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Summary: List of experts taking part in the East Asia and
Pacific regional consultation for the UN
Violence Against children, in Bangkok from 14
to 16 June 2005.
GENERAL ISSUES RELATED TO CHILDREN AND VIOLENCE
Professor Paulo Sergio Pinheiro
Professor Pinheiro, a former Secretary of State for Human Rights in Brazil
and former director for the country’s Centre for the Study of Violence since
1990. He was mandated by the General Assembly and the Secretary-
General appointed Independent Expert Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro to lead the
study.
Anupama Rao Singh, Regional Director, UNICEF EAPRO
Ms. Singh assumed her position as UNICEF Regional Director for East Asia
and the Pacific on 1 November 2004. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Singh
served as Deputy Director, Programme Division, UNICEF Headquarters in
New York, a position she held from January 2001. In this capacity she was
responsible for the oversight of UNICEF’s engagement in and contribution
to the UN reform and the global strategic programme support to regional
and country offices. In addition, Ms. Singh has undertaken a number of
special assignments for the UN system, including the co-ordination of the
needs assessment for reconstruction in Iraq and Deputy Humanitarian Co-
ordinator ad interim for the Darfur crisis in Sudan.
Jaap Doek is Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
He is also a professor of Family and Juvenile Law, having taught and
conducted research and participated in conferences all over the world.
Prior to his appointment as a board member of the Committee, he was
Director at the Office of International Relations at the Vrije Univseriteit in
Amsterdam. He has extensive experience in child rights related issues and
was a founding member of Defense for Children International, and the
International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse.
Judith Ennew, Senior Research Associate, Centre for Family Research,
University of Cambridge
Judith Ennew, a social anthropologist by training, is currently Senior
Research Associate in the Centre for Family Research, University of
Cambridge. She has been an activist and researcher in children's rights
since 1979, specialising in issues concerning child workers, 'street children'
and child sexual exploitation, with respect to both research and
programme planning. Over the last decade, she has increasingly focused
on capacity building among local researchers and programme managers in
participatory research with children. Her publications on research include
Children in focus (with Jo Boyden, Save the Children Sweden, 1997). She
has worked in Latin America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Eastern
Europe, but has been based in Thailand since 2000, working largely in
Indonesia, The Philippines and Viet Nam.
VIOLENCE IN THE HOME AND THE FAMILY
Varin Sun, Research and Child Protection Coordinator with Tearfund UK,
Cambodia Children at Risk office
Varin Sun, is an optometrist by profession, but is now working as a
researcher against child abuse and acting as Research and Child
Protection Coordinator for Tearfund, UK. He is involved in a research
project on Children’s Perceptions of Violence, and acts on behalf of
Tearfund in responding to child abuse and violence in Cambodia and works
closely with Cambodia Children at Risk office.
The Regional Consultation is being organised by the Steering Committee
for East Asia Pacific Regional Consultation on the UN Study on Violence
against Children which is made up of Child Workers in Asia, ECPAT,
UNESCO,UNOHCHR, Plan International, Save the Children Alliance, terre
des hommes, UNICEF, WHO and World Vision.
Edwina Kotoisuva, Deputy Coordinator, Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre and
Project Manager for Vanuatu’s Women Centre
Edwina is the Education/Training Officer and Deputy Coordinator of the Fiji
Women’s Crisis Centre. She is involved in coordination, management and
capacity building training programmes of the FWCC, particularly in relation
to programmes on violence against women and gender and human rights.
She has also taken up responsibilities as Project Manager for the Vanuatu
Women’s Centre that provides counseling and support services for women
and children who are victim/survivors of gender violence.
VIOLENCE IN THE SCHOOL
Natsu Nogami, Researcher, Save the Children, Sweden
Nogami is a researcher based in Japan, currently working as a Consultant
for Save the Children Sweden, Southeast Asia. She previously worked with
Child Workers in Asia Foundation (Secretariat,
based in Bangkok) as Research and Documentation Officer. She has a
master degree in law from a Canadian law school, and has been engaged
in child's rights protection in Asian countries in the recent years.
Lynette Petueli , Save the Children Fiji
Lynette Cordellia Petueli works for Save the Children Fiji on their Child
Rights and Participation Programme. In that capacity she as worked to
support innovative projects to promote child rights and engage them in
meaningful participation. She has recently been involved in a film
production supported by UNICEF and Save the Children portraying the
dreams and aspirations of children in Fiji. She is a member of the National
Coordinating Committee on Children, the National Committee on the
Prevention of Suicides and has a degree from the University of the South
Pacific.
VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW
Tuul Tsend-Ayush, National Coordinator for Child Rights and Adocacy,
World Vision (Mongolia)
Tuul Tsend –Ayush works to advocate with the Government of Mongolia on
children rights issues but especially those vulnerable, at risk, traumatized
and mentally and physically challenged. She has been very involved in
working to strengthen the capacity and ability of the Mongolian Police and
legal profession to handle juvenile justice issues.
VIOLENCE IN INSTITUTIONS
Peter Newell, the Joint Coordinator of the Global Initiative to End All
Corporal Punishment of Children (www.endcorporalpunishment.org),
based in UK.
His primary area of work is campaigning against currently
legalised violence against children. The Global Initiative is submitting a
report to the Consultation on the issue which includes state-by-state
analysis of the legal status and prevalence of corporal punishment in each
state in the region. Mr. Newell is a member of the Editorial Board for the
UNSG's Study on Violence against Children and also a member of the NGO
Advisory Panel for the Study. Frequently he works as a consultant for
UNICEF and was co-author of UNICEF's Implementation Handbook for the
Convention on the Rights of the Child. Mr. Newell attended all the other
regional consultations to date, apart from West Africa. He will be pleased
to give an overview of those regional consultations.
VIOLENCE IN WORK SITUATIONS
Taufan Daumanik, KKSP Indonesia
Taufan Daumanik is one of the pioneers in working with street children
and working children in Indonesia. He and his organization, KKSP as
Education and Information Center for Child Right,which as established in
1987, has worked extensively with the children in the fishing platforms or
jermal and more recently supported relief efforts in Aceh in the aftermath
of the tsunami. The organization works with children who are exploited,
such as street children and working children engaged in child labour.
VIOLENCE IN THE STREET/COMMUNITY
Bernardo Mondragon
(KABATAAN, Philippines)
VIOLENCE IN CYBERSPACE
Elizabeth Protacio-de Castro: UP-CIDS, Philippines
Elizabeth Protacio-de Castro is a child psychologist specialising in
psychosocial care and rehabilitation of child victims of commercial sexual
exploitation (including prostitution, trafficking and child pornography). Dr
Protacio-de Castro heads the Psychosocial Trauma and Human Rights
Programme based at the University of the Philippines’ Centre for
Integrative and Development Studies (UP-CIDS). She collaborated recently
in research for the recently released Child Pornography in the Philippines,
a comprehensive overview of the situation regarding child pornography
and its impacts in that country. Dr Protacio-de Castro is the lead facilitator
for thematic workshops to be held at the East Asia and Pacific Regional
Consultation on Violence against Children, which will be held in Bangkok
from June 14-16.
Will Gardner: Childnet International, UK
Will Gardner is the Research and Policy Manager at Childnet International,
the international children’s charity that is helping to make the Internet a
great and safe place for children (see www.childnet-int.org). Mr Gardner is
a member of the UK Home Office Task Force on child protection on the
internet. This task force initiated a new law that now makes sexual
grooming of children online a criminal offence in the UK. He looks after the
www.chatdanger.com website, and has given advice to thousands of
children and adults who have contacted him via the website on issues
relating to internet safety. Mr Gardner also advises a range of industry
players, other organisations and governments on safety issues. In Japan
in 2003, Mr Gardner with the Internet Association of Japan organised a
conference on children and mobile phones, the first such meeting of its
kind.
Carmen Madriñán, Executive Director, ECPAT International
Ms Madriñán is the co-chair of the Subgroup against the Sexual
Exploitation of Children of the NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights
of the Child. She is a specialist in international educational development
and programmes for children in difficult circumstances, including child
labourers, children of women in prostitution, migrant and indigenous
children, children in conflict with the law, and children displaced or affected
by man-made or natural emergencies. Much of this work has been in South
and East Asia, where Ms Madriñán has lived for 20 years.