1999 Advocate Delphine Djiraibe is internationally recognized for her work as a human rights lawyer and chief attorney at the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) in Chad, as well as co-founder of the Chadian Association for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights. She has been working on the Chad-Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project since its inception as well as advocating social, economic, and environmental rights in Chad and for World Bank accountability and corporate responsibility in the disbursement of oil revenues. As a chief attorney at PILC and former president of the Chadian Association for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, Delphine was part of the coalition that pursued the former dictator Hissène Habré and held him accountable for the atrocities.
