OLIVIA is a Private Legal Practitioner with over 20 years of experience. She is a human rights, peace advocate, gender activist and a trainer of trainers. She holds an LL.B in English Private Law from the University of Yaoundé and an LLM in International Law from the University of London. She is a 2004 Chevening Scholar. She is the Legal Advice of WOPEN. She is the coordinator of Crystal Law Chambers and CEO of the Action by Women Lawyers for the Legal Protection of Human Rights (AWLEP). She was the first woman to set-up independent private legal practice in the NW Region. She has worked in diverse rural and urban communities in promoting the effective participation of women in peace processes. She provides conflict prevention and protection services, pro-bono legal advice to and representation of vulnerable individuals/groups along the judicial chain, mediation of several cases and out of court settlements. She organizes educative talks, sensitization/advocacy campaigns and outreach programs. “She believes in good governance, human rights, independent and accountable institutions”.
