NGO Advisory Panel

This NGO advisory panel was formed to advise on all aspects of the establishment of the Study, provide the independent expert and study secretariat with input on the study's content, process and outcomes, encourage and facilitate broad and effective NGO involvement in the study, and help mobilize effective follow-up to the study. Members were chosen to ensure regional and gender balance, expertise across the range of topics to be covered by the study, and representation of different sectors of NGOs, including advocacy, operational, and professional organizations.

Members of the panel

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Biographies of the panel members can be downloaded as a word document

Jo Becker
Human Rights Watch, United States

Mary Beloff
Center of Legal and Social Studies on Childhood and Youth, Argentina

Carol Lynn Bower
Resources Aimed at the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (RAPCAN), South Africa

Luke Dowdney
Viva Rio, Brazil

Joseph Gathia
Centre of Concern for Child Labour, India

Dilyana Giteva
Human Rights Project, Bulgaria

Melanie Gow
World Vision International, Australia

Stuart Hart
International School Psychology Association (ISPA) and the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD), United States

Séverine Jacomy
Focal Point on Sexual Exploitation of Children

Elizabeth Jareg
Save the Children, Norway

Dr. Hasson Qasem Khan
Yemen Psychological Association, Yemen

Ellen Mouravieff-Apostol
International Federation of Social Workers, Switzerland

Najat M’jid
BAYTI, Morocco

Virginia Murillo Herrera
Defense for Children International, Costa Rica

Peter Newell
Global Initiative to End all Corporal Punishment of Children, Children’s Rights Alliance for England, EPOCH - End Physical Punishment of Children, United Kingdom

Millie Odhiambo
Child Rights Advisory Documentation and Legal Center (CRADLE), Kenya

Anastasia Pinto
Centre for Organization Research and Education/World Coalition for Indigenous Children and Youth, India

Elizabeth Protacio-de Castro
Program on Psychosocial Trauma and Human Rights, Center for Integrative and Development Studies, University of the Philippines, Philippines.

Rakesh Rajani
HakiElimu, Tanzania

Desmond Runyan, MD, DrPH
International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

Washeila Sait
Disabled Children’s Action Group, South African Federal Council on Disability, South Africa

Dick Sobsey
Inclusion International, TASH (Formerly the Association for Persons with Severe Disabilities), The Canadian Association for Community Living, The JP Das Developmental Disabilities Centre at the University of Alberta, Canada

Liliana Ines Tojo
Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), Brazil

Marie Wernham
Consortium for Street Children, UK