Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is composed of five experts from five different regions of the world, who all have great experience and expertise in combating contemporary forms of slavery and in assisting the victims.
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Ms. Virginia Herrera Murillo (Costa Rica) is a sociologist with over 17 years of combined expertise in Local Development Management and work experience as a Child Rights Advocate and Activist on child domestic labour issues and sexual exploitation of children. She is currently the Executive Director of Defensa de los Ninos y Ninas Internacional (1994-Present), an NGO working against child labour in Costa Rica. At the national level, Ms. Murillo was a founding member and Chair of the Costa Rican National Child Rights Coalition (1994-2005). At the Regional Level she co-founded the “Foros Iberoamericanos de Ongs de Infancia y Adolescentes” and as co-founder of the Latin America Regional Secretariat for the United Nations Study on Violence Against Children; she has been actively involved in coordinating the Violence Working Group of the Global Movement for Children/Latin America and Caribbean Chapter. Ms. Murillo is fluent in English, Spanish and French. |
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Ms. Klara Skrivankova (Czech Republic) is currently coordinating anti-trafficking programs at Anti-Slavery International. She has been working on issues of contemporary forms of slavery, in particular trafficking in human beings, since 2000. In the past eight years she has developed several programmes and projects establishing responses on the ground for the benefit of those trafficked and those vulnerable to trafficking and other forms of slavery, such as forced labour. Ms. Klara Skrivankova was a deputy permanent member (2003-2005) of the Governmental Council on Human Rights, an advisory body to the Czech Government. In 2007, she co-founded with two British barristers, the Trafficking Law and Policy Forum, a platform that brings together NGOs working in the field of human trafficking with lawyers and individuals working in other sectors of society. She was also a Member of the Independent Advisory Group and the Prevention Sub-group to the UK Human Trafficking Centre. |
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Ms. Asma Jahangir (Pakistan) is a leading Pakistani lawyer, advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan and human rights activist, who works both in Pakistan and internationally to prevent the persecution of religious minorities, women, and exploitation of children. She was Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief from 2004 to 2010 and Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary and Summary Executions from 1998-2004. She was the Chairperson of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. She has spent most of her career defending the rights of women, religious minorities, and children of Pakistan. In 1995, Ms. Jahangir received the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders and the Ramon Magsaysay Award. She was also awarded the Bernard Simons Memorial Award of the International Bar Association in 2000. |
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Mr. George Omona (Uganda) is a social worker that has for the past 20 years been active in providing assistance to communities in Northern Uganda especially during the conflict emergency. He has previously worked for the Gulu Support the Children Organisation (GUSCO). He is the former Director of the Agency for Cooperation on Research and Development (ACORD). He received the Anti Slavery International Award in 2000 in recognition of his work with children affected by armed conflict, particularly those abducted by the rebel Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. |
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Mr. Mike Dottridge (United Kingdom) is a consultant on human rights and child rights and author of numerous publications dealing with international human rights law and contemporary forms of slavery. He has extensive experience in managing and evaluating projects. From 1996 until 2002 he was the director of a London-based non-governmental organization, Anti-Slavery International. He worked previously in Amnesty International’s Africa Programme. |