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BIOGRAPHYKuukuwa Andam is a lawyer, human rights activist and avid blogger. She is qualified to practice law in Ghana and she holds an LL.M Degree from Cornell University, as well as an LL.B from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology.Kuukuwa has had a diverse professional experience which has included clerking with the Chief Justice of Ghana (the head of Ghana’s Judiciary), working as a Public Defender at the Government of Ghana’s Legal Aid Agency and providing legal advice to indigent persons through Bay Area Legal Aid in San Francisco, USA. She is a director on the board of Center for Popular Education and Human Rights Ghana (CEPHERG), a human rights organization which conducts advocacy behalf of Ghanaian sexual minorities.Her current research focuses on the rights of female sexual minorities (including lesbians, bisexual women and transwomen) in Ghana. In this regard, she examines the extent to which Ghanaian law criminalizes sexual minorities, as well as, the human rights abuses that female sexual minorities encounter. ................
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