O鈥橞rien Fellow Talk: Human Rights in a Plural World 鈥� Perspectives from Ukraine and the African Court of Human Rights
You are warmly invited to attend the O鈥橞rien Fellow Talk: Human Rights in a Plural World 鈥� Perspectives from Ukraine and the African Court of Human Rights.
The talk will feature Winter 2026 Obrien Fellows Dr. Robert Eno and Yana Liubymova, who will share insights on the African human rights system and lessons from IDP leadership in Ukraine.
馃搮 Tuesday, March 17, 2026
馃晲 13:00 鈥� 14:30 (ET)
馃搷 91丝瓜视频 Faculty of Law, New Chancellor Day Hall, Room 609
Kindly RSVP to chrlp.law [at] mcgill.ca. Light lunch will be served.
We look forward to welcoming you.
Speaker Biography
Yana Liubymova
(Co-founder, Congress of IDP Councils, and head of IDP Council,
Luhansk, a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and policy expert
specialising in internal displacement, durable solutions, and Women,
Peace and Security. She has lived experience of repeated internal
displacement (2014, 2022) combined with over a decade of work in
national governance and international advisory roles. Yana is the Chair
of the first IDP Council in Ukraine and a co-founder of the Congress of
IDP Councils of Ukraine. She is a former member of UNHCR鈥檚 Global
Compact on the Refugees Advisory Board and the Advisory Group of the
UN Special Adviser on Solutions to Internal Displacement, and has
worked with UNICEF and the World Bank on resilience, housing, and
recovery policies.)
Dr. Robert Eno
is a national from the Republic of Cameroon. He is an experienced jurist with a demonstrated history of working in the academia, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and national and international organizations. He has expertise in the fields of international law, human rights law, international humanitarian law, the rule of law, international refugee law, administrative law, alternative dispute resolution (arbitration, negotiation, and mediation), peacebuilding and democratic governance. He has over twenty-five (25) years of solid professional experience in the promotion and protection of human rights, with focus on the African human rights system. Robert Eno, a Winter 2026 O'Brien fellow.
He has been Registrar of the African Court on Human and Peoples鈥� Rights, since January 2011. Prior to joining the African Court, he worked as Senior Legal Officer for protection at the Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples鈥� Rights from July 2006 to June 2010, where he served as Acting Executive Secretary from July 2006 鈥� August 2007. In 2009, he taught Public International Law, Conflict of Laws and Constitutional Law, on a part time and voluntary basis, at the Department of Law, University of The Gambia.
He is a holder of a Bachelors Degree in Law from the University of Yaound茅 II, Soa, Cameroon (1993), a post-graduate Diploma in Human Rights Law from the University of Zambia (1995), a Masters in Law from the University of South Africa (1999) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of the Witwatersrand (2007).
Dr. Eno has a number of publications to his credit, including the UN Peacekeeping Operations and respect for Human rights 鈥� published in the South African Year Book of International Law, Vol. 24, 1999; and the African Commission on Human and Peoples鈥� Rights in the New African Dispensation 鈥� published in the African Security Review, Volume 11 Number 2, 2002.
Dr. Eno has had over sixteen years of uninterrupted work experience in the human rights and related fields, working with NGOs, national human rights institutions, the academia and intergovernmental bodies. In August 2023, he was appointed an Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Law, School of Law, Addis Ababa University, where he co-taught the Module 鈥淗istory, Philosophy, and Politics of Human Rights" to MA/LLM students at the Addis Ababa University. He is currently a Visiting Associate Professor, teaching the African Human Rights System to LLM Students, School of Law, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America.
