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

Dr. Assefa Bequele

Executive Director, ACPF

Dr. Assefa Bequele is the founding Executive Director of The African Child Policy Forum (ACPF). His career includes long years of service in the United Nations system (International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Asia and Africa).

He has devoted most of his professional life to the promotion of the rights and welfare of children, especially the progressive elimination of child labour. He was responsible for many years for the design, development and management of the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) – the world’s premier technical programme on child labour – and the development of ILO Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour (Convention No. 182).

Dr. Assefa has extensive experience in teaching at universiities in both Ethiopia and the United States of America (USA), and is the author of many publications and articles on child rights and economic development.

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