served as the Vice Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa, the Chairperson of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture in Africa, and as a member of the Working Group on Older Persons and Persons with Disabilities in Africa. He has also served as a Commissioner with the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.
In addition, Lawrence has chaired or served on the boards of intergovernmental and civil society organisations, including the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Torture, the Human Rights Initiative of the Open Society Foundations, the Open Society for Eastern Africa, Article 19 and its East Africa Chapter, Kituo cha Katiba, and UHAI – the East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative.
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