Ms. Bassasso Ali Tiloh

Programme Officer, Counter Trafficking and Child Protection, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

H.E. Mr. Tsegaye Asmamaw

Vice President, Federal Supreme Court, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Dr. Assefa Bequele

Executive Director, ACPF

H.E. Honorable William Byaruhanga

Attorney General, Republic of Uganda

Maître Malick Coulibaly

President of the National Commission on Human Rights, former Minister of Justice, Republic of Mali

Professor Jaap Doek

Professor of Law, Vrije University, Amsterdam

Ms. Rumbidzai Dube

Senior Programme Officer, Children and Law Programme, ACPF

Mr. Edmund Foley

Head of Department for Public Law, Ghana Institute of Public Management

Ms. Beatrice Gacengo

Programme Specialist, Online Child Sexual Exploitation, ECPAT International

Mr. Ayalew Getachew Assefa

Senior Legal Researcher, ACERWC Secretariat

Dr. Michael Gibbons

Programme Director, Children’s Rights/Education, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

Ms Zita Hansungule

Senior Project Coordinator, Center for Child Law (CCL), University of Pretoria

Ms. Kristen Hope-Burchill

Justice Advisor, Terre Des Hommes

Mr. Alex Kamarotos

Executive Director, Defence for Children International

Mr. Abdul Manaff Kemokai

Executive Director, DCI Sierra Leone

Mr. Henry Kabwe

Executive Director, Media Network on Child Rights and Development (MNCRD), Zambia

Ms. Lynn Kay

Country Director, Retrak

Mr. Benoit Van Keirsbilck

Director, DCI-Belgium

Ms. Tina Lorizzo, Researcher

Dullah Omar Institute/Article 5 Initiative (DOI/CSPRI)

Honourable Justice Teresia Matheka

Judiciary, Kenya

Maître Malick Coulibaly

President of the National Commission on Human Rights, former Minister of Justice, Republic of Mali

Maître Malick Coulibaly, magistrate and Malian politician, is currently President of the National Commission of Human Rights (NCHR). Maître Coulibaly studied at the School of Administration of Mali where he obtained a Master's degree in private law. He then studied at the French Universities of Paris X -Nanterre where he obtained a Master's degree in general private law in 1999 and Montpellier where he successively obtained a DEA (Master of Advanced Studies) in fundamental private law and a Doctorate in private law and criminal sciences in 2000 and 2003 respectively. He then taught law at Mandé Bukari University, Bamako, Mali, from October 2004 to June 2009 and at the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences of Bamako. 

Maître Malick Coulibaly served as deputy prosecutor at the Kati Court of First Instance until September 2008. He was then appointed Human Rights Training Expert in the United Nations Joint Human Rights and Gender Promotion Program (UNHRGPP). On April 25, 2012, he was appointed Minister of Justice, Keeper of the Seals, in the Government of former Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra. He was reappointed to this position in the national unity government of Cheick Modibo Diarra on August 20, 2012

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