Saisuree Chutikul is one of the world's leading voices in the fight against human
trafficking. She has worked at the highest levels as a legislator and government official to create innovative models to bring government and NGO's together to stop the modern day slavery that afflicts her country. As Cabinet minister in Thailand (1991-1992), Dr. Chutikul revised Thai law to assist minors and to create stricter penalties against proprietors, pimps, and parents who send children into prostitution. As a Senator (1996-2000) Dr. Chutikul worked with the Thai police to set up units for protection of women and children. A longtime member of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (1989-2000), Dr. Chutikul was an untiring advocate for girls at risk for prostitution and forced labor. She was instrumental in developing the Thai National Committee on Combating Trafficking in Women and Children established in 1994 and has been a leader in launching a national plan to combat human trafficking, including the recovery and reintegration of women into society; the repatriation of foreigners lured into traffickers' web; and the prosecution of criminal networks. In her own country, Dr. Chutikul has organized trafficking training courses for medical personnel, social workers, police officers, and immigration officers. She has crossed the border to work with the Cambodian government to develop a memorandum of understanding between the two countries to combat trafficking. She was elected Vice Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Dr. Chutikul serves on the Board of Directors of a number of organizations supporting women and children including World Vision.
Dr. Philip Cook
Philip Cook is the founder and current Executive Director of the International Institute for Child Rights and Development (IICRD) in British Columbia, Canada. Since 1994, Dr. Cook has overseen the Institute’s growth as a leader in linking children’s rights and healthy development to broad issues of human development and participatory governance across diverse cultures and situational contexts. During this time, IICRD has been working in partnership with a cross section of UN agencies, governments, and international non-governmental organizations, and children’s organizations. These partnerships have resulted in policy design, community based research initiatives, school based programs and projects with marginalized children, youth and their communities on various issues including: child participation in local governance, youth leadership and development, support for Indigenous children, child participation monitoring and evaluation, intergenerational programs, promoting the rights of sexually-exploited children and caring for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.
Professor David Cohen
Professor Cohen is Professor of Rhetoric and Classics at UC Berkeley, and the former Professor of Law and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He has monitored and reported extensively on the East Timor trials before the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in Dili and the Ad Hoc Human Rights Court in Jakarta. He currently directs trial monitoring projects at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia as well as an international project on the World War II war crimes trials in Asia, the Pacific, and Europe. He is also writing a book on a comparative study of international criminal hybrid tribunals in East Timor, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and Kosovo and on war crimes from World War II to today.
Mr. Marzuki Darusman
Born in Bogor in 1945, Mr. Darusman graduated from Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung in 1974, majoring in international law of the sea. He was a member of the Executive Committee and former Vice-Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Geneva and for a long time has been a strong advocate of human rights and democratization in Indonesia championing these causes while with GOLKAR where he has been a Member of Parliament since the 1980s. He has developed an international reputation for being an outspoken critic of the government’s human rights record. He has served as Chairperson of the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), and as Indonesia’s Attorney General. In 2009, The United Nations chose Mr. Darusman as one of the UN team to investigate the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
Ms. Sidney Jones
Sidney Jones is the Senior Adviser for the International Crisis Group's Asia Program in Jakarta, Indonesia. Sidney and the Crisis Group’s South East Asian analysts based in Jakarta prepare analytical reports on the sources of conflict and violence in the region, with a particular focus on Indonesia. She has examined separatist conflicts (Aceh and Papua, Mindanao); communal conflicts (Poso, Moluccas); and ethnic conflict (Kalimantan). Her team has also looked at Islamic radicalism, producing a series of reports on Jemaah Islamiyah and its operations in Indonesia and the Philippines. It also looks at issues of security sector reform and decentralization in Indonesia. Sidney frequently briefs the media, international organizations, and government representatives on these issues.
Mr. Morten Bergsmo
Morten Bergsmo is Senior Researcher, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and Coordinator of the ICC Legal Tools Project. He was formerly Special Adviser to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution of Norway, Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of the Legal Advisory Section, ICC Office of the Prosecutor, Coordinator of the establishment of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor, and before that, Legal Adviser, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Since Mr. Bergsmo has worked closely with national capacity building, knowledge-transfer and legal empowerment in the area of core international crimes in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Indonesia, Iraq, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway and Serbia. He has published extensively in international criminal law and has had several international consultancies in international criminal justice. He is the convenor of the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law and the Case Matrix Network.
Mr. Mahdev Mohan
Mahdev Mohan is Assistant Professor of law at the Singapore Management University. He is also an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court and an Associate of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. Mahdev is also the co-founder of Access to Justice Asia LLP, an NGO comprising of scholars and lawyers dedicated to legal representation, social justice and capacity-building for victims of mass crime in Asia. He served as amicus curiae to the UN-backed Khmer Rouge Tribunal, which is currently trying former Khmer Rouge leaders for grave war crimes ad crimes against humanity. Last year, Mahdev was appointed international counsel for victims by the Tribunal and the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC). He is the first Singaporean/ Asian to be so appointed. Mahdev’s research interests lie in public international law, international criminal law, transitional justice and human rights, State-building in Asia, and the administration of criminal justice in Singapore.
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