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Oluwaseun is a global leader and gender equality advocate with interest and expertise in human rights, migration, policy advocacy and communication for development. With over six 6 years’ experience working extensively on issues of sexual violence, irregular migration, child abuse, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and increasing access to sexual reproductive health, Osowobi has managed grants programs aimed at improving the lives of Nigerian women and girls, while increasing access to justice.
As a leading voice for GBV prevention and response in Nigeria, she worked alongside Civil Society Organisations and the British Council in Nigeria on the EUfunded Rule of Law and Anti-corruption (ROLAC) project to facilitate the establishment of Nigeria’s first national Sex Offenders Register in 2019.
Additionally, she collaborated with the BBC to create the ‘ Sex For Grades’ documentary to investigate sexual harassment in Nigerian tertiary institutions. This has propelled actions across the country against abusive lecturers and has reintroduced the Sexual Harassment in Tertiary Educational Institution Prohibition Bill in the Nigerian House of Assembly, which has now passed its third hearing.
For 2 years, she worked extensively within the migration field on projects aimed at reducing irregular migration in Nigeria while supporting returned migrants. Under this project as well, she facilitated capacity building training for Government and non-state actors on building effective communication strategies to promote safe migration pathways, eliminate stigmatisation of returned migrants and foster social cohesion in their communities of origin.
In addition, Oluwaseun is experienced in mental health advocacy given her work in providing mental health response to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence.
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She served as a youth advisor to several national and international organisations to support their youth and SGBV programming and currently sits on the Board of Association for Family and Reproductive Health (ARFH) Nigeria, a leading NGO in Nigeria.
STER is a youth-led, nonprofit organisation advocating for and promoting Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SHRH) and speaking against sexual violence. They advocate for rape survivors who can’t speak about their ordeal due to stigmatisation.
STER Initiative believes that an enlightened community will see the need to end rape and victim-blaming once and for all. They express this belief through their use of new media to debunk misconceptions around sexual violence and creating awareness of the ills of rape culture in society.
A recipient of various awards, their goal is to create a society where women and men, girls and boys no longer have to live in fear of rape and all forms of sexual violence. STER Initiative engages in community outreach programs and provides free self-defense classes for girls and boys to achieve this goal.
