Antoinette Ouédraogo

[3] Ouédraogo is the president of the women's development association, and a member of a national climate change experts' group.

[4] She has stated that uncontrolled land clearances, poaching and the search for new grazing pastures are exacerbating climate change.

[5] Ouédraogo is also representing the former government minister, General Djibrill Bassolé, who is suspected of leading a short-lived 2015 coup d’état, which destabilized Burkina Faso.

[6] In July 2017, the legal defence team had a "major victory", after a UN working group said that the detention of the former Minister was "arbitrary and illegal".

[6] In May 2017, Ouédraogo was representing Burkina Faso's former President Blaise Compaore (in absentia) and his cabinet in a trial, after he fled the country to the Ivory Coast during a popular revolt in 2014, as he attempted to extend his 27-year-rule.