HOPE BEHIND BARS WINS 2023 WAISLITZ GLOBAL CITIZEN CHOICE AWARD

Joycy Lo

Founder of Hope Behind Bars Africa and a Nigerian Human Rights lawyer, Funke Adeoye has been announced as one of the winners of the 2023 Waislitz Global Citizens Choice Award for her outstanding performance in the Criminal Justice sector.

Funke Adeoye is a Human Rights Defender, Social Innovator and Young Global Leader. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Hope Behind Bars Africa, an organization that promotes human rights and criminal justice reforms using legal aid, advocacy and tech.

Funke, the founder of  the organization provides free legal services and direct support to indigent incarcerated individuals, while also promoting criminal justice reforms through research, evidence-based advocacy and technology products.

The organization has supported no fewer than 7,000 incarcerated individuals through their numerous interventions, ranging from providing access to justice, welfare, support and rehabilitation and reformation of ex-inmates.

The organization designed a tech platform known as “Justice Padi” which she said it hopes to revolutionize legal aid in West Africa and expand its work for justice-seeking individuals.

The justice system in Nigeria inspired her to found the organization in 2018

The Waislitz Global Citizens Choice Awards recognizes and celebrates individuals with excellent performance in their work to end extreme poverty and lead positive change in their communities and around the world.

Published by Joycy Lo

She is a writer and a humanitarian personnel,who has strong passion for humanity and hope to see and live in a poverty and crises free world someday. She has rendered selfless service to humanity in her own little way she has volunteered for organisations and serve as a friend and member of some international humanitarian organization like PROJECTHOPE,CHOICE HUMANITARIAN,Action 2015 amongst others. Her zeal to see the society and the world to live in a crises free world,made her join the Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace(GAMIP). She earn a Civic Leadership Certificate(YALI) and Certificates in Principle and Guidelines for UN Peacekeeping Operation and the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325(2000) in Africa from Peace Operations Training Institute. She served as an intern at the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution(IPCR),Abuja Nigeria. An advocate for youth inclusion in Peace and Security, UNSCR 2250.She believes in the domestication of the implementation of the National Action Plan of the inclusion of Youth in Peace and Security matters in Nigeria.

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