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. Genet Shume

Coordinator, Child Justice Protect Office (CJPO), Federal Supreme Court, Ethiopia

Ms. Genet Shume is the Coordinator at the Child Justice Protect Office (CJPO) under the Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia. CJPO is one of the core institutional measures the government of Ethiopia has taken to guarantee the realization of the best interest of the child in the administration of justice for children. Under the project, Mrs. Genet has worked as the CJPO’s Social Work Supervisor from 2015-16, and as a pro bono lawyer for the Children’s Legal Protection Center (CLPC) from 2012-14. She has been a member of the Ethiopian Women Lawyer’s Association (EWLA) since 2009, a non-partisan membership organization established in 1995 for the promotion and protection of women’s rights. Mrs. Genet has served under various capacities, including as its Legal Consellor, Program Coordinator and Project Coordinator.

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