Bronwen Manby
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{{Infobox person
| name = Bronwen Manby
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE|size=100}}
| alma_mater = University of Oxford
Columbia University
Maastricht University
| occupation = Human rights scholar, lobbyist
}}
N. Bronwen Manby {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OBE}} is a British human rights scholar and lobbyist specialized in comparative nationality law, statelessness, and legal identity in Africa. She is an independent consultant and a senior policy fellow and guest lecturer at the MSc in human rights in the London School of Economics. Manby was previously the deputy director of the African branch of the Human Rights Watch.
Life
Manby completed degrees at the University of Oxford and Columbia University. She is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales.{{Cite web|title=Bronwen Manby|url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/people/bronwen-manby.aspx|access-date=2021-09-03|website=London School of Economics and Political Science|language=en-GB}} Her work focuses on human rights in Africa with a focus on comparative nationality law, statelessness, and legal identities.{{Cite web|title=Dr. Bronwen Manby|url=https://www.raid-uk.org/bronwen|access-date=2021-09-03|website=Raid|language=en}}
On October 20, 2015, Manby graduated with a Ph.D. from Maastricht University's Faculty of Law.{{Cite web|date=19 October 2015|title=Stateless Africans a step closer to citizenship thanks to UM doctoral student|url=https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/stateless-africans-step-closer-citizenship-thanks-um-doctoral-student|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-03|website=Maastricht University|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903012801/https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/news/stateless-africans-step-closer-citizenship-thanks-um-doctoral-student |archive-date=2021-09-03 }} Her dissertation, Citizenship and statelessness in Africa: the law and politics of belonging, was conducted under supervisor Gerard-René de Groot and co-supervisor Olivier Vonk.{{Cite thesis|title=Citizenship and statelessness in Africa: the law and politics of belonging|publisher=Maastricht University|date=2015|doi=10.26481/dis.20151020nm|first=N.B.|last=Manby|isbn=9789462402409 |degree=Ph.D.|url=https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ws/files/1560993/guid-f91d9081-73da-4125-9a7a-887ceb4acca7-ASSET2.0.pdf}}
Manby was awarded Order of the British Empire in 2004.{{Cite web|title=House of Commons - Public Administration - Written Evidence|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmpubadm/212/212we86.htm|access-date=2021-09-03|website=publications.parliament.uk}}
Manby was deputy director of the African branch of the Human Rights Watch. She later became a senior advisor for Africa Govern.{{Cite journal|last=Devir|first=Nathan|date=2015|title=Review of La nationalité en Afrique|journal=Cahiers d'Études Africaines|volume=55|issue=218|pages=420–423|issn=0008-0055|jstor=24476721}} Manby is a senior policy fellow and guest lecturer at the MSc in human rights at the London School of Economics.
Selected works
- {{Cite book|last=McGovern|first=Mary|title=South Africa Half-hearted Reform: The Official Response to the Rising Tide of Violence|date=1993|publisher=Human Rights Watch|isbn=978-1-56432-100-8|editor-last=Manby|editor-first=Bronwen|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|last=Manby|first=Bronwen|title=The Price of Oil: Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria's Oil Producing Communities|date=1999|publisher=Human Rights Watch|isbn=978-1-56432-225-8|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|last=Manby|first=Bronwen|title=Unequal Protection: The State Response to Violent Crime on South African Farms|date=2001|publisher=Human Rights Watch|isbn=978-1-56432-263-0|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|last=Manby|first=Bronwen|title=Struggles for Citizenship in Africa|date=2009|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-84813-353-2|language=en}}Reviews of Struggles for Citizenship in Africa:
- {{Cite journal|last=Turner|first=Bryan S.|author-link=Bryan Turner (sociologist)|date=July 2010|title=Review|journal=Society|language=en|volume=47|issue=4|pages=366–368|doi=10.1007/s12115-010-9340-4|s2cid=142591925 |issn=0147-2011}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Jahn|first=Ina Rehema|date=December 2012|title=Review|journal=Ahfad Journal|publisher=Ahfad University for Women|volume=29|issue=2|pages=97|issn=0255-4070}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Rutherford|first=Blair|date=2011|title=Review of Struggles for Citizenship in Africa|journal=Canadian Journal of African Studies|volume=45|issue=2|pages=374–375|issn=0008-3968|jstor=23236972}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Mueller|first=Susanne D.|date=2011|title=Review of Struggles for Citizenship in Africa|journal=The International Journal of African Historical Studies|volume=44|issue=1|pages=183–184|issn=0361-7882|jstor=23046874}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Brain|first=Thea|date=2010|title=Review of Struggles for Citizenship in Africa|journal=Development in Practice|volume=20|issue=7|pages=911–912|doi=10.1080/09614524.2010.508116 |issn=0961-4524|jstor=20787366|s2cid=154049294 }}
- {{Cite journal|last=Lynch|first=Gabrielle|date=2012|title=Review|journal=Journal of International Development|language=en|volume=24|issue=1|pages=127–128|doi=10.1002/jid.1737|issn=1099-1328}}
- {{Cite book|last=Manby|first=Bronwen|title=Citizenship Law in Africa: A Comparative Study|date=2010|publisher=African Minds|isbn=978-1-936133-29-1|language=en}}Reviews of Citizenship Law in Africa:
- {{Cite journal|last=Devir|first=Nathan|date=July 2015|title=Manby, Bronwen. La nationalité en Afrique: Paris, Karthala ; London, Open Society Fondations, 2011|journal=Cahiers d'études africaines|issue=218|doi=10.4000/etudesafricaines.18164|issn=0008-0055|doi-access=free}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Shaw|first=Jo|date=March 2021|title=Citizenship in Africa|journal=Journal of Southern African Studies|volume=47|issue=2|pages=333–336|doi=10.1080/03057070.2021.1886526|bibcode=2021JSAfS..47..333S |s2cid=233873339 |issn=0305-7070}}
- {{Cite book|last=Manby|first=Bronwen|title=International Law and the Right to Nationality in Sudan|date=2011|publisher=Open Society Foundations|isbn=978-1-936133-43-7|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|last=Manby|first=Bronwen|title=Shell in Nigeria: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Ogoni Crisis|date=2016|publisher=SAGE|isbn=978-1-4739-6873-8|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|last=Manby|first=Bronwen|title=Citizenship in Africa: The Law of Belonging|date=2018|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-5099-2078-5|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Banks|first=Angela M|date=April 2020|title=Review|url=|journal=The American Journal of Comparative Law|volume=68|issue=2|pages=468–472|doi=10.1093/ajcl/avaa011|issn=0002-919X}}
References
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External links
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Category:British human rights activists
Category:British women activists
Category:21st-century British women writers
Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford
Category:Columbia University alumni
Category:Maastricht University alumni
Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)