Daisy Nabasitu

Daisy Nabasitu

Daisy is a PhD candidate at the Irish Centre for Human Rights Centre, University of Galway. Her research focuses on the regulation of the recruitment industry, access to justice and fair working conditions of work for migrant domestic workers and the associated risks of trafficking for purposes of domestic servitude. Her research examines the migration routes of Ugandans to countries of the Gulf Region. Daisy is currently on leave of absence at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Kampala – Uganda, where she works as an Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions. She specialised in the prosecution of crimes of sexual and gender-based violence, sexual exploitation of children, Trafficking in wildlife and environment cases. In 2020, she worked with the Human Trafficking Legal Center, Washington DC as a Legal fellow. She also worked as a legal intern with the Special Victims Division at the Family Justice Centre, State's Attorney's Office, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA.

In 2019/2020, Daisy was a Hubert H. Humphrey visiting scholar at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL), Washington DC. She obtained a master’s in international human Rights Law and Public Policy at University College Cork, Ireland as an Irish Aid fellow. She holds a diploma in Legal Practice of Law Development Centre, Kampala (Uganda). She received a Bachelor of Laws Degree at Makerere University Kampala (Uganda). She is a recipient of a Danish Aid fellowship for a Diploma in managerial Problems and the Courts, the market and the courts democracy, Human rights and the courts at BS and a certificate in Law and Justice as a tool of democracy at Centre for Continuing Education, Denmark through Danida Capacity Development Support Programme under the auspices of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs/ Danida Fellowship Centre. she was previously awarded a scholarship Institute for Security Studies scholarship to attend a course on Countering Human Trafficking in Addis Ababa.

Daisy served as a member of the Legal Advisory board of the Human Trafficking Center, Washington DC 2020-2021. She is is professional member of the Uganda Association of Prosecutors, International Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA), Member of the Federation of Uganda Women Lawyers and a member of the Uganda Bar Association.

PhD Research Topic: 'Migrant Domestic Workers, Labour exploitation and Anti -Trafficking laws in Uganda and Saudi Arabia: Moving beyond exceptionalism'

Supervisor:  Professor Siobhán Mullally

Scholarship / funding awards information: Established Professor of Law start up Fund, University of Galway.

Links to online academic profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5051-3566 

Publications and Outputs:

• Nabasitu, D. (2018) 'Examining measures facilitating participation of female child victims in the prosecution of sexual abuse cases in Uganda’s criminal justice system', CCJHR Legal Research Working Papers series, No. 8, Cork: CCJHR, University College Cork available at https://cora.ucc.ie/handle/10468/6964
• Presented my research on prevention of trafficking and human rights-based approaches, at the 2022 Global Freedom from Slavery Forum in Marrakesh, Morocco.
• Blog article’ Domestic Workers, Forced Labor, and the Locked Doors of COVID-19 r available at  https://bit.ly/3mjAm85
• Blog article titled, Migrant Women Domestic Workers Deserve protection Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic published by the Institute for African Women in Law available at https://bit.ly/2HiUCYI)