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Volunteer Lawyers Wanted: Defend Nigeria’s Most Marginalised Women
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Join the Legal Frontline of Feminist Justice

Across Nigeria, women are jailed for petty offences, dispossessed of land, and denied justice.
LIRAD is building a feminist legal movement to change that and we need you.

What You’ll Be Doing

Pro Bono Representation
Provide legal support for women facing gender-based violence, workplace injustice, family law disputes, wrongful incarceration, and systemic human rights violations.

Legal Clinics
Join a team delivering free legal aid across 5 strategic clinics in Nigeria—starting in Abuja. You’ll consult, represent, and support over 1,000 grassroots women and girls each year.

Strategic Litigation
Challenge discriminatory laws. Set bold legal precedents. Help redefine the justice system from the ground up.

Legal Empowerment & Training
Train future paralegals. Mentor young women defenders. Deliver accessible rights education in underserved communities.

Policy & Research
Conduct feminist legal research. Support policy reform and advocacy campaigns that drive real-world change.

We work with women most excluded from justice—LBQ women, sex workers, single mothers, women living with HIV, women with disabilities, displaced and incarcerated women, and women criminalised by poverty, drug use, or sex work.

Why Volunteer with LIRAD?

  • Be part of a powerful network of 150+ women lawyers advancing feminist justice nationwide.
  • Get exclusive capacity-building in trauma-informed lawyering, intersectional feminism, and SOGIESC rights.
  • Gain hands-on experience in public interest litigation, grassroots advocacy, and community legal empowerment.
  • Shape a more inclusive, more just legal system for every woman.

We’re Recruiting:

🔹 Pro Bono Lawyers (GBV, Family Law, Climate & Environmental Justice, SRHR)
🔹 Legal Clinic Consultants (Advisory, Mediation, Client Care)
🔹 Feminist Legal Trainers & Mentors
🔹 Legal Researchers & Policy Analysts
🔹 Strategic Litigation Collaborators

Apply Now

📩 Send your CV + short statement of interest to: info@liradnigeria.org
OR fill out the form here: https://forms.gle/oCCRdoQ12mh5jbo79

🕒 Deadline: August 20, 2025
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Early submissions encouraged.

This is more than volunteering. This is movement lawyering.
Ready to join the fight?


“Justice and equality for every woman” – LIRAD Vision