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

Professor Benyam Dawit Mezmur

Member, ACERWC; Member, UNCRC

Professor Benyam Dawit Mezmur is an academician and practitioner who specialises in children’s rights law. He is a member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, and served as its Chairperson from 2015-2017, and as Vice-Chairperson from 2013-2015. 

At the regional level, Professor Mezmur continues to serve on the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC), a treaty body of the African Union. He served as its Chairperson twice ( 20122014 and 2015-2017), and is currently its special rapporteur on children and armed conflict in Africa. 

In his full-time post, he is an Associate Professor of Law, and Coordinator of the Children’s Rights Project at the Dullah Omar Institute  for Constitutional Law, Governance, and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. In early 2018, he was appointed as Deputy Dean for Post-Graduate and Research Matters of the Faculty.

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