Aliro Joel Omara is a founding member and the Chairperson - Board of Director of the Human Rights Centre Uganda. He is also a former Commissioner at the Uganda Human Rights Commission where he served for 12 years. He is currently a member of the Governing Council of the African Peer Review Mechanism as chair of the thematic Area of Human Rights Democracy and Good Governance. Mr. Omara holds an LLB (Hon) degree from Makerere University and a Diploma in Legal Practice, LDC (Makerere). Mr. Omara helped in setting up human rights Commissions in various countries and has undertaken several consultancies in various fields of human rights