Dr Innih Archibong is a widely acclaimed human rights attorney with decades of legal practice and human rights activism experience. He is perhaps Nigeria’s foremost paralegal instructor, providing basic legal education to staff, oficers
and volunteers of civil society organisations as well as corporate and public institutions on how to handle quasi-legal situations before they balloon into a legal crisis. A graduate of Columbia University’s Human Rights Advocates Program and Fellow of the International Center for Transitional Justice, he is a certiied Human Rights Educator (South Asia Learning Institution for Human Rights). He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Human Rights and has taught law at both the University of Uyo and in numerous informal settings across Nigeria and the world. He holds a PhD in Human Rights Law from the University of Uyo.
He established Liberty Now, convened People United for Environmental Justice, joined and became one of the leaders at Transition Monitoring Group, Citizens Forum for Constitutional Reform, Civil Society Coalition on Poverty Eradication, Earthday Network, and a member of PEDEP, among other social justice leaning initiatives.
His work has led to policy changes in key areas including in the oil and gas industry and in Criminal Justice Administration where he was a founding member of the National NGO Coalition on Penal Reform and later worked with HURILAWS to domesticate the Administration of Criminal Justice Law in Cross River State. Dr Archibong was one of those at the forefront of Demilitarization, Demobilization and Rehabilitation (DDR) of Niger Delta militants in the early 2000s. In 2005 he co-facilitated the training of some 700 repentant Niger Delta militants at Sherre Hills, Jos. Later that year he led an international campaign to end gas laring by oil majors in the Niger Delta, attracting the support of the African Institute at Columbia University, New York and the collaboration of Soledad Mills, now CEO at Equitable Origin. Dr Archibong is a happy family man and loves reading and goling. Otherwise, he divides his time between human rights research and advocacy and the business of law at which he is an accomplished practitioner.
