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LATEST PROJECTS

Project |01

 

  • Author 
  • Consultant 
  • Speaker
 
​Yemisi Ilesanmi is the Author of the book 'Freedom to Love For All: Homosexuality is Not Un-African'​.
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​She is an experienced trade union organiser, advocate, human right activist, blogger and a passionate poet.
 
She is also a frontline human right advocate; she campaigns, writes and speaks on a range of issues including workers rights, gender and sexuality issues.

She is the founder and coordinator of the campaign group 'Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora against Anti Same-Sex Laws'.
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To order her advocacy book on LGBT rights in Africa, titled 'FREEDOM TO LOVE FOR ALL:HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT UN-AFRICAN', kindly click on the link.
 
To book Yemisi Ilesanmi for consultancy or speaking engagements, contact her here.
Positions held /Awards​
  • ​Founder/ Coordinator- Nigerian LGBTIs in Diaspora Against Anti Same-Sex Laws.
 
  • ​ International Trade Union Congress Executive Board Member, General Council Member, Vice President (ICFTU/ITUC) 2004-2009
 
  • Chairperson, Youth Committee, ICFTU/ITUC 2004-2009

 

  • UN/ILO Youth Employment Network Member 2006-2009

 

  • International Labour Conference (ILC) Committee Member on Applications of Standards 2005 ILC & 2006 ILC
 
  • International Young Workers Award - 2008
 
  • Best female student of the Millennium Award-National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) - 1999
 
  • Founder /President - National Association of Nigerian Female Students (NANFS) - 1998-2001
 
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Project |02

 

Activism 
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  • ​Organised peaceful rallies in London and New York to protest Nigeria's Anti Same Sex Marriage Prohibition bill.
 
  • Partnered with International dept. of Trade Union Congress (TUC) in March 2005 to promote ‘Make Poverty History’ campaign, GCAP, International Women’s Day and ‘Commission for Africa Report’ in the United Kingdom.
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  • As gender officer of Nigeria labour congress , she was an active advocate for the development and adoption of the NLC gender policy and inauguration of the NLC National Women Commission.
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  •  On invitation of International Commission for Labour Rights (ICLR), she was part of a team of trade union lawyers that visited North Carolina in 2005 to embark on a public campaign and lobby for the rights of public employees in North Carolina and Virginia.

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