Strategic partners

United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty

United Nations High Level Interagency Task Force (UNITF)

	Najat MAALLA M’JID The Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children
	Virginia GAMBA The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
The World Health Organization (WHO)
The International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Members of the Advisory Board

Advisory Board

	Ann SKELTON (South Africa) (Chair of the UN Global Study Advisory Board) *Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child*
	Malcom Evans (United Kingdom) (Vice-Chair of the UN Global Study Advisory Board) *Chair of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture*
	Andrew Coyle (United Kingdom) Adviser on Prison and Criminal justice matters to the OHCHR, UNODC and the UN Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Council of Europe (CPT)
	Barry Goldson (United Kingdom) Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool
	Benyam Mezmur (Ethiopia) *Member and Former Chair, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child*
	Ben Lewis (Unites States) Human Rights Officer, Migration and Human Rights (OHCHR)
	Catalina Devandas Aguilar (Costa Rica) *UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities*
	Dainius Puras (Lithuania) *UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health*
	Hina Jilani (Pakistan) *Former UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Human Rights Defenders (2000 – 2008)*
	Jean Zermatten (Switzerland) Founder and Director of the International Institute for the Rights of the Child; *Former Chair of UN Committee on the Rights of the Child*
	Juan Mendez (Argentina) *Professor of Law and Human Rights Activist;* Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2008 – 2016)
	Leila Zerrougui (Algeria) *Former UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict*
	Mary Beloff (Argentina) *Children’s Rights and Criminal Law Expert, Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires*
	Maud de Boer-Buquicchio (Netherlands) *UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography*
	Pablo Ceriani Cernadas (Argentina) *Vice Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of Migrants*
	Thomas Hammarberg (Sweden) *Former Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (2006-2012);* Former Member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (1991-1997)
	Ton Liefaard (Netherlands) Professor of Children’s Rights and holds the UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights at Leiden University, Leiden Law School
	Ursula Kilkelly (United Kingdom) *Dean, School of Law, University College Cork, Director of the Child Law Clinic*
	Usang Maria Assim (South Africa) Senior Researcher Children’s Rights Project, Dullah Omar Institute for Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights, University of the Western Cape
	Vitit Muntarbhorn (Thailand) UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (2016 –present); Former Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (1990 – 1994)

Civil society representatives of the Advisory Board

	Jo Becker (United States) *Advocacy director of the Children's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch (HRW)*
	Benoit Van Keirsbilck (Belgium) *Director of the Belgian section of Defence for Children International (DCI)*