Hauwa joins Global Information, Democracy Commission

A Nigerian professor, Hauwa Ibrahim, has been appointed as a member of the Paris-based Global Information and Democracy Commission.
According to a report by Arnaud Froger, Head of the African Desk, Reporters Without Borders, the Global Information and Democracy Commission, which is co-chaired by Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi and Reporters Without Borders Secretary-General, Christophe Deloire, has Nobel Economics Laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen; Peruvian Novelist and Nobel Literature Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa as members.
In a letter by the co-chair, Shirin Ebadi, the independent panel is being created to address the political control of information in a globalized public space, the influence of private interests, and the growing power of corporate actors who escape democratic control and the undermining of quality journalism.
Ebadi said the initiative’s ultimate goal is to garner international commitment by governments, private-sector companies, civil society representatives and the leaders of several democratic countries that will lead to a declaration and International Pledge on Information and Democracy.
Prof Hauwa Ibrahim has been a Visiting Professor at Saint Louis University School of Law and Stonehill College. She is also a Fellow at Yale University, a Radcliffe fellow, and a fellow at both the Human Rights Program and the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard University, USA.
Professor Ibrahim who hails from Bauchi State, is a Human Rights Lawyer and 2005 Laureate of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize (Nigeria).