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

Ms. Yetnebersh Negussie

Senior Inclusion Advisor, Light for the World

Ms. Yetnebersh Nigussie is Senior Inclusion Advisor for Light for the World. She previously served as the Executive Director of the Ethiopian Center for Disability and Development (ECDD). A lawyer and disability rights activist in Ethiopia, she served for the Anti-AIDS movement and received a number of national and international awards, such as the AMANITARE award which she received in 2003 in South Africa for her strong advocacy work for girls’ education. Ms. Yetnebersh has served in more than 20 organisations voluntarily, including chairing the Ethiopian National Association of the Blind Women’s Wing for 4 years (2003-2007). She founded a local organisation, the ECDD, along with other prominent Ethiopians to promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities in different development programmes, including economic empowerment. She also represents the NGO confederation, Light for the World, as a member of their International Board of Ambassadors.

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