• Fordham Law
<
• Faculty
<
• Full-time
<
• K - P
<
• Chi Mgbako
<
• Selected Publications

Selected Publications

• Engaging Legal Dualism: Paralegal Organizations and Customary Law in Sierra Leone and Liberia in THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN CUSTOMARY LAW, Cambridge University Press, Jeanmarie Fenrich, Paolo Galizzi, and Tracy Higgins, eds. (with Kristina Scurry Baehr) (2011)

ARTICLES:

• Witchcraft Accusations and Human Rights: Case Studies from Malawi, George Washington International Law Review (with Katherine Glenn) (forthcoming 2012)
• Sex Work and Human Rights in Africa, 33 Fordham International Law Journal 1178 (with Laura A. Smith) (2010)
• Penetrating the Silence in Sierra Leone: A Blueprint for the Eradication of Female Genital Mutilation, 23 Harvard Human Rights Journal 111 (with Meghna Saxena, Anna Cave, Nasim Farjad, Helen Shin) (2010)
• Forced Eviction and Resettlement in Cambodia: Case Studies from Phnom Penh, 9 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 39 (with Anna Cave, Ernie Gao, Elizabeth Joynes, Jessica Mikhailevich) (2010)
• Silencing the Ethiopian Courts: Non-Judicial Constitutional Review and its Impact on Human Rights, 32 Fordham International Law Journal 259 (with Sarah Braasch, Aron Degol, Melisa Morgan, Felice Segura and Teramed Tezera) (2008)
• We Will Still Live: Confronting Stigma and Discrimination Against Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi, 31 Fordham International Law Journal 528 (with Jeanmarie Fenrich and Tracy Higgins) (2008)
• "Ingando" Solidarity Camps: Reconciliation and Political Indoctrination in Post-Genocide Rwanda, 18 Harvard Human Rights Journal 201 (2005)

REPORTS:

• Exporting Confusion: U.S. Foreign Policy as an Obstacle to the Implementation of Ethiopia's Liberalized Abortion Law, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice (with Tashmin Ali, David Ashley, Ndidi Igboeli, Aron Degol, Fikraeb Gintamo, and Maedot Tesfaye) (2010)
• Rights-Based Sex Worker Empowerment Guidelines: An Alternative HIV/AIDS Intervention Approach to the 100% Condom Use Programme, Sampada Gramin Mahila Sanstha (SANGRAM) (with Meghan Gabriel, Laura Garr, and Laura A. Smith) (2008)
• Nigeria's Faltering Federal Experiment, International Crisis Group (2006)
• Liberia: Resurrecting the Justice System, International Crisis Group (2006)
• Front Line Rwanda: Disappearances, Arrests, Threats, Intimidation and Co-option of Human Rights Defenders 2001 - 2004, Frontline: The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (with Bridgette Toy-Cronin and Lars Waldorf)
(2005)

COMMENTARY:

• Criminalization of prostitution as a violation of sex workers' right to health, IntlLawGrrls (December 17, 2011)
• Police Abuse of Sex Workers: A Global Reality, Widely Ignored, RH Reality Check (December 15, 2011)
• Africa's LGBT Rights Movement, The Huffington Post (May 3, 2011)
• The Architecture of Maternal Death, RH Reality Check (with Tarek Meguid) (April 4, 2011)
• Aiding Children Accused of Witchcraft, The Huffington Post (March 14, 2011)
• Witchcraft Legal Aid in Africa, The International Herald Tribune/Global Opinion section of NYTimes.com (February 17, 2011)
• Honoring the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, The Huffington Post (December 14, 2010)
• Sierra Leone Youth Call for End to Female Genital Mutilation, The Huffington Post (November 26, 2010)
• International Donors Must Fund Breakthrough Female-Controlled HIV Prevention Gel, openDemocracy (October 7, 2010)
• Three African Vignettes: Nigeria, Benin, Rwanda, Afrik-News (September 15, 2010)
• Africa's Women Turn 50, The Huffington Post (August 20, 2010)
• Rwanda: Media Censorship Will Breed Resentment, allAfrica.com (August 11, 2010)
• Ethiopia: U.S. foreign policy and unsafe abortion in Africa, openDemocracy (August 3, 2010)
• Rwanda: Gov't 'Manipulates' Genocide Memory, allAfrica.com (July 21, 2010)
• A call for sex workers' rights in Africa, Pambazuka News (June 24, 2010)