Monica Tabengwa is a human rights lawyer from Botswana. She holds a masters (LLM) degree from the University of Pretoria Centre for Human Rights. Experienced human rights advocate and defender.

 

Formerly, the Executive Director of Pan Africa ILGA, she is a social justice activist, feminist and legal professional with extensive experience in human rights and social justice advocacy, extending to regional and international human rights mechanisms. Also formerly Human Rights Watch LGBTI researcher conducting research and documentation of human rights violations, with specific focus on the rights of sexual and gender minorities in Africa. She has extensive experience in gender and rights-based training and strategic litigation.

 

She managed the DFID funded HIVOS LGBTI inclusion project until recently. Monica was one of the original founders of the Envisioning LGBTI project which was initially hatched when they met at the Outgames in Toronto in 2007. She has been a founder and supporter of all things LEGABIBO, an LGBTI organisation in Botswana which has been behind the campaign to decriminalize same-sex relations in Botswana.