Ibrahima Kane is a Special adviser to the Executive Director of the Open Society Foundation-Africa in charge of the Africa Union Advocacy and a qualified lawyer in Senegal and France. Prior to joining the Open Society Foundation in 2007, he was a senior lawyer in charge of the Africa program at INTERIGHTS for 10 years.

As a founding member of RADDHO, a Senegalese human rights organization, Kane directed a program that focused on public education and women’s human rights in five West African countries—Cape Verde, the Republic of Guinea, the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Senegal—for six years.

Ibrahima has particular interest in economic, social, and cultural rights; women’s rights; rights of migrants and refugees; nationality issues on the African continent and the pursuit of justice through regional and international mechanisms. Kane has collaborated closely with and litigated before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the African Union Commission, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Court of Justice of the East African Community (EAC) for the last fifteen years. He is an author and coordinated the drafting and publication of a number of reports and articles on the Africa Union, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the protection of human rights by regional economic community bodies. He has also been an associate lecturer at the law faculty of the University of Essex from 2005 to 2011).