October 2019 Workshop Presentations
Our work with regional human rights mechanisms
Opening session
- Ms. Kate Gillmore, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- H.E. Ambassador Geert Muylle, Permanent Representative of Belgium to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Other presentations
- Ms. Franca Ofor, Principal Legal Research Offcier, ECOWAS Court
- Mr. Alain O. Nsengiyumva, Personal Assistant to the President, East African Court of Justice
- Mr. Carlos E. Gaio, Senior Lawyer, Inter American Court on Human Rights
- Ms. Kerine Jody Ann Dobson, Legal Officer,Carribean Court of Justice
- Ms. Amara Pongsapich, Chair, the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR)
- Ambassador Nadia Gofoun, Arab Human Rights Committee
- Ms. Christina Saunders, HRO, Anti-Racial Discrimination Section, OHCHR
- Mr. Ahmed Reid, Expert, Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (WGEPAD)
- Ms. Marie-Christine Bocoum, Deputy Chiarperson, African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
- Prof. Bertil Cottier, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano) Switzerland
- Ms. Shyami Puvimanasinghe, HRO, Right to Development Section, OHCHR
- Mr. Pastor Murillo, Vice-chairperson, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination(CERD)
- Mr. Michal Balcerzak, Working Group of Experts on people of African Descent (WGEPAD)
- Mr. Ayalew Getachew Assefa, Senior Child Protection Officer, African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)
- Mr. Stephane Essaga, Executive Director of the African Research Center on Mines and Energy Policies ( ARCMEP)
- Mr. Felix Ndahinda, Associate Professor,University of Rwanda/Aegis Trust/Tilburg University
- Ms. Lisa Reinsberg, Executive Director, International Justice Resource Centre, USA
- Ms. Elizabeth Kaneza, Chairperson, KAneza Foundation, Berlin, Germany
- Mr. Arnold Bwele, Culture Pour Tous, Germany (CPT)
- Mr. Bongani Majola ,Chairperson, South African Human Rights Commission
- Ms. Gabriela Mundo, NHRI Guatemala
- Ms. Gabrielle Mabah, President/Cofounder, L’Association Donna et Dignita, Italy
- Ms. Christie J. Edwards, Deputy Head, Tolerance and Non-Discrimination, OSCE ODHIR
- Ms. Elżbieta Kuzborska-Pacha, Legal Advisor, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
- Mr. Charef Mohammed, UN Committee on Migrant Workers