ONE GLOBAL NETWORK WORKING TO END CSEC PARIS, FRANCE 2-3 DECEMBER 2014

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1 ONE GLOBAL NETWORK WORKING TO END CSEC PARIS, FRANCE 2-3 DECEMBER 2014

2 2 6 TH ECPAT INTERNATIONAL ASSEMBLY This publication was written and compiled by Emily Ruskin and Karyn Stone with the assistance of Dorothy Rozga, Hélène de Rengervé, Marie-Laure Lemineur, Dorine van der Keur, Junita Upadhyay, Supriya Kasuju and Helen Breese. Special thanks to UNSR Maud de Boer, UNSRSG Marta Santos Pais, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, John Carr, Carol Bellamy, Jaap Doek, Jeremy Hobbs, Catherine Mbengue, Jade Tachie-Menson and the many presenters and participants who gave energy to the 6th ECPAT International Assembly. Design by: Manida Naebklang Cover photo: The 168 participants of the 6 th ECPAT International Assembly gathered in Paris, France 2 December March, 2015 Copyright ECPAT International ECPAT International 328/1 Phayathai Road Ratchathewi Bangkok Tel: , Fax: info@ecpat.net Website:

3 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 2 Official Agenda 3 Opening Dinner Speech by Jean-Cyril Spinetta 7 Opening Plenary Speech by UNSR Maud de Boer-Buquicchio 8 Video Message by UNSRSG Marta Santos Pais 9 Closing Plenary Speech by John Carr 10 Official Assembly Minutes 12 Thematic Sessions 19 Global Study on the Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism 19 World Café 21 Regional Sessions 24 The Pacific 24 East Asia 25 South Asia 26 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 26 Europe and Central Asia 27 Africa 28 North America 30 Latin America 30 List of Participants 32 APPENDICES: Appendix 1 Transcript of Speech by UNSR Maud de Boer-Buquicchio 38 Appendix 2 Transcript of Video Message by UNSRSG Marta Santos Pais 47 Appendix 3 Board of Trustees Chair Report 51 Appendix 4 Board of Trustees Treasurer Report 54 Appendix 5 Board of Trustees Regional and Youth Reports 55 Appendix 6 Executive Director Report 59 Appendix 7 Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism Presentation 69 Appendix 8 Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism Factsheet 71 Appendix 9 World Café Presentation Feedback 73 Appendix 10 Strategic Framework Presentation 77 Appendix 11 Participant Directory 80

4 2 INTRODUCTION The ECPAT International Assembly is the organisation s highest decision making body. Every three years, all member organisations of the ECPAT Network convene to elect a new ECPAT International Board of Trustees and to adopt a Strategic Framework for the following period. The theme of the 6th ECPAT International Assembly was one network working to end CSEC. The 2014 Assembly process was structured to truly embody this theme and prioritise strengthening the ECPAT network. In previous years, the Assembly was held over a three to four day period and included workshops and multiple thematic breakout sessions. The 2014 Assembly however, focused on reinforcing and empowering regional networks through smaller, localised Regional Consultations prior to the twoday global Assembly in Paris, France with the entire ECPAT International Network. The decentralisation and regionalisation of the Assembly process through Regional Consultations made it possible for Network members to have substantive deliberations that were targeted in their content and concrete in their recommendations, laying the foundation for a more robust ECPAT International Network and a greater global impact. Seven Regional Consultations spanned eight months and five continents. These were informed by Regional Overviews that were drafted in preparation for the Consultations, which were then validated and revised during the Consultations. Network members also spent time during the Consultations assessing the achievements and need gaps of the past three years, identifying regional priorities, and making recommendations that would then inform the development of the Strategic Framework. The forward-looking outcomes of these preparations and final Assembly discussions can be found in the Regional Breakout Sessions section on page 24. In addition to official Assembly business, multiple side meetings and consultations were arranged directly preceding and following the event to optimise attendees time in Paris. The following groups met on 2 December 2014: ECPAT International s Child and Youth Advisory Committee council (EICYAC); the Pacific Region Regional Consultation; the outgoing ECPAT International Board of Trustees. 4 December 2014 saw the convening of the following meetings: the incoming ECPAT International Board of Trustees; ECPAT Netherlands Sexual Exploitation of Children and Child Sex Tourism Project; ECPAT International s Child and Youth Participation Programme (Access to Justice). Additionally, the Local Code Representatives (LCRs) of The Code met before Assembly proceedings on 3 December The 6th ECPAT International Assembly was made possible by its generous partners and donors: Air France, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Irish Aid, The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oak Foundation and Sida.

5 OFFICIAL AGENDA 3 Monday, 1 December Time Session 12:00 19:00 Registration 19:00 21:00 Opening of Assembly with Official Dinner Tuesday, 2 December Time Session 08:30 09:00 Welcoming Speech Carol Bellamy, Chair, ECPAT International Board of Trustees In Memoriam: Ronald Michael O Grady and Maureen Seneviratne Katlijn Declercq, Vice Chair, ECPAT International Board of Trustees 09:00 09:30 Opening Plenary Speech Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography 09:30 09:45 (GOVERNANCE SESSION) Approval of Moderator by Assembly Carol Bellamy, Chair, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Moderator Accepts Datuk Dr. Raj Abdul Karim, Vice President, Malaysia Council for Child Welfare Chair Report Carol Bellamy, Chair, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Standing Committee Reports 10:00 10:30 (GOVERNANCE SESSION) Treasurer Report - Finance & Audit Committee David Ould, Treasurer, ECPAT International Board of Trustees

6 4 Time Session Legal & Constitutional Committee Report David Matas, Regional Representative for North America, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Credentials Committee Katlijn Declercq, Vice Chair, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Disciplinary Committee 10:30 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 11:45 (GOVERNANCE SESSION) 11:45 12:15 (GOVERNANCE SESSION) Regional and Youth Representative Reports Executive Director Report Dorothy Rozga, Executive Director, ECPAT International 12:15 12:45 New Member Welcome and National Status Upgrades Announced Carol Bellamy, Chair, ECPAT International Board of Trustees 12:45 13:00 Group Photo 13:00 13:30 (GOVERNANCE SESSION) Regional Meetings for Elections Members convene by region to come to a consensus on regional representative (Moderator to be available to any region with contested election) 13:30 14:30 Lunch Facilitators meeting for World Café 14:30 15:30 (GOVERNANCE SESSION) 15:30 16:00 (GOVERNANCE SESSION) 16:00 16:45 (GOVERNANCE SESSION) Constitutional Amendments Datuk Dr. Raj Abdul Karim, Moderator Officer Elections - Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer Datuk Dr. Raj Abdul Karim, Moderator Nominees for Officer positions Regional Representatives Announced Datuk Dr. Raj Abdul Karim, Moderator Based on regional discussions and elections that have taken place over the lunch period 16:45 17:15 Coffee Break 17:15 18:00 Presentation of Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism Theo Noten, Programme Manager, ECPAT Netherlands Milena Grillo Rivera, ECPAT Representative, Global Study Task Force 19:00 Dinner

7 Wednesday, 3 December 5 Time 09:00 10:30 (GOVERNANCE SESSION) Session Presentation on ECPAT International s Strategic Directions- Plan for the period Vote to Endorse/Adopt Carol Bellamy, Chair, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Dorothy Rozga, Executive Director, ECPAT International Jeremy Hobbs, Advisor, ECPAT International 10:30 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 13:00 World Café on Thematic Issues 13:00 15:00 Working lunch, including Regional Sessions To agree on key actions to be undertaken by region and to implement the priorities and strategies of the Strategic Directions 15:00 16:00 Reporting back on World Café and Regional Sessions Jeremy Hobbs, Advisor, ECPAT International 16:00 16:30 Awards Ceremony Presented by Carol Bellamy, Chair, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Awards for outgoing Board Members Alan Bell and Maureen Crombie EICYAC 16:30 17:00 Closing Plenary Speech John Carr, Advisor, ECPAT International 17:00 17:30 Vote of Thanks Closure of Assembly Carol Bellamy, Chair, ECPAT International Board of Trustees 19:00 Dinner Side Meetings Monday 1 December 09:00 12:00 EICYAC Meeting 09:00 12:00 Pacific Regional Consultation 14:00 16:00 Outgoing Board Meeting Wednesday 3 December 07:30 08:30 Breakfast Meeting for The Code (Local Code Representatives)

8 6 Thursday 4 December 09:00 11:00 Incoming Board Meeting 09:00 13:00 ECPAT Netherlands Sexual Exploitation of Children and Child Sex Tourism Project Meeting 10:00 17:00 Child and Youth Participation Programme Meeting (Access to Justice)

9 OPENING DINNER AND SPEECH 7 Jaap Doek, moderator of the 2011 Assembly, welcomed participants and introduced Carol Bellamy, Chair of the ECPAT International Board of Trustees, to formally welcome the dinner s honoured guests, Jean-Cyril Spinetta, former CEO of Air France-KLM and ECPAT s first Honorary Ambassador Extraordinaire, and Patricia Manent, Directrice adjointe des Affaires Publiques d Air France. As the former CEO of Air France-KLM and their current honorary President, Mr. Spinetta is one of the earliest crusaders in the fight to end the sexual exploitation of children in the travel and tourism industry. In his keynote speech following dinner, he reflected on the synergies existing between the ECPAT movement and the private sector, such as his participation in the High-Level Task Force of the Global Study of Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism and his wish for all major airlines to participate in the Global Study launch in Mr. Spinetta reiterated the importance of his involvement in supporting NGOs like ECPAT International and how the harmonising of their respective agendas can create opportunities both for the private and civil society sectors. Ms. Bellamy then reminded participants of Air France s historical support of ECPAT throughout the years: Air France was the first French airline in 1998 to attract the attention of its passengers to the tragedy of the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism by screening on board its long-haul flights a movie realised in cooperation with ECPAT France. This video informed passengers that travel no longer equals impunity; in 1994, French law criminalised any sexual abuse of a child whether abroad or in France, punishable by incarceration and a heavy fine. Air France also contributed to the adoption of the IATA resolution (Association of International Airlines) in November 1996, which condemns the commercial sexual exploitation of children and encourages actions implemented by the airlines. More recently, in July and August 2014, Air France disseminated educational messages on-board its flights to Brazil to raise awareness and prevent the risk of child prostitution in the context of the FIFA World Cup. As part of its commitment to ECPAT, Air France donated all proceeds from long-haul flights on-board sales of the Aviator teddy bear and 5 in 1 pen to ECPAT International. For Air France s outstanding contributions to the fight against CSEC, Ms. Bellamy presented an honorary award to Ms. Manent, who received it on behalf of Air France. Ms. Manent was directly involved in the creation and dissemination of the in-flight anti-csec public service videos in her former capacity in Air France s Communications Department. The evening concluded with Ms. Bellamy presenting a surprise honorary award to Mr. Spinetta for his role as ECPAT s first Honorary Ambassador, member of the High-Level Global Task Force, and his faithful support of ECPAT International throughout the years.

10 8 OPENING PLENARY SPEECH The world celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) just two weeks before the ECPAT Network convened in Paris for the 6th ECPAT International Assembly. Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, opened her plenary address to the Assembly by commemorating the Convention s anniversary. Rather than focusing on the milestones and achievements of the past twenty-five years however, Special Rapporteur de Boer s speech appealed to the audience for action to help close the implementation gap still facing the CRC. 01 LINK TO TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH She then went on to highlight the thematic priorities of her mandate, particularly: the sexual exploitation of children through information and communications technology (especially child pornography); the recovery and reintegration of victims of commercial sexual exploitation; and continuing the thematic priorities of her predecessors, namely the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism and the universal criminalisation of the sexual exploitation of children. Special Rapporteur de Boer described her strategy for a system that would prevent and protect children from sexual abuse online as being two-pronged. The first component of such a strategy is driven by stronger international cooperation and the universal adoption of legislation criminalising all actors involved in the exploitation of children through online child pornography. The second component is the digital empowerment of children and adults to prevent abuses and foster the digital literacy needed to report abuses or seek recourse. The Special Rapporteur also identified specific areas of cooperation between ECPAT and her Mandate, namely: working to close the implementation gap of the CRC and Optional Protocol to create greater global access to justice and remedies; addressing victims voices with special consideration for gender-specific needs; consulting with individual ECPAT Network member groups to gain insight into national and regional CSEC issues; the production of evidence-based research for use in global monitoring, advocacy and the creation of a CSEC policy forum; and other collaborations that will help keep the sexual exploitation of children on the post-2015 global agenda. Special Rapporteur de Boer ended her speech by challenging the audience to reverse the trend of commercial sexual exploitation of children by the 20th anniversary of the Stockholm Congress in 2016: let s get back to work, to finish our unfinished business.

11 VIDEO MESSAGE 9 Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) on Violence against Children, addressed the plenary via video message on 3 December 2014, expressing her solidarity with the ECPAT movement and her best wishes for a successful Assembly. 02 LINK TO TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO MESSAGE SRSG Pais began her message by reminding viewers that children are true subjects of rights and agents of change, as put forth in the CRC. Though the CRC turned twenty-five years old just days before the Assembly, the values and ideals of the Convention have not changed. Indeed, Special Representative Pais reminded the audience that now more than ever, we must focus and persevere towards the realisation of the human rights of all children, everywhere and at all times. SRSG Pais proposed creating and emphasising connections as the means to achieving this goal: connecting to children s voices; connecting ECPAT s work to measured impact through consolidated data and research; connect[ing] to the global agenda on the realisation of children s rights ; connecting audiences to the realities of CSEC through awareness raising; and connecting the global, regional and national agendas. The year 2016 will mark the 20th anniversary of the Stockholm first World Congress against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, the 10th anniversary of the UN Study on Violence against Children, and a repositioning of global priorities through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals that will be adopted in September The SRSG reminded the audience that this confluence of events presents a prime opportunity to raise the human dignity of the child above any political, cultural or legal difference persisting in our societies. The video message is available on YouTube under the title, SRSG message ECPAT.

12 10 CLOSING PLENARY SPEECH John Carr, ECPAT International s Senior Advisor for online child safety, is a preeminent global expert and commentator on the protection of children online. He advises the Government of the United Kingdom and other international organisations on child abuse images online and other forms of commercial sexual exploitation of children. He is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Mr. Carr opened his speech on 4 December 2014 by reminding the audience that the internet has become such an important part of daily life in the modern world that the global discussion will never again be about whether or not national governments should embrace the medium. Instead, discussions will now focus on how governments can ensure that the internet is contributing to their national economic performance. In the early days of the internet it was a veritable Wild West. Largely unregulated and growing very rapidly, the world witnessed a huge growth in the online commercial sexual abuse of children, particularly in respect to child abuse images (child pornography). Even today, governments can be very slow to react and are particularly ill-equipped to respond to several types of internet threats and crimes. Mr. Carr therefore maintained that change and the better protection of children online will have to come from, and be driven by, the private sector through technological innovation. He cited the UK police, generally considered to be among the best trained police forces in the world, as being the first national law enforcement agency to admit publicly that they were struggling to deal with both the volume of offenders who were engaging with child abuse images online and with the number of images now available...in INTERPOL knew of only 4,000 child pornographic images that had been seized in all parts of the world. In a two year period in it was estimated that in excess of 360 million child abuse images were circulating online in the UK alone, and there was no reason to suppose the UK was in any major material way very different from a great many other countries in the developed world. Even in the UK, with a strong legal code criminalising online child abuse images and a police force and criminal justice system striving to enforce it, only a fraction of perpetrators dealing in online child pornography are arrested per year. When examining this crisis globally, especially in developing regions where wireless technologies are being adopted at much faster rates than legal and protection infrastructures can grow to meet them, the opportunities for criminals to become involved in online offending against children are great. Thus, Mr. Carr emphasised the importance of the role to be

13 played by private sector technology companies and civil society organisations such as ECPAT. [W]e have to look to the industry and to improved technical solutions if we are ever to conquer the challenge of online child abuse images. A key task which ECPAT International has is to engage with the technology companies to encourage them and help fulfil that mission. 11

14 12 OFFICIAL ASSEMBLY MINUTES Welcome Minutes of the meeting of the 6 th ECPAT International Assembly held in Paris, France on 2-3 December The Chair of the ECPAT International Board of Trustees (the Board), Carol Bellamy, formally opened the 6th ECPAT International Assembly. 2. The Chair welcomed the 168 participants of the 6th International Assembly, including 140 delegates and observers from ECPAT member organisations. The Chair acknowledged special guests: Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography; Jaap Doek, Moderator for the 2011 ECPAT International Assembly; Datuk Dr. Raj Abdul Karim, Moderator nominee; and Jo de Linde, previous Board Chair, ECPAT International Board of Trustees. 3. Apologies and absences of note included: Bernadette McMenamin, Regional Board Representative for the Pacific; Ann Byrne, Standing Candidate for Treasurer of the Board; Erika Georg-Monney, Standing Candidate for Regional Representative forwestern Europe; and Cielo Salviolo, Standing Candidate for Regional Representative for Latin America. 4. Words of rememberance for Ron O Grady and Maureen Seneviratne led by Katlijn Declercq, Vice Chair of the Board. 5. Opening plenary speech by UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Maud de Bour-Buquicchio. Approval of Moderator 6. The Chair introduced the Moderator nominated by the Board, Datuk Dr. Raj Abdul Karim. A motion was passed to accept the Moderator. Moved: Theo Noten (ECPAT Netherlands) Seconded: Purna Roy Chowdhury (SANLAAP) Carried

15 Approval of Minutes A motion was passed to approve the 5th ECPAT International Assembly Minutes. Moved: Indrani Sinha (SANLAAP) Seconded: Cleophas Mally (WAO-Afrique) Carried Approval of Standing Orders 8. A motion was passed to approve the Proposed Standing Orders circulated in advance of the Assembly. Moved: Justa Mwaituka (KIWOHEDE) Seconded: Bisi Olateru-Olagbegi (WOCON) Carried Approval of Agenda 9. A motion was passed to approve the Agenda for the 6th ECPAT International Assembly. Moved: Milena Grillo Rivera (Fundación PANIAMOR) Seconded: Justa Mwaitka (KIWOHEDE) Carried Board and Committee Reports 10. Carol Bellamy, Chair of the Board, presented the official Chair Report for the period (see Appendix 3) 11. The audited statements of assets, liabilities and fund balances of ECPAT International for the years ending 30 June 2012, 30 June 2013 and 30 June 2014, as well as related statements of income and expenditure was reported by the Treasurer, David Ould, along with the Finance & Audit Committee Report for the period A motion was passed to approve the audited financial statement for the years ending 30 June 2012, 30 June 2013 and 30 June (see Appendix 4) Moved: Justa Mwaituka (KIWOHEDE) Seconded: Indrani Sinha (SANLAAP) Carried 13. David Matas, Chair of the Legal and Constitutional Committee, reported on the business of the Committee for the period Katlijn Declercq, Chair of the Credentials Committee, reported on new affiliations, membership upgrades and disaffiliations for the period

16 The Moderator announced that there was nothing to report from the Disciplinary Committee for the period Regional Reports (see Appendix 5) 16. The Regional Representative for Western Europe, Katlijn Declercq, reported on the Western European Region for the period The Regional Representative for Eastern and Central Europe, Maia Rusakova, reported on the Eastern and Central Europe Region for the period The Regional Representative for Africa, Zingui Messomo, reported on the Africa Region for the period The Regional Representative for South Asia, Sumnima Tuladhar, reported on the South Asia Region for the period The Regional Representative for North America, David Matas, reported on the North America Region for the period The Regional Representative for Latin America, Lesly Zambrano Moreno, reported on the Latin America Region for the period In the absence of the Regional Representative for the Pacific, Steve Betinsky, Child Wise (Australia) reported on the Pacific Region for the period The Youth Representative to the Board, Valentyna Mudrik, reported on child and youth participation activities for the period The Regional Representative for East Asia was unable to present on 2 December during the Board reporting session. Subsequently, the East Asia report for the period was presented by Ahmad Sofian on 3 December. Executive Director Report 25. Dorothy Rozga, Executive Director of ECPAT International, presented the Executive Director Report for the period (see Appendix 6) New Member Welcome 26. The Chair congratulated CPA Gambia and CLOSE (Benin) for becoming National members of ECPAT International. 27. The Chair welcomed all new members of ECPAT International and presented representatives from the new member organisations in attendance with a membership certificate: Samoa Victim Support Group Hope and Help (Armenia)

17 Azerbaijan Children s Union Public Health Foundation of Georgia ANTD (Niger) RENEW (Bhutan) (absent) Association Bayti (Morocco) (absent) AMANE (Morocco) (absent) 15 Appointments The Moderator appointed the following ECPAT International Secretariat staff to serve as observers for regional voting: To observe the Latin America Region vote, Marie-Laure Lemineur; To observe the Pacific Region vote, Hélène de Rengervé; To observe the North America Region vote, Erwin Mom; To observe the Central and Western Africa Region vote, Catherine Mbengue; To observe the Southern and Eastern Africa Region vote, Emily Ruskin; To observe the East Asia Region vote, Dorine van der Keur; To observe the South Asia Region vote, Sheila Varadan; To observe the Western Europe Region vote, Mariana Yevsyukova; To observe the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region vote, Olha Shved. The Moderator appointed the following ECPAT International Secretariat staff to serve as enumerators: Erwin Mom Junita Upadhyay Dorine van der Ker Sheila Varadan Constitutional Amendments rd Proposal 28. A motion was passed to approve the proposal for a Constitutional Amendment that was put forth by the Board and relates to Articles 7.1 through 7.5 of the Constitution and Article 4.4 relating to ECPAT s By-Laws. The Board proposed to adjust the policy for amendments to the Constitution and allow the Board to implement amendments that are not substantive in nature. The Constitution of ECPAT International Article 7.1 shall be amended to read: a) The Constitution may be amended substantively at an International Assembly or by /mail voting by the ECPAT International membership by a majority vote of not less than two thirds of the full membership. Proxy votes shall be permitted (in accordance with the provisions of Article 2.11). b) Linguistic amendments to the constitution not involving changes of substance may be made by the Board. The International Assembly will be notified of any proposed non-substantive amendments. Following this notice, in the absence of any objections, the Board may proceed with the amendment.

18 16 The Constitution of ECPAT International Articles shall be amended and all use of the term amendment shall be replaced by substantive amendment. The Constitution of ECPAT International Article 4.4 shall be amended to read: a) By-laws may be amended, substituted or added to substantively by motion of the International Assembly or by /mail voting by the ECPAT International membership on the basis of a simple majority of the votes cast. By-laws may be amended, substituted or added to linguistically without changing the substance by the Board. Moved by: David Matas (ECPAT International Board of Trustees) Seconded: Steve Betinsky (Child Wise) Carried Member Proposal 29. A motion was passed to approve the proposal for a Constitutional Amendment that was put forth by the Membership which relates to the ECPAT Constitution. The proposal calls to change the name of the Eastern and Central Europe Region to the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Region. It was also noted that the Eastern Europe and Central Asia and the Western Europe regions will work together as one region. The Constitution of ECPAT International shall be amended and all use of the region name Eastern and Central Europe shall be replaced by Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Moved by: Maia Rusakova (ECPAT International Board of Trustees) Seconded: Adem Arkadas (Turkish Network Against CSEC) Carried Election of Officers to the ECPAT Board of Trustees 30. The following persons presented their candidature for election to the Board: Carol Bellamy, standing for Chair; Katlijn Declercq, standing for Vice Chair; A statement was read on behalf of Ann Byrne, standing for Treasurer. 31. Carol Bellamy was elected Chair of the Board. 32. Katlijn Declercq was elected Vice Chair of the Board. 33. Ann Byrne was elected Treasurer of the Board. Election of the Regional Representatives 34. Presentations were received by the following candidates to each of their respective regions: Erika Georg-Monney via video message (Western Europe); Maia Rusakova (Eastern Europe and Central Asia); Li-Feng Lee (East Asia); Steve Betinsky (The Pacific); Cielo Salviola via video message (Latin America); Carol Smolenski (North

19 America); Sumnima Tuladhar (South Asia); Zingui Messomo (Central and West Africa); and Justa Mwaituka (Eastern and Southern Africa) Erika Georg-Monney was elected Regional Representative for Western Europe. 36. Maia Rusakova was elected Regional Representative for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. 37. Li-Feng Lee was elected Regional Representative for East Asia. 38. Steve Betinsky was elected Regional Representative for the Pacific. 39. Cielo Salviolo was elected Regional Representative for Latin America. 40. Carol Smolenski was elected Regional Representative for North America. 41. Sumnima Tuladhar was elected Regional Representative for South Asia. 42. Zingui Messomo was elected Regional Representative for Central and Western Africa. 43. Justa Mwaituka was elected Regional Representative for Southern and Eastern Africa. Presentation 44. Milena Grillo Rivera, ECPAT Representative on the Global Study Task Force, presented the Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism with Theo Noten, ECPAT Netherlands; Dorothy Rozga, ECPAT International; and Dorine van der Keur, ECPAT International. Strategic Directions 45. The ECPAT International Strategic Framework and beyond was presented by Executive Director, Dorothy Rozga. A motion was passed to adopt the Strategic Framework document. Moved by: Milena Grillo Rivera (Fundación PANIAMOR) Seconded: Indrani Sinha (SANLAAP) Carried Regional and Thematic Sessions 46. Participants attended regional meetings and thematic sessions in a World Cafe format. Each region reported back to the Assembly on the outcomes of their discussions and proposed actions for their regions.

20 18 Awards 47. The Chair formally recognised former Board members Alan Bell and Maureen Crombie, who served during the past term. 48. The Chair formally recognised the following outgoing members of the ECPAT International Board of Trustees: David Ould, David Matas, Lesly Zambrano Moreno, Valentyna Mudrik, Ahmad Sofian and Bernadette McMenamin. 49. The Chair formally recognised the following outgoing EICYAC members: Arly Akerstream, Aime Jobe and Eugenia Maxim. Close 50. John Carr, ECPAT International s Senior Expert Advisor for online child safety, presented the closing plenary address. 51. The Chair gave closing remarks and especially thanked all of the 6th ECPAT International Assembly supporters: Air France, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Irish Aid, Government of the Netherlands. OAK Foundation, and the SIDA. 52. The Chair recognised the generous support provided by project funds through ECPAT Netherlands to cover the travel expenses of some Assembly participants. The Chair also recognised the support of ECPAT Taiwan, ECPAT Luxembourg, and ECPAT France for supporting regional consultations in Southeast Asia, South Asia and Africa. The Chair expressed gratitude to Dr. Raj Karim for serving as Moderator. She also expressed gratitude to the Executive Director and Secretariat staff for their work on the 6th ECPAT International Assembly. 53. The Chair officially closed the meeting. PREPARED AS A TRUE AND CORRECT RECORD OF THE 6th ECPAT INTERNATIONAL ASSEMBLY, PARIS, FRANCE HELD ON 2-3 December 2014 CHAIR Carol Bellamy Note: During the Meeting, the Chair informed the Assembly that there were no applications received following a call for nominations for the Youth Representative to the Board or the Regional Representative for the MENA Region. The positions will remain vacant until further notice. Furthermore, the process of forming a new ECPAT International Child and Youth Advisory Committee was postponed until an assessment on young people s role in ECPAT Governance was finalised.

21 THEMATIC SESSIONS 19 Global Study on the Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism Presented by Milena Grillo, Director of Paniamor (ECPAT affiliate member in Costa Rica); Theo Noten, Programme Manager, ECPAT Netherlands; and Dorine Van der Keur, Director of the Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism The sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (CSTT) was recognised as a phenomenon of global dimensions at the first World Congress against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Stockholm in The phenomenon has further transformed and worsened since that time; offenders are increasingly adept at using the travel and tourism industry as a route to child exploitation. The sheer speed and scale of this crime has outpaced attempts to respond at the international, regional and national levels. ECPAT International is leading a response in collaboration with several partners by undertaking a Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism. The Study is funded by the Dutch Government in cooperation with ECPAT Netherlands, with additional funding from Sida and Oak Foundation. The Global Study is expected to provide an updated picture of the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, as well as recommendations for response through a Global Study Report and several regional reports. The Study is guided by a multi-stakeholder High-Level Taskforce with members from a wide range of backgrounds contributing to the study, including governmental, non-governmental and private sectors. Based on the Study findings, a plan for action will be developed by the High-Level Taskforce in order to mobilise commitment for evidencebased action across relevant sectors. 03 LINK TO GLOBAL STUDY PRESENTATION 04 LINK TO GLOBAL STUDY FACTSHEET

22 20 The High-Level Taskforce guiding the study is composed of the following eminent representatives: 1. Dr. Najat Maalla M jid, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography ( ); 2. Marilyn Carlson Nelson, former Chair and CEO of Carlson, the US-based global travel and hospitality company; 3. Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen, Dutch National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children, 2006 to present; 4. Ernie Allen, former President and CEO of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC); 5. Benyam Dawit Mezmur, Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and Chairperson of the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC); 6. Jean-Cyril Spinetta, Former CEO of Air France-KLM SA; 7. Dr. Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General of the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO); 8. Milena Grillo, Director of Fundación Paniamor. The methodology of the Study is participatory in order to engage the main stakeholders and sectors. Contributions by partners can be made through submissions, adoption of themes, or by including research in the desk study. ECPAT member groups are invited to participate by submitting research on sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism in their country, case studies, or a thematic contribution to the Global Study. Fourteen ECPAT member groups are also conducting research in their respective countries with support from ECPAT Netherlands. For more information or contributions, please contact Ms. Dorine van der Keur, Director Global Study, dorinek@ecpat.net. In addition to the core donors listed above, other funding is still being sought.

23 World Café 21 The World Café model allowed for the relatively large number of participants in the Assembly to have smaller, more personal discussions around structured themes in various languages. Assembly attendees were invited to participate in three sessions from the following eight themes: Access to Justice, Child Marriage and CSEC, Child Pornography (child sex abuse materials), Child Trafficking, Data Collection and Research, Victims Voices, Voluntourism, and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism Study (CSTT). Each thirty minute session built upon the input and ideas from the previous group to encourage 05 LINK TO WORLD CAFÉ PRESENTATION FEEDBACK rich discussion through the examination and fusion of multiple viewpoints. Each session was offered in English and Spanish as well as French or Russian to encourage natural dialogue and deeper discussion. Following the sessions, brief summaries were delivered to the plenary on the overarching issues identified for each theme, capacities for action or change, and potential ways in which Network members can respond. The thematic summaries are as follows, with facilitators in brackets: 1. Access to Justice (Jaap Doek and Susana Greijer): The issues raised by participants in the Access to Justice session focused on the urgent need to improve child victims ability to access remedies and reparations for sexual exploitation. For instance, participants identified an absence of child-friendly information and the need to empower children to understand their right to seek and obtain remedies and reparations for sexual exploitation. Participants also identified the problem of secondary trauma during the judicial process as a result of an absence of justice mechanisms that are sensitive to the needs of child victims. Another key issue was the inadequacy of current remedies and reparations to effectively address the needs of child victims. Recovery and reintegration programmes were cited as a particular example. Equally, the legal infrastructure for child victims to seek and obtain compensation, restitution or other financial assistance was lacking or in some cases non-existent. Through the World Café exchanges, participants identified multiple ways to address these issues, including: legal advocacy at the international level to push for more robust international standards and laws to protect the rights of child victims; clearer guidelines to ECPAT member groups and other civil society groups on how they may better assist child victims in accessing justice and remedies; national advocacy campaigns targeting law reform, and pushing for better recovery and reintegration services for children; and public awareness campaigns to address the cultural attitudes and social norms that continue to interfere with children s ability to speak out and access justice and remedies for violations their rights. Examples of potential interventions included assisting the Committee on the Rights of the Child in drafting a General Comment on the right of child victims to access justice and remedies for their rights violations; strategic litigation at the national or regional level to obtain law reform; and joint regional and international advocacy with UN Human Rights bodies or Regional Human Rights mechanisms.

24 22 2. Child Marriage and CSEC (Eliana Riggio Chaudhuri, Olha Shved and Catherine Mbengue): Participants identified several issues, which needed to be addressed on the topic of child marriage: national laws, policies and practices which enable and facilitate child marriage; social norms, including socio-cultural sexual norms which enable or trigger child marriage; and inadequate legal infrastructure to protect children from all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation, including child marriage. ECPAT has the ability to address child marriage through advocacy and raising global awareness on the link between child marriage and CSEC, partner providing evidence on the impact of child marriage on children. Opportunities to address child marriage are in using evidence of the connection between child marriage and CSEC to strengthen global advocacy, advocacy for national legislation and policy on child marriage, and strengthening community safety nets for children to postpone the age of marriage and to keep children in school. 3. Child Pornography/Child Sex Abuse Materials (John Carr and Marie-Laure Lemineur): The salient issues which need to be addressed on the issue of child pornography (child sex abuse materials) are prevention and education through sex education and teaching risks and resilience; technology (both the ways in which technology can facilitate different types of criminal behaviour as well as teaching parents and young people technology essentials so they can take appropriate defensive actions); and cross-sector collaboration to support victims and bring perpetrators to justice. These issues can be addressed through shared learning at all levels (facilitated by ECPAT), developing a database of resources, and by building alliances and relationships for research. More specifically, this requires ECPAT to lead a global campaign, generate baseline research on the topic, sensitise and train law enforcement/judiciary, and to create strategic partnerships with the private sector to address the technological aspects of the phenomenon. 4. Child Trafficking (Katlijn Declercq and Maria Eugenia Villareal): In this session, participants felt the key issues relating to child trafficking are sexual exploitation of children and structural factors of vulnerability, internal trafficking within countries and regions, and specific cross-border situations, such as between the US and Mexico. Capacities for change were mostly identified as campaigning as a global network and creating a global movement that links the work of ECPAT on trafficking to related issues such as labour and migration. Specific actions that can be taken are holding duty bearers to account for the implementation of international, regional and national standards; focusing on demand and supply at national levels; strengthening individual ECPAT member groups capacity to act; and bringing direct global attention to the rights of victims. 5. Data Collection and Research (Maia Rusakova): The topic of data collection and research spans every facet of commercial sexual exploitation of children. Participants in this session acknowledged the lack of data on current trends and situations, common tendencies, challenges, and the limited level of awareness and engagement by stakeholders on CSEC in nearly every region. Knowledge gaps on CSEC particularly exist with respect to offenders, victims from middle class families, and the costs and effectiveness of prevention and rehabilitation programmes. Globally, there is a lack of longitudinal research focused on victims and survivors of CSEC. Capacities

25 for change are in action-oriented and child-focused research approaches, ECPAT-led development of ethical standards and research framework, and capitalisation on ECPAT s existing knowledge (data and research protocols). Actions should be divided into local, regional and global responses. At the local level, basic studies on CSEC, stakeholders and public opinion should be undertaken by ECPAT members, followed by the development of national monitoring systems. The regional and global levels require an effectiveness study on prevention and rehabilitation programmes for victims of CSEC Voices of Victims (Mariana Yevsyukova, Dr. Katherine Hargitt and Valentyna Mudrik): The key obstacles to incorporating voices of victims into ECPAT s work are a lack of child protection mechanisms that engage and consider victims voices (nonexploitative, non-traumatising, non-stigmatising); the sheer diversity of voices (gender, socio-economic status, disabilities, etc.); motives for incorporating victims voices that are in the best interests of the child; and the right of the child to choose his or her medium of communication as well as the right to abstain from involvement. ECPAT s capacity to engage and incorporate victims voices stems from its years of experience working with victims and encouraging child and youth participation; the ability to provide different forms of communication media (word, music, arts, etc.); its child protection policies and Code of Ethics; and the professional expertise and capacity building tools of its members. Action areas which ECPAT should focus on vary by location. At the local level, network members should elaborate on, adopt and implement victim protection policies and ethical codes of conduct. At the regional level, member groups are encouraged to share their experiences and best practices, while at the global level the network as a whole should work on capacity building and formulating guidelines for engaging and considering voices of victims. 7. Volun-tourism (Mechtild Maurer and Dorothea Czarnecki): The primary issue facing abuses that occur within a volun-tourism context is that volun-tourism currently lacks a definition, making it difficult to study or combat in a strategic way. There is also a need for a clear child protection policy which outlines risks and protections. The Code, which focuses specifically on the tourism industry, is tasked with creating and safeguarding children in these environments. Aside from The Code, ECPAT also has the capacity to act through the adoption of global standards by network member groups at the local level. ECPAT International has the capacity to create a database on volun-tourism best practices (standards, blacklists, business names, etc.) as well as a repository of relevant stakeholders at local and regional levels. To act on this capacity, ECPAT must produce more research, which should include proposed legislation and international guidelines. This research can then be used at the regional level to raise awareness and at the local level to train stakeholders and member groups.

26 24 8. Global Study on CSTT (Milena Grillo): Participants recognised the key issues the CSTT Study must address as: keeping up with new trends in travel and tourism; CSTT related governance and legislation; the methods, modus operandi and new forms of crime. ECPAT s reputation and technical expertise of network members are critical tools which can be maximised to address these issues, to secure the quality of the research process and its results, and to ensure mechanisms are in place to incorporate voices of the child victim in the Study. Greater visibility and strengthened partnerships with key UN and regional entities can be gained through a global campaign, while individual member groups should focus on engaging local private sectors and civil society organisations (CSOs). Once concluded, the ECPAT Network will be an excellent means through which to share and promote good practices identified by the Study. Regional Sessions Delegates were given the opportunity to convene by region during the Assembly to agree upon key actions to be undertaken during the period and to discuss how to best implement the key priorities and strategies of the Strategic Framework in their respective regions. These regional meetings were chaired by the Regional Board Representatives for each region. One rapporteur per region then reported to the plenary on the outcomes of their discussion and proposed actionsby region. The reports are as follows: 06 LINK TO STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK PRESENTATION THE PACIFIC Chaired and reported by Steve Betinksy Child Wise, Australia 1. The Pacific Region proposes to undertake a regional review of organisations operating in the Pacific to counter CSEC, so as to gain the necessary insight into potential partners in the fight against CSEC across the region. 2. The Pacific Region plans to hold a regional symposium in Fiji, with a projected date of late fall The symposium will include a broad range of stakeholders and relevant organisations and individuals from the region: CSOs, INGOs such as Save the Children, tourism operators, law enforcement, and government agencies working on child-related issues.

27 3. Following the regional symposium, the Pacific Network plans to distil the key regional priorities as they relate to CSEC and the ECPAT Strategic Framework. From these outcomes, the region plans to develop a position paper to crystallise its regional priorities and gain candidates for network expansion in the region The priorities identified from the symposium will inform the development of a regional awareness and fundraising campaign that the Pacific Region will run leading up to the 20th anniversary of the World Congress in The proposed position paper will inform funding submissions to deliver outcomes in regional priority areas. EAST ASIA Chaired by Li-Feng Lee ECPAT Taiwan Reported by Dolores Alforte ECPAT Philippines 1. The East Asia Region aims to strengthen and expand the ECPAT Network in its geographical area through a multipronged approach. By renaming the region the East and Southeast Asia Region, the group hopes to be more inclusive and have a wider reach. The East Asia Region proposes expanding the ECPAT Network to include a stronger presence and possible Network membership of organisations in the following priority countries: Myanmar, Laos PDR, Timor Leste, Malaysia and China. Such expansion may be possible through ECPAT members in the region who have existing contacts or working relationships with organisations in priority countries, or the designation of a Regional Coordinator. The East Asia Region suggests that further examination of expansion in the region, specifically in China, is undertaken during the Global CSTT study. In tandem with expanding the ECPAT Network, the East Asia Region sees this time as an opportunity to heighten the standards and implement more stringent requirements to ECPAT membership. 2. The East Asia Region s second goal is to launch a global campaign to end CSEC in advance of the th anniversary of the first World Congress. Before formally launching a campaign, members will seek to gain an overview of other regional CSOs and government agencies working to counter CSEC to identify potential campaign partners. The East Asia region hopes to tailor the campaign to an Asian audience and leverage relationships with ASEAN to collaborate with ASEAN Social Committee partners. The Regional Network also proposes using Malaysia the host of the 2015 ASEAN and ISPCAN meetings as a focal point from which to launch the campaign. The East Asia Region recognises that any campaign will have to involve youth activists and take children s voices into consideration.

28 26 SOUTH ASIA Chaired by Sumnima Tuladhar CWIN-Nepal Reported by Purna Roy Chowdhury SANLAAP, India 1. The South Asia Region plans to organise a regional meeting of ECPAT Network affiliate members in March of The meeting will seek to further elaborate on ECPAT s Strategic Framework and from these discussions, agree upon a strategic regional plan of action with delineated outcomes. Aside from the Strategic Framework, a planned topic of discussion at the regional meeting will be exploring the possibility of a South Asia joint campaign to mark the 20th anniversary of the first World Congress in Additionally, the regional meeting will seek to address the use of the name ECPAT South Asia for all joint activities or large regional gatherings. 2. The South Asia Region proposes a strengthened focus on ECPAT Network membership standards. The group asks that monitoring tools be developed in conjunction with the International Secretariat for member and affiliate groups to use in setting, maintaining, and reviewing performance goals. MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA (MENA) Reported by Muntaha Al Harasis Jordan River Foundation 1. MENA s main priority is to grow its membership to include more regional Network partners. MENA was represented by Jordan and Lebanon during Assembly regional breakout sessions (Morocco and Mauritania were not present). Their primary targets for new membership are Egypt and Syria. Both Jordan and Lebanon plan to exercise their contact network to seek opportunities for ECPAT growth in those countries. 2. Though not specifically an action that will be undertaken by the MENA network members, it was decided that ECPAT Country Monitoring Reports are greatly needed for Jordan and Lebanon. ECPAT International Secretariat staff discussed the development of these studies with MENA representatives and agreed to produce reports in 2015.

29 EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA 27 Chaired and reported by Maia Rusakova Stellit, Russia and Mechtild Maurer ECPAT Germany With regard to the Strategic Framework Goal 4, Develop and strengthen the ECPAT Network, the Europe and Central Asia Region acknowledges that their regional network includes many new member organisations which require knowledge-building and tools on different aspects of combating commercial sexual exploitation of children (awareness raising, prevention, providing assistance to child survivors, conducting research, etc.). The Region proposes the development of a Toolkit for new ECPAT members which could be used not only in Europe and Central Asia but in other regions as well. 1. With a view to develop the ECPAT International network, Europe and Central Asia suggest the network should be further extended in the region to include partners in Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Balkan states, Central Asian countries and the Caucasus. 2. In terms of strengthening the ECPAT Network, the region suggests that cooperation between different ECPAT groups in the Europe and Central Asia Region should be further developed. Small and large-scale joint projects involving two or more ECPAT groups from the region are an effective means for cooperation development. As such, regional member groups should seek funding opportunities for possible joint projects. Such cooperation could comprise various aspects of combating child prostitution, child pornography, trafficking of children for sexual purposes, and sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism via the following media: awareness raising; prevention of child involvement in commercial sexual exploitation; strengthening protection and support of vulnerable groups of children including Roma, street children, orphans, and migrant children; research on the current trends in commercial sexual exploitation of children in the region; providing child survivors with comprehensive assistance; and meaningful child and youth participation in combating commercial sexual exploitation of children. Regarding the Strategic Framework Goal 2, Build a global campaign to end CSEC leading up to 2016, the region proposes a joint initiative which could be implemented in the region in 2016 which focuses on raising public awareness on the issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children. The Don t Look Away Campaign which has been successfully implemented in some countries of the region could be further strengthened and expanded to more countries in the region. The region acknowledges the importance of involving youth in the implementation of campaigns, as well as developing partnerships with private companies (e.g. Facebook and Google for a campaign related to online safety, etc.)

30 28 3. In addition to its Strategic Framework goals, the Region recommends that relationships with the Council of Europe, European Commission, OSCE, Council of Baltic Sea States, and the European Union Civil Society Platform against trafficking in human beings should be further strengthened to increase ECPAT representation in these arenas and to lobby for better protection of children from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation. The region recognises communication between regional ECPAT groups and these institutions should be better coordinated for the greatest impact. AFRICA Chaired and reported by Zingui Messomo ASSEJA, Cameroon and Justa Mwaituka KIWOHEDE, Tanzania Recorded by Benjamin Waburoko ECPAT Uganda 1. In agreement with the Strategic Framework Goal 3, Convene and broker leadingedge research, knowledge creation and dissemination, the Africa Region agreed to focus its data collection and analysis efforts on the following target areas: the relationship between child marriage and other forms of CSEC; pan-african research on sexual exploitation of children online; and adding to the data available on commercial sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism to inform policy advocacy. The Region plans to undertake research in close collaboration with Pan- African institutions such as the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS Africa) to create regional synergy on CSEC matters. 2. The Africa Region had robust discussion regarding the Strategic Framework Goal 4, Develop and strengthen the ECPAT Network, and specific target outcomes for the related to this goal. a. The group acknowledges the importance of harmonised strategies to present a One Africa united front and sees the Regional Coordinator and the two Regional Representatives to the Board of Trustees as being the driving force in this front. As such, the region agreed that their Board members will visit each Africa Region member organisation at least once in Additionally, the Board members will facilitate the sharing of good practices and experiences between member groups and work with the Regional Coordinator to build capacities on key emerging thematic issues on the sexual exploitation of children in the region, which the group defined as sex tourism, child prostitution, child pornography, child trafficking, online sexual abuse of children, and child marriage. Another aspect of a harmonised strategy will be a consistent use of ECPAT branding by regional network members in campaigns and activities and closer coordination and alignment with European ECPAT network members.

31 b. With respect to outward-looking relationships, the Africa Region would like to add up to twenty new members by 2018, specifically including member organisations in priority countries to be outlined in the Africa work plan. In addition to ECPAT Network relationships, the Africa region also plans to extend and strengthen its strategic partnerships with key regional organisations across all sectors, especially the African Union and its various relevant departments, such as the Department of Social Affairs (DSA), the Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC), the Special Representative of the AUC on the Campaign to End Child Marriage, the Department of Political Affairs (DPA), the Regional Economics Commissions (RECs) and Pan-African human rights and judicial institutions. The Africa Region would like to specifically lobby the African Union to prioritise CSEC issues and to potentially make child sex abuse the theme of the Day of the African Child in Work with key stakeholders in the region was also considered, and a call was made for increased visibility and partnership with key UN agencies, other bilateral and multilaterals entities, INGOs, NGOs, and coalitions (i.e., the Africa-wide Movement for Children, the ACERWC CSO Forum, etc.) at regional and national levels. Those member organisations without close relationships with key stakeholders seek additional support in forming these strategic connections. The entire region concedes that all member organisations must push for national assent to the Optional Protocols 1-3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Member organisations are also encouraged to help their states in contributing to Alternative reports both to the AU and UNCRC. In terms of action with regional governments, African member organisations propose to lobby for legislative reform and implementation of existing legislation at national and local levels to curb demand for child prostitution and domestic workers. As to the private sector, the group discussed teaming with extractive industries, the tourism sector, and national sports ministries to encourage corporate social responsibility and to mainstream child rights in business principles and practices. There was also a call for closer ties with the media to create dialogue to raise awareness on CSEC issues and change negative traditional practices and norms while promoting positive values. 3. Lastly, the Africa Region members pledged to work with their Board Representatives and Regional Coordinator to attract resources to fight CSEC in Africa.

32 30 NORTH AMERICA Chaired and reported by Carol Smolenski ECPAT-USA 1. The North America member groups ECPAT-USA and Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada, will begin to discuss possible collaboration on developing relationships with North American airline carriers. These relationships could include developing and conducting airline staff trainings and in-flight messaging to report abuse. The two organisations also plan to share their respective legislative agendas for discussion. In the realm of child and youth participation, Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada will introduce Arly Akerstream, the North America youth representative to ECPAT International, to ECPAT-USA s youth organiser to share best practices and discuss potential cooperation. Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada has a large volunteer force and will seek a volunteer to write and formalise a joint work plan. Until that time, the two organisations intend to hold monthly phone calls to continue sharing ideas, opportunities to collaborate and project progress. In terms of expanding the North American network to include more members, both groups feel there is not a current need within the region for additional network members at this time. ECPAT-USA and Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada regularly work with a large number of groups across North America in different capacities and there are no identified needs gaps in terms of partnerships. The North America Region does feel however that ECPAT branding should be more unified, with all network members using the name ECPAT in their official organisation s title. The region requests that ECPAT International lead an international communications and branding plan with national groups around national news items or events to better publicize the ECPAT name and brand. 2. In response to the Strategic Framework s Goal 2, build a global campaign to end CSEC leading up to 2016, the North American Region is exploring potential joint events, consultations, etc. There are no current plans to host a joint consultation similar to the event leading up to the World Congress III. LATIN AMERICA Chaired and reported by Lesly Zambrano Renacer, Colombia 1. The Latin America Region discussion focused largely on the Strategic Framework s Goal 4, Develop the ECPAT Network, the results of which are as follows:

33 a. In terms of expanding the network, the region plans to re-establish stronger ties with ECPAT-USA for the purpose of meeting with potential network groups in the Caribbean. ECPAT Dominican Republic will facilitate engagement in the Caribbean. The Latin America also plans to build links with the Northern Triangle, i.e., Honduras, El Salvador and Belize. Connecting with organisations in Honduras could be facilitated by Casa Alianza. Bolivia was also put forward as an opportunity for ECPAT to build a larger network. Latin American groups present at the Assembly commit to contacting organisations in Bolivia regarding ECPAT s current study in the region and to using the information gathered by the study as a platform for local engagement. The same is proposed of Venezuela and Panama. Following the completion of all country monitoring reports, the Latin America Region suggests that the ECPAT Latin America Regional Overview is updated. 31 b. Regarding the membership aspect of developing the ECPAT Network, The Latin America Region encourages ECPAT International to consider organisations capacity and level of commitment to ECPAT s mission when evaluating groups for membership. The Region also stresses the importance of clarifying membership procedures as well as clearly defining the duties, rights and responsibilities of national groups, affiliated groups and coalitions. The Latin America Region would like to see ECPAT International facilitate working partnerships between ECPAT Network members, and calls for the creation of a communication and collaboration protocol to standardise and strengthen relationships across the Network as a whole. 2. The Latin America Region also discussed the Strategic Framework s Goal 2, build a global campaign to end CSEC leading up to The Region recognises the benefit of having a Regional Coordinator and Regional Board representative to help strengthen the Latin America Regional Network. Nonetheless, the Latin America Region highlights the need for a greater emphasis on raising the issue of CSEC to a higher profile on government and other regional agendas. The Region proposes the development of a regional advocacy plan at the first Latin America Regional Network meeting in Cooperation among regional Network member groups should be prioritised to ensure common action on this goal.

34 32 LIST OF PARTICIPANTS 07 LINK TO PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY WITH BIOGRAPHIES First Name Last Name Organisation Bayane Abiola WAO-Afrique (Togo) Norhayati Adnan Malaysian Council of Child Welfare Arly Akerstream EICYAC Amankwaah Akwasi GNCRC (Ghana) Muntaha Al Harasis Jordan River Foundation Fatoumata Alfa Cissé ECPAT France Dolores Alforte ECPAT Philippines Idrissa Amadou ANDT (Niger) Afia Owusuaa Amaning Kwarteng GNCRC (Ghana) Bahar Arabova Azerbaijan Children Union Denisse Araya ONG Raíces (Chile) Andy Ardian ECPAT Indonesia Adem Arkadas Turkish Network against CSEC Mersila Ballo Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania CRCA Bestone Banda CHIN (Zambia) Natalia Bayram La Strada Moldova Carol Bellamy ECPAT International Board of Trustees Steve Betinsky Child Wise (Australia) Talia Bogni ECPAT Switzerland Laura Bosch ECPAT Netherlands David Boulanger ECPAT Belgium Claude Briade ECPAT Luxembourg Hannah Bristow ECPAT Luxembourg Dr. Gerlinde Elisabeth Buechinger-Schmid STOP India

35 First Name Last Name Organisation 33 Maud de Boer-Buquicchio Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography Fernanda Caballero Gurises Unidos (Uruguay) Luz Stella Cárdenas Fundacion Renacer- ECPAT Colombia John Carr ECPAT International Claudia Carvalho Souza Luna Nueva (Paraguay) Gita Chakraborty Ain o Salish Kendra (Bangladesh) Aditi Chanchani EQUATIONS (India) Ketsanee Chantrakul ECPAT Foundation Thailand Yi-Ling Chen ECPAT Taiwan Eléonore Chiossone ECPAT France Narae Choi Tacteen Naeil (South Korea) Ariane Couvreur ECPAT Belgium Dorothea Czarnecki ECPAT Germany Marie Darmayan ECPAT France Jo de Linde Honorary guest Frans de Man ECPAT Switzerland Hélène de Rengerve ECPAT International Iara de Witte ECPAT Netherlands Roma Debabrata STOP India Katlijn Declercq ECPAT International Board of Trustees Jaap Doek ECPAT International Njundu Drammeh CPA Gambia Yared Degefu FSCE (Ethiopia) Norbert Fanou-Ako CLOSE (Benin) Flavia Frei ECPAT Switzerland Zemzem Geda FSCE (Ethiopia) Lorina Ghitu CCF Moldova Susanna Greijer ECPAT Luxembourg Milena Grillo Fundación PANIAMOR (Costa Rica) Fabienne Grojean ECPAT Luxembourg Eliette Guyot ECPAT France Hoda Hamwieh Kara Dar Al Amal (House of Hope) (Lebanon) Lucinda Hardwick ECPAT UK Katherine Hargitt ECPAT International Boubacar Hassane ECPAT Luxembourg Sabrina Heuzey ECPAT France Henri Hiard ECPAT Luxembourg Jeremy Hobbs ECPAT International Elvira Ilibezova Network of NGOS against CSEC in Kyrgyzstan Amie Jobe EICYAC Theresa Katempa Kabeka CHIN (Zambia) Datuk Dr. Raj Abdul Karim Moderator

36 34 First Name Last Name Organisation Thomas Kauffmann ECPAT Luxembourg Olga Kolpakova Russian Alliance against CSEC Sokoeun Kong ECPAT Cambodia Ossei Kouakou SOS Violences Sexuelles (Cote d'ivoire) Gabriela Kühn Polish Coalition Against CSEC (Nobody's Children Foundation) Achyut Kumar Maiti Nepal Anne le Boursicot ECPAT France Li-Feng Lee ECPAT Taiwan Thibaut Lejeune ECPAT France Marie-Laure Lemineur ECPAT International Pi-Ying Liao ECPAT Taiwan Deepa Limbu Subba ECPAT Luxembourg (Nepal) Juana María López Calero FAPMI-ECPAT Spain Brigitte Louchez ECPAT Brasil Yerbol Lukpanov National Network of NGOs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Ulzhan Lukpanova National Network of NGOs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Darlene Lynch ECPAT International Ryan Mahan ECPAT UK Mohammed Mahuruf ECPAT Sri Lanka-PEaCE Cleophas Mally WAO-Afrique (Togo) Mariam Maskhulia The Public Health Foundation of Georgia David Matas ECPAT International Board of Trustees Mechtild Maurer ECPAT Germany Eugenia Maxim EICYAC Catherine Mbengue ECPAT International Bernadette McMenamin ECPAT International Board of Trustees Luis Méndez Jiménez MAIS (Dominican Republic) Zingui Messomo ECPAT International Board of Trustees Nora Mnatsakanyan Hope & Help (Armenia) Erwin Mom ECPAT International Ibaranté Momo Association Burkinabé pour la Survie de l'enfance (Burkina Faso) Olivier Mondot ECPAT France Antje Monshausen ECPAT Germany Cath Moss Ecumenical Network for Youth Action (Czech Republic) Valentyna Mudrik ECPAT International Board of Trustees Dr. Tufail Muhammad Pakistan Pediatric Association Justa Mwaituka KIWOHEDE (Tanzania) Cristina Navarro ECPAT in Nicaragua (Casa Alianza) Norma Negrete ECPAT Mexico

37 First Name Last Name Organisation Oscar Netzler Samoa Victim Support Group Darlene Newton Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada Fidèle Jeannette Ngono Nke Zoula ASSEJA (Cameroon) Theo Noten ECPAT Netherlands Olabisi Olatero-Olagbegi Women s Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON) Anko Ordoñez ECPAT France Daniela Orth ECPAT Germany David Ould ECPAT International Board of Trustees Diego Pailos Gurises Unidos (Uruguay) Bharti Patel ECPAT UK Caroline Anna Maria Persson ECPAT Sweden Anders Pettersson ECPAT Sweden Margarita Priakhina Children Not for Abuse (Belarus) Mónica Puello ECPAT in Peru (Tejiendo Sonrisas) Ophélie Rigault ECPAT France Ana Lídia Rodrigues Lima ECPAT Brasil Malle Roomeldi Tartu Child Support Centre (Estonia) Purna Roychowdhury SANLAAP (India) Dorothy Rozga ECPAT International Maia Rusakova ECPAT International Board of Trustees Emily Ruskin ECPAT International Ana María Sainero FAPMI-ECPAT Spain ECPAT Spain Peggy Samba WAO-Afrique (Togo) Karim Sankara ECPAT France Lia Saralidze The Public Health Foundation of Georgia Salima Sarwar ACD - Association for Community Development (Bangladesh) Misato Sasaki ECPAT-STOP Japan Marco Scarpati ECPAT Italy Nora Schulman CASACIDN (Argentina) Tatiana Semikop All Ukrainian Network against CSEC ( Faith, Hope, Love ) Tiana Sento-Sé ECPAT Brasil Chloe Setter ECPAT UK Neeva Shrestha Pradhan ECPAT Luxembourg (Nepal) Olha Shved ECPAT International Indrani Sinha SANLAAP (India) Carol Smolenski ECPAT-USA Ahmad Sofian ECPAT International Board of Trustees Jean-Cyril Spinetta Special Guest Karyn Stone ECPAT International Sharmin Subrina ACD - Association for Community Development (Bangladesh) Alice Tallon ECPAT France 35

38 36 First Name Last Name Organisation Nicole Tanghe ECPAT France Ulisses Moreno Temporário Rede da Criança (Mozambique) Sandy Thompson ECPAT Child ALERT (New Zealand) Hoang Thuy Lan CEFACOM (Vietnam) Sumnima Tuladhar CWIN-Nepal- ECPAT International Board of Trustees Junita Upadhyay ECPAT International Emilie Vallat ECPAT France Danielle Van Kerckhoven ECPAT Belgium Dorine van der Keur ECPAT International Sheila Varadan ECPAT International Celine Verheijen ECPAT Netherlands Maria Eugenia Villarreal ECPAT Guatemala Guillemette Vuillard ECPAT France Benjamin Waburoko ECPAT Uganda-UCRNN Astrid Winkler ECPAT Austria Mariana Yevsyukova ECPAT International Lydia Zagorova Neglected Children's Society (Bulgaria) Lesly Zambrano Moreno ECPAT International Board of Trustees Daniela Mariana Zulcovsky CASACIDN (Argentina)

39 APPENDICES

40 38 Appendix 1 TRANSCRIPT OF SPEECH BY UNSR MAUD DE BOER-BUQUICCHIO ECPAT International Assembly Opening Plenary Speech UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children Paris, 2 December 2014 Dear Carol, Dear Dorothy, Dear friends, Dear friends of children, Just two weeks ago we blew out the candles with which we decorated the CRC for its 25 years of existence. It was a day of celebration and brought us back to the spirit in which it was created and the expectations it had raised. We rejoiced about the great number of ratifications and the progress that had been made since then. In the specific area which we are both concerned with, that of sexual exploitation of children, we had witnessed significant milestones: the adoption of the OPSC (and of OPIC), three World Congresses and national action plans that followed, and yet, the unanimous conclusion in all respects was that there was still a long way to go on the path towards implementation and making a world fit for children. I ended my address at the GA in New York with an appeal to the audience, an appeal to go beyond the wishes, and reflect on what each one of us can do, individually. So here we are back to business, but not back to business as usual, but back to unfinished business, as reflected on the front page of your Draft Strategic Framework for and beyond. We are gathered here today to reflect together on what we can do to end the scourge of sexual exploitation of children, in all its forms. I say we on purpose, because in my mind there is no doubt that partnership between ECPAT and the other international players, in particular those 1

41 39 belonging to the UN family, is crucial. I am therefore grateful to Carol and Dorothy to have associated me with today s event, which is also the reflection of a longstanding cooperation between ECPAT and the Mandate. Indeed closing the implementation gap, ensuring accountability of perpetrators and redress of victims should be the focus of the continued partnership between ECPAT and the mandate as we approach the 20th anniversary of the Stockholm Congress and the finalisation of negotiations for the adoption of the sustainable development goals. Implementation first of all requires us to truly understand the nature, extent and root causes of the problem. Not only are we confronted with gaps in the knowledge of current patterns but we are also lagging behind in understanding shifts in the patterns of violations as a result of technological, economic and social changes. It is vital that the evidencebase for policy-making keeps pace. This requires us to invest in targeted research on both the push and pull factors that drive violations, as well as collaborating to ensure the dissemination and impact of existing resources. There is no doubt that ECPAT s current research and advocacy projects, reinforce and complement the work of the mandate. I can only welcome the project on the establishment of a solid research coalition and policy forum and annual global monitoring report on child sexual exploitation, ideas that will be discussed in the coming days as part of the reflections on how to capitalise on the 20 th anniversary of the Stockholm Congress. Reflecting on a vision and strategy was also the first task I assigned myself soon after (and before) I was appointed SRSC. Even if my mandate is larger than ECPAT s and covers issues beyond sexual exploitation, it is clearly its primary focus. As the fifth Mandate holder I obviously intend to ensure the continuity of the work of my predecessors, maintaining and building on their activities and accomplishments, in particular my immediate predecessor Najat Maalla M jid, who continues to be actively involved in many of your projects. 2

42 40 I will continue to take a consultative and participatory approach in the implementation of my mandate and intend to act as a facilitator of action-oriented dialogue between key stakeholders at the local and international levels. I am committed to adopting a child-centred approach. I do not see children exclusively as passive recipients, victims or dependants, but as rights-holders who are entitled to be heard and to have their views taken seriously. Participatory mechanisms will enable me to reach out to children and those working and living with them, and to take their opinions and suggestions into account in a meaningful and effective way. Developing child-friendly and accessible tools to ensure a direct communication with children and youth will be part of this endeavour. I will take into account the different needs and opportunities of boys and girls through, among others, the collection and analysis of disaggregated data and the proposal of gender-specific recommendations for their empowerment, protection, care and recovery. In this respect, I remain open to learning from the experience accrued by ECPAT to achieve a meaningful and gendersensitive participation of children and integration of their voice into policies and programmes. Let me also welcome ECPAT s suggestion for a global, youth-led organisation/advisory group as part of efforts to mark the 20 th anniversary of the Stockholm Congress. Allow me now to share with you my thematic priorities for the coming years topics that need further research and responses which I intend to develop in Reports for the HRC and the GA: My first thematic Report, which I will present to the HRC in March, will address the issue of information and communication technologies and sexual exploitation of children. My aim is to reflect on new trends, challenges, threats and responses to the 3

43 phenomenon, including various types of child abuse and exploitation facilitated by ICTs, available legal instruments and good practices that assist in preventing and combating the phenomenon, and the role that the business sector and NGOs can play therein. 41 This theme encompasses a variety of different harms and violation of children s basic human rights, each of which can be committed through or facilitated by ICTs. If we all struggle already with a lack of reliable and segregated data regarding the criminal activities of child sexual exploitation in general, this is particularly true for abuse and exploitation facilitated by ICTs. The movement of child sexual exploitation from the streets to the Internet, and the role of new technology tools (like anonymizing technology and digital currencies which have produced the so-called deep web or dark net, enabling exploiters to operate with virtual anonymity and impunity), have created a huge challenge, both in terms of assessing the scope of the problem and the number of victims, and of identifying and prosecuting the criminals behind it. Perhaps the biggest harm in terms of incidences is that of child pornography. Grooming and online streaming of sexual abuse complete the grim list of criminal activities, which are included in this pervasive phenomenon. In response, we need a comprehensive strategy that includes prevention of these heinous crimes, protection and participation through empowerment of children, effective law enforcement actions and prosecution of offenders, access to justice and remedy for child victims, as well as greater regional and international cooperation. Let me come to each of these essential elements of a comprehensive child protection system. We need countries around the world to adopt legislation that 4

44 42 criminalizes child pornography on the Internet, allowing for the prosecution of the offenders and ensuring a deterrent effect. Criminalisation of all actors in the process of making a child victim of pornography is essential: from the demander, to the producer, to the possessor and the distributor. In this connection, I highly commend the brief submitted by ECPAT to the Committee on the Rights of the Child to address the gaps in the criminalisation of child sexual exploitation online under the OPSC. We also need international cooperation, both at policy and law enforcement levels, because almost by definition online pornography has a transnational element. Law enforcement starts with identification of the victim. The development by Interpol of one single image database is an illustration of how important this cooperation is. Governments need to cooperate. The OPSC invites them to do so, but in practise this cooperation raises issues which would need further clarification and I intend to contribute to that. Global alliances and coalitions are equally essential with and within civil society. I truly believe that ECPAT can play a major role in building these as an overarching facilitator. Obviously, the law can only be a partial solution, and prevention and protection programs need to be developed. Prevention starts in our homes and our families, and continues through society as a whole. It means helping our children making the best use of the extraordinary tool that is the Internet, while showing zero tolerance for child sex offenders. We need to explore new avenues and further develop the active involvement and participation of children as advocates of child protection, and the adoption and promotion of basic digital literacy tools for children. Children can act as a great watchdog of abuses against 5

45 their own peer group. 1 But we should use the language of children and let the digital media do the talking. For that we need strong partnerships with major technology services providers of popular digital media services. 43 Digital empowerment of adults is equally crucial. Parents, school authorities, policymakers and other local community resources close to children should be given basic digital literacy to support children to use digital media safely by equipping them with resources that they could reach out for protection 2 Another important means of empowering children in stopping their sexual exploitation online is crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing techniques can be a safe and anonymous way for children to share information and seek help if required and become empowered to act as online activists. Crowdsourcing has no geographical boundaries, and can act as a transnational information network. The potential for children to contribute to crowdsourcing is huge and underexploited. The challenge in our digital era is to make the best use of the digital world, while putting in place the necessary means to assist children in protecting themselves and give them an active role in stopping and combating sexual violence online. ICTs offer us an array of tools to do so. In my second thematic report I intend to address the consequences and impact of sale and sexual exploitation on child victims and the development of adequate comprehensive care to facilitate their recovery and reintegration. In addition to the need for 1 As part of the Fighting against child exploitation initiative in the UK, young people who were aware of the dangers of grooming and sexual exploitation and were willing to help others came together to create a website that uses fun quizzes, games and stories to convey information ( The Safer Internet centres initiative, part of a European Commission programme, works in partnership with panels of young people (children aged from 14 to 17 years) on campaigns, awareness-raising materials and Internet safety. 2In Australia, Youth Advisory Group on Cybersafety, established under the country s cybersafety plan, provides the Government with the perspective of young people on cybersafety issues. 6

46 44 providing adequate aftercare for victims in terms of immediate medical and emotional support, the long-term effect of these human rights abuses must also be addressed through a process of justice where the perpetrators are held accountable. Child friendly justice from the very beginning enabling the child victim to speak out without unnecessary additional trauma is crucial here. I would welcome partnering with ECPAT on strategies for developing concrete opportunities for access to justice and remedies. I am aware of your work in this area and welcome for example the idea of a victim s Bill of Rights, as well as a Global Victim s Fund that could provide on the ground support for individual victims, support recovery and develop States responsibility to ensure that appropriate care and protection exists. The demand factor underpinning the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography is another topic that I d like to research, in order to propose comprehensive preventive strategies. The sale of children for the purposes of illegal adoption is also an issue that I d like to tackle during my tenure. And more to come At the same time I intend to continue to follow up on other thematic concerns addressed by my predecessors, such as the issue of sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, including in the context of major sports events. In this regard I am looking forward to the outcome of ECPAT s research work under the guidance of an eminent task team. Following on the work of my predecessors, the explicit criminalisation of sexual exploitation of children and non-criminalisation of child victims, and the universal ratification of the OPSC will continue to be my advocacy priorities. I welcome ECPAT s advocacy efforts in this respect as well as your call for a more systemic integration of sexual exploitation 7

47 in the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, as well as the proposal to seek clarification from the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the conceptual difference between sale and trafficking of children. 45 One important tool which I intend to maximize is the conduct of country visits. On the basis of a list of objective criteria (which include reports by NGOs) I have identified a number of priority countries 3, and I will be very pleased to meet with relevant country or regional representatives of ECPAT to familiarise myself in advance with current issues which I could take up with relevant national and local authorities. I remain open to receive suggestions for other country visits. As I said in my Report to the GA, I intend to optimise the opportunity offered by these visits by making pragmatic recommendations. I also count on the collaboration of NGOs and the business sector for the effective implementation of the recommendations. For this purpose, I remain open to all stakeholders, including ECPAT, to exchange information in preparation of country visits, contributions to thematic reports and organization of advocacy activities. ECPAT s work regarding sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (global study), project on access to justice and remedies for child victims, the semantics study, and advocacy efforts for the criminalisation of child sexual exploitation online under the OPSC will be of great relevance to my Mandate. Let us continue to join hands in our efforts to integrate child sexual exploitation into the post-2015 agenda and sustainable development goals, targets, and more importantly, indicators, which are key for implementation and accountability. 3 Requests have been sent to Armenia, Georgia, Bulgaria, Georgia, India, Japan and Mozambique. Africa: Gambia, Senegal, Ghana / Zambia (both signed but not ratified OPSC) Asia: India, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines Latin America: Dominican Republic, Brazil Others: Turkey, UAE 8

48 46 Let me conclude: In 2015, we shall celebrate the 25 th anniversary of the Mandate, the 15 th of OPSC, and the 15 th of African Charter of Welfare and Rights of the Child, and, in 2016, the 20 th anniversary of first World Congress to stop commercial sexual exploitation of children. In my view the best way to celebrate would be to show that we have managed to reverse the trend. I am confident that by joining our efforts we can come closer to reaching our common goal to ensure effective implementation and accountability for the crimes of sexual exploitation of children. Let s get back to work, to finish our unfinished business. Thank you for your attention. Version 2/12 9

49 Appendix 2 TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO MESSAGE FROM SRSG MARTA SANTOS PAIS 47 ECPAT General Assembly Video Message Distinguished guests, dear friends, Warm greetings from the United Nations headquarters in NY! Even from the distance, I can feel the powerful bonds connecting the members of the ECPAT movement gathering in Paris today. This is a movement in constant expansion, inspired by children s rights values and driven by a clear agenda aiming at children s protection from violence. I feel very close to ECPAT s mission and I would have loved to be in Paris with you today. As this was not possible, I am honoured to join you through this video message. A few days ago, the world celebrated the 25 th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Convention marked a paradigm shift in the way children are envisaged in society: not as passive beneficiaries of services or notyet persons, but as true subjects of rights and agents of change. The Convention mobilized nations in all regions behind a common endeavor: the realization of the human rights of all children, everywhere and at all times.

50 48 The world has changed immensely since 1989, but the vision of the Convention remains as relevant today as it was at the time of its adoption. Safeguarding and applying the principles and values of the Convention to the reality of the 21 Century is a challenge that concerns us all. And our success will depend on the ability to raise the human dignity of the child above any political, cultural or legal differences persisting in our societies. We can do so by being pragmatic and focused!! As you discuss ECPAT s crucial mission for the years to come, I warmly welcome your determination to further increase the impact of your work. The ideas that I would like to emphasize are all about developing CONNECTIONS. FIRST, I would like to congratulate you on your decision to CONNECT to children s voices. This is particularly important to be successful in the design of prevention policies, in the development of child sensitive counselling, complaint and reporting mechanisms, and in the promotion of long lasting and effective rehabilitation and reintegration strategies for child victims. SECOND, I fully support your commitment to focus on the consolidation of data and research. They are the bedrock of any efforts designed to increase the effectiveness and relevance of strategic actions and monitoring initiatives. But, guided by the conceptual clarity promoted by your important semantics project, data and research are also indispensable to influence sound policies and legislation and to make a real difference in children s lives. THIRD, I believe it is extremely important to further CONNECT to the global agenda on the realization of children s rights and very especially to children s freedom from violence. As ECPAT s work and the World Congress

51 49 have demonstrated, children s sexual abuse and exploitation does not occur in a vacuum; and incidents of violence, abuse and exploitation are often a continuum which children endure, especially when they belong to the particularly marginalized groups. Making more explicit the connections between sexual exploitation, other forms of violence (including sexual violence) and other child rights violations will no doubt help to strengthen the impact of your actions and rally new actors to your cause. FOURTH, your investment in awareness raising, social mobilization and capacity building will allow all stakeholders to CONNECT with the reality of child victims of sexual abuse and exploitation and with the measures that each one of us can take to prevent and address this phenomenon. Last but not least, I warmly welcome your emphasis on CONNECTING the global, regional and national agendas. A visionary framework with clear objectives, strong partnerships and firm resources will help to promote, sustain and monitor progress in international, regional and national developments. Stressing States accountability while promoting non-state actors responsibilities in the prevention and elimination of all forms of violence, including sexual violence, remains of the utmost importance. This has also been the key goal of the regional processes promoted by my mandate to advance the implementation of the recommendations of the UN Study on Violence against Children ECPAT has been a key ally and, with our strong partnership, we have a unique opportunity to accelerate progress across nations. Dear Friends, I remain strongly committed to joining forces with the ECPAT movement to achieve our common goals and mark out the route towards 2016, the year in which we shall celebrate 20 years of the Stockholm Congress and 10 years of the UN Study on Violence against Children; and also the year when the

52 50 international community will launch the process of implementation of the new global development agenda. In the times ahead, we have a golden opportunity to place children s protection from violence, including sexual violence, at the heart of the policy debate and to ensure that it is recognized as a cross cutting priority concern in the sustainable development agenda. Together, we can near the universal ratification and promote the effective implementation of the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography; we can mobilize support for the enactment and enforcement of legislation to ban all forms of violence against children, including sexual abuse and exploitation; we can help develop in all countries child friendly counselling, reporting and complaint mechanisms to prevent incidents of violence, safeguard the rights of child victims and fight impunity; and we can vigorously address emerging concerns, including those associated with the use of new information and communication technologies. In my recent report on this topic, in which ECPAT participated, I put forward a number of suggestions that will no doubt resonate in your plans to focus on children s on-line sexual exploitation. Dear friends, in 1989, with the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the international community made a promise to the world s children. Through its vital work, ECPAT is contributing to keep this promise alive. I wish to congratulate you on your achievements and your resolve to become a bigger and stronger movement that puts the child s human dignity at the heart of its mission. I look forward to continuing to collaborate closely with you all! Thank you for your attention.

53 Appendix 3 BOARD OF TRUSTEES CHAIR REPORT Report to 6 th ECPAT International Assembly Carol Bellamy Chair of the ECPAT International Board of Trustees 13 October Board Meetings During the period covered in this report the Board met on five occasions. A meeting of the new Board was held on 11 November 2011 after the 5th International Assembly in Paris, France. The Board subsequently met in March 2012; in March and November 2013; and in March Meetings were held in Bangkok, Thailand with the exception of the March 2014 meeting which was held in Paris due to political unrest in Thailand. 2. Board Members From November 2011 (post-assembly) to October 2014, the Board was composed of: Chair: Maureen Crombie (until April 2013) Treasurer: David Ould Secretary: Alan Bell (until March 2014) Youth representative: Valentyna Mudrik Regional representatives: Africa: Zingui Messomo Central & Eastern Europe: Mariana Yevsyukova (until December 2014) Latin America: Fabio González Florez (until December 2014) East Asia: Ahmad Sofian North America: David Matas Pacific: Bernadette McMenamin South Asia: Sumnima Tuladhar Western Europe: Katlijn Declercq After the resignation by Maureen Crombie in April 2013, Katlijn Declercq stepped in as acting Chair. In November 2013, Carol Bellamy was appointed to the position of Chair and officially assumed the role in December 2013.

54 52 Due to a vacancy arising, an election for the post of Regional Representative for Latin America was held in December 2013 to temporarily fill the position in the period leading up to the 6th International Assembly. The Board carried out a consultation and voting process with the Latin America network members, which closed on 6 December. As a result, Lesly Zambrano was elected as the new Representative to the Board and formally took up her duties on the Board on 1 January In March 2014, a voting and election process was carried out with members from the region Eastern and Central Europe due to a vacancy arising. As a result, Maia Rusakova was elected to the ECPAT International Board as Regional Representative for Eastern and Central Europe. In October 2013, it was announced that Mr. Jean-Cyril Spinetta was appointed as an ECPAT Honorary Ambassador. 3. Board Committees The following Committees continued their work during the last period: - The Credentials Committee (CC) reviews applications for new members, changes in status and cancellation of membership. It reviews applications twice a year. It is composed entirely of Regional Representatives. - The Legal Advisory Committee is composed of David Matas, Valentyna Mudrik, Ahmad Sofian and Lesly Zambrano. - The Finance and Audit Committee is composed of David Ould, Sumnima Tuladhar, Maia Rusakova and Zingui Messomo. 4. Development of Policies and Guidelines In June 2014, a vote on four proposals from the Board for constitutional amendments to the ECPAT Constitution were put to the network by electronic vote. The motions of the Board were approved by a large majority and subsequently adopted by the International Assembly. The motions are as follows: - The position of Board Secretary was replaced with Vice-Chair (86 in favour, 2 not in favour); - An additional regional representative to the Board was introduced for the Africa region (87 in favour, 1 not in favour); - The office period for the Board was amended until the moment of the next Assembly (86 in favour, 2 blank); and - The requirements for the Assembly Moderator was modified (84 in favour, 4 not in favour). The above changes were incorporated in an amended version of the ECPAT Constitution, published August 2014

55 5. ECPAT Membership 53 During the period from 2011 to 2014, several membership applications were reviewed by the Board. As a result two new groups became affiliate members of the ECPAT Network: - Samoa Victim Support Group; and - Hope & Help (Armenia). In addition, one group saw their membership upgraded from affiliate to national groups: - CPA Gambia. Three groups saw their membership withdrawn: - Beo Support (Serbia); - National Children s Council (Mauritius); and - Indian Committee of Youth Organisations (India). Other applications for membership and upgrade are currently under consideration. 6. Representation of ECPAT International at key meetings and events During the period covered by this report, the Chair, Regional Representatives and the Youth Representative to the Board all attended various international conferences, working groups and other events in their role as representatives of ECPAT International. Representation included presentations and attendance at various regional mechanism, donor visits, ECPAT Regional Consultations, and regional and international advocacy platforms. In October 2013, the Acting Chair represented the Board during the award ceremony of the Hilton Humanitarian Prize Closing Comments The period has seen many new and exciting developments for ECPAT. The honour of receiving the 2013 Hilton Humanitarian Prize was one of many highlights from this period. Regional Consultations have helped shape the way forward for the ECPAT Network and relationships have been formed with new strategic partners. As we move forward, we will continue to expand and enhance our work to make our world safer for children. It has been my pleasure to serve as Chair for the past year and I look forward to seeing many of you at the 6th International Assembly, 2-3 December in Paris, France.

56 54 Appendix 4 BOARD OF TRUSTEES TREASURER REPORT ECPAT International Income and Expenditure Treasurer s Report 6 th ECPAT International Assembly 2-3 December 2014 Paris, France 000 $ 2011/ / /14 Rest. Funds 2,470 2,022 3,107 URest. Funds 203 1, Total Income 2,673 3,677 3,359 Expenditure 2,617 1,677 2,487 ECPAT International Staff and Salaries 2011/ / /14 Staff Nos (at Year end) Salary costs 1,049 1,057 1,388 ($ 000) ECPAT International Reserves 000 $ 2011/ / /14 Rest. Funds 645 1,002 2,048 URest. Funds 223 1,869 1,693 Total Funds 868 2,871 3,741 Interns (estimated value) ECPAT International Budget 000 $ Expenditure 4,381 Funding: Project Funds 1,685 Core Funds 1,150 Unrestricted 1,046 Code 500

57 Appendix 55 5 BOARD OF TRUSTEES REGIONAL AND YOUTH REPORTS Board Report: WESTERN EUROPE Regional Representative: Ms. Katlijn Declercq Board Reports 6 th ECPAT International Assembly 2-3 December 2014 Paris, France Board Report: WESTERN EUROPE Membership Overview There are 11 ECPAT Members in the region. ECPAT Austria ECPAT Belgium ECPAT France ECPAT Germany ECPAT Italy ECPAT Luxembourg ECPAT Netherlands ECPAT Sweden ECPAT Switzerland ECPAT UK FAPMI/ ECPAT Spain Board Report: WESTERN EUROPE News and Highlights One European region and enhanced collaboration with our partners of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Common regional projects on major topics: Make It Safe, Don t look away!, Mario, CST project, mega sport events, PATH, RACE... Advocacy to regional instruments with results: UN, CoE, OSCE, EU all resulted in a better legislative framework Working together to strengthen the international Network: projects in Africa, Latin America, Asia A strong Network with dedicated member groups Board Report: EASTERN & CENTRAL EUROPE Regional Representative: Ms. Maia Rusakova Board Report: EASTERN & CENTRAL EUROPE Membership Overview There are 16 ECPAT member organisations in the region. ACTSEC (Albania) Children-Not for Abuse (Belarus) Neglected Children Society (Bulgaria) ENYA (Czech Republic) Tartu Child Support Center (Estonia) National Network of NGOs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Network of NGOs Fighting Against CSEC in Kyrgyzstan Network of National Organisations Fighting against Child Prostitution and Trafficking (Moldova) Polish Coalition against CSEC - Nobody s Children Foundation Save the Children Romania Russian Alliance against CSEC All-Ukrainian Network against CSEC Turkish Network against CSEC Hope and Help (Armenia) Azerbaijan Children Union The Public Health Foundation of Georgia

58 56 Board Report: EASTERN & CENTRAL EUROPE News and Highlights ECPAT is expanding in the region: New members have joined the Network from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia and an organisation in Uzbekistan is being recruited now. Cooperation between ECPAT groups from the region and ECPAT groups from other regions, including Western Europe has been further strengthened. Main issues covered by projects implemented in the region are combating child trafficking for sexual purposes, sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, child prostitution, development of Internet safety skills, strengthening protection and support of vulnerable groups of children including Roma and street children. Initiatives to involve vulnerable children and young people into combating commercial sexual exploitation of children in the region are being developed. Main challenges: lack of skills in the field of researching, awareness raising, prevention, child and youth participation, providing assistance to victims and fundraising. Board Report: AFRICA Regional Representative: Mr. Xavier Zingui Messomo Board Report: AFRICA Membership Overview There are 9 ECPAT Members in Central & Western Africa. CPA (The Gambia) SOS Violences Sexuelles ABSE (Burkina Faso) (Cote D'Ivoire) ASSEJA (Cameroon) WAO-Afrique (Togo) CLOSE (Benin) WOCON (Nigeria) GNCRC (Ghana) ANTD (Niger) There are 6 ECPAT Members in Southern & Eastern Africa. CHIN (Zambia) ECPAT Ethiopia/ FSCE Child Welfare South Africa (CWSA) ECPAT Uganda KIWOHEDE (Tanzania) Rede da Criança (Mozambique) Board Report: AFRICA News and Highlights Regional consultations (Addis Ababa, 2013 & 2014 and Ouagadougou, 2014) ECPAT Regional office introduced in Addis Ababa Collaboration and partnerships (AU, ACPF, ACERWC) Network development (Two sub-regions, two Board representatives, new affiliation and upgrades) Participation in Board activities (all Board meetings, sensitization of members, etc.) Board Report: EAST ASIA Regional Representative: Mr. Ahmad Sofian Board Report: EAST ASIA Membership Overview There are ECPAT Members in 10 countries in the region. Affiliate Group for ECPAT International in Mongolia ECPAT Cambodia ECPAT Foundation Thailand ECPAT Indonesia ECPAT / Kansai Japan ECPAT Philippines ECPAT/ STOP Japan ECPAT Taiwan CEFACOM (Vietnam) Tacteen Naeil (South Korea) Board Report: EAST ASIA News and Highlights Organised conference on sexual online abuse in Southeast Asia countries, 2012 Participated in ACWC meeting on Sexual Abuse, 2012 Organised a regional conference on legal protection for victims of CSEC in Southeast Asia countries, 2013 Prepared legal document on child sex tourism in Southeast Asian countries, 2013 (published 2014) In cooperation with ECPAT Taiwan, hosted Regional Consultation on Action to Stop the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in East and Southeast Asia, 2014 Board Report: SOUTH ASIA Regional Representative: Ms. Sumnima Tuladhar

59 Board Report: SOUTH ASIA Membership Overview There are 11 ECPAT member organisations in 6 countries in the region. ACD (BANGLADESH) Ain O Salish Kendra (Bangladesh) Aparajeyo Bangladesh CWIN (NEPAL) ECPAT Sri Lanka/ PEACE EQUATIONS (India) Maiti Nepal Pakistan Pediatric Association SANLAAP (India) STOP India RENEW (Bhutan) Board Report: SOUTH ASIA News and Highlights Regional Consultation on Action to Stop the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in South Asia, 8-10 September 2014, Kathmandu, Nepal Experimentation of Nepal National Coordinator South Asia Regional Overview on CSEC Preparatory Study for Situational Analysis Of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Nepal Need for documenting successful interventions by affiliate members in South Asia 57 Board Report: NORTH AMERICA Regional Representative: Mr. David Matas Board Report: NORTH AMERICA Membership Overview There are two ECPAT Members in the region. Beyond Borders ECPAT CANADA ECPAT-USA Board Report: NORTH AMERICA News and Highlights Legal interventions (Supreme Court of Canada, US Supreme court) Beyond Border ECPAT Canada Media Awards (2012, 2013, 2014) Educational Symposiums (Examples: The pornification of children, Anti-Trafficking Activist Toolkit to educate young people, etc.) Code of Conduct Signatories in the USA Awareness & Advocacy (For example: It happens here PSA, And Boys Too ; Man to Man Campaign) Board Report: LATIN AMERICA Regional Representative: Ms. Lesly Zambrano Moreno Board Report: LATIN AMERICA Membership Overview There are ECPAT members in 12 countries in the region. Peruvian Network Against CSEC ECPAT in Nicaragua Asociación Civil Gurises Unidos (Uruguay) CASACIDN (Argentina) ECPAT Brazil ECPAT Colombia ECPAT Guatemala ECPAT Mexico Fundación PANIAMOR (Costa Rica) Luna Nueva (Paraguay) MAIS (Dominican Republic) ONG Paicabi and ONG Raices (Chile) Board Report: LATIN AMERICA News and Highlights The network was strengthened by having a Regional Coordinator as well as the regional Board Representative working together with clearly defined roles, and by implementing new strategies to sustain communication among the groups. The Network groups in the regions are developing different initiatives such as research, prevention, and awareness about smuggling, forced marriage, and CSEC in tourism and on the Internet. Groups are working across different cities in their own countries and with other countries in the region. We played a key role in addressing the topic of CSEC in the Pan-American Child and Adolescent Congress an important advocacy platform organised by the OAS with the support of the Network groups. A regional advocacy plan should be developed for 2015 to maintain the momentum of the cause. We identified the best spaces and events for lobbying in the region and began to establish a presence in some of them. A plan is required to continue and expand the presence of ECPAT in these spaces, and to present common key messages in the region among the entire Network.

60 58 Board Report: PACIFIC Regional Representative: Ms. Bernadette McMenamin Report presented by Mr. Steve Betinsky Board Report: PACIFIC Membership Overview There are three ECPAT Members in the region. Child ALERT (New Zealand) Child Wise (Australia) Samoa Victim Support Group Board Report: PACIFIC News and Highlights APAC Financial Coalition Against Child Pornography (Australia and New Zealand are members) New Zealand: Action against slavery, strengthened collaboration across membership group and a child focus is present. Creating awareness around the broader issues around CSA and CSEC Samoa: awareness and advocacy to bring to bare a legal framework for intercountry adoptions National conferences on human trafficking in New Zealand Australia: Presented case at international policing forum on online child abuse material New Zealand: research into public perceptions into CSEC; NGO collaboration into human trafficking in NZ Australia: Established research collaboration with University of Tasmania for commission research into online child sexual abuse material Australia: Established sector-based coalition to prevent CSEC in out of home care sector Board Report: YOUTH Youth Representative to the Board: Ms. Valentyna Mudrik Board Report: YOUTH Overview of Child and Youth Participation within the Network Youth-led Initiatives Advocacy Informational and media activities Regional meetings EICYAC consultations to the Board CYP Strategy Victims Voices EICYAC challenges Survey on CYP Board Report: YOUTH News and Highlights

61 Appendix 6 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REPORT 59 Report to 6th ECPAT International Assembly Dorothy Rozga Executive Director, ECPAT International 2 December 2014, Paris I am honoured to be speaking at my first International Assembly as your Executive Director particularly at such a positive and exciting time for ECPAT. There really is so much to celebrate: more members, more partners, more collaboration across our network, and an ever greater determination to fulfill our mission. And fulfill it we must, because now more than ever the world s most vulnerable children need, indeed they must have, a global network of civil-society organizations that is in their corner, fighting for them, working for them, giving them a voice and accepting no half measures, no compromises, when it comes to their protection. Friends, in the three years since this Assembly was last convened, ECPAT International has weathered some difficult moments, particularly since the departure of Kathleen Speakes as our previous Executive Director. And I must pay tribute to Kathleen for everything she did for ECPAT, and to both Alan Bell and to Wyndham James, who stepped in to fill the breach with such commitment. I m so honoured to follow in the footsteps of these dedicated leaders. We also saw the resignation of Maureen Crombie as our Chair, who gave her heart and soul to this organization and we gained another Chair. I am so pleased that Carol Bellamy accepted our invitation to chair our board, bringing her decades of experience to our network. We all have cause to thanks to Katlijn Declercq for keeping the Board, indeed, ECPAT as a whole, on track during this transition period. And in my case, I own immense gratitude to Katlijn for her patience, guidance and leadership during that period. We also need to thank the Secretariat Staff for their constant support. I think that we have now arrived on firm ground, and that ECPAT is emerging stronger than ever. Now, I am sure there was some apprehension about the appointment of a Director coming from UNICEF to lead the global civil society network on the commercial sexual exploitation of children. But over the past nineteen months, you have welcomed me, taught me, nurtured me, and at times, judiciously nudged me. And I cannot thank you enough.

62 60 And what hectic months they have been: my travels have taken me to twenty-four countries - so far - to meet as many of you as possible to be honest, there are times when I m asked where I live, and I reply in a hotel! But it has been a privilege to meet so many of you, and it is vital that I do meet you, and that I listen to you. I believe in the principle of servant as leader, and want to stress that the ECPAT Secretariat exists only to serve you to respond not only to your needs but also to your ideas. When putting together my report to this Assembly, I came across example after example of ground- breaking innovation, of strong collaboration, of new partnerships, and passionate advocacy. It s impossible to talk about them all this morning. Indeed, my speech is the victim of your many successes over the past three years! So, accept my apologies in advance there are successes that I can t include here. Fortunately, we have two precious days together please don t miss this chance to share your experiences. And there are dozens of examples on the ECPAT Hub which relies on the oxygen of your stories, your experience, to inspire and mobilize others across the entire network. All I can do is illustrate how far we have come over the past three years and set out our direction of travel, captured in our new Strategic Framework for 2015 to 2018, which is on our agenda tomorrow. If I have one message, it is that we need to move the debate from the problem to the solution. I don t need to tell you about the grim reality, the scale and the pace of the sexual exploitation of children you see that every day. We need to focus on action that will have real results, real impact for children, at every level from global to local. I also want us to dare to dream to pursue a vision of a world where the commercial sexual exploitation of children is not only seen as an abhorrent crime with severe penalties, but as a crime that used to be commonplace, and that used to go unchecked. My use of the past tense is deliberate our goal is to consign this abuse to history. What would a world without the commercial sexual exploitation look like? It would, of course, be a world where perpetrators are stopped and if necessary locked away, and victims are lovingly cared for and rehabilitated from physical and mental trauma they have suffered. But our vision goes further, to a world where the foundations are in place to prevent this horrific violation of human rights. It is a world where abusers are stopped, where there is no way and no place for them to hide where every country no exceptions has laws in place, backed by the necessary resources, to protect its children. It is a world where punishment for those who violate those laws is swift and certain. It is a world where no child is lost to predators as a result of family poverty and stress a world where strong social and child protection systems are always there to pull them back from the abyss.

63 It is a world where children understand the dangers of the parallel universe of the internet, and can distinguish between a real friend and a random stranger on their laptop. 61 Is such a world possible? I would change the question: can the world afford to continue along its present course, with more children being abused, ever younger children being abused, and the abuse becoming ever more brutal? Clearly not. So the question is not whether we can turn our vision into reality, but how we will go about it. What do we already have in place to help us? I see seven areas that stand out areas where ECPAT has made solid progress over the past three years and areas that provide a platform for our future. These include: our place at the global table and our voice in global debates; regional collaboration and action; a strong focus research and evidence; doing more with the evidence we have through stronger communication; making the most of our ability to convene and to build partnerships; giving voice to children; and strengthening our own network and putting our own house in order so we are ready for the challenges ahead. First, we are there, as never before, at the global table We have a constant presence in many mechanisms and processes of the United Nations. We spell out not only what is happening, but what needs to happen. The past three years have seen us briefing the UN on a vast range of challenges, including the threats to children online; child marriage; the lack of justice for victims; and the risks of sexual exploitation linked to commercial surrogacy. We have, for example, provided vital inputs to the report on ICTs and Violence against Children of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Violence against Children that was presented to the UN General Assembly in September. We are a source of advice and information for the Committee on the Rights of the Child this year we were one of the four lead speakers at their Day of Discussion on Digital media and children s rights. Behind the scenes, we work with our members on their submissions to the Committee on how well (or badly) their countries are doing, particularly in relation to the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. This year alone we have worked with our members in Cambodia, Madagascar, Switzerland and Uruguay, while ECPAT Sweden submitted its own report to the Committee and Colombia contributed to a joint submission by a coalition of child rights NGOs.

64 62 Over the past two years, we have worked with no fewer than eighteen ECPAT members groups on their submissions to the Universal Periodic Review process of the UN Human Rights Council. We have added our voice to the calls across a mass of civil-society organizations pushing, pushing and pushing again on the need to include child protection in the Sustainable Development Goals of the Post 2015 Development Agenda. We have not yet won this battle, but collective advocacy has resulted in getting violence against children into the latest draft of post-2015 agenda. More specifically the draft sustainable development goals on peaceful and inclusive societies includes a target to end abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence and torture against children. During the coming nine months we face a huge advocacy challenge to ensure that this target remains in the post-2015 agenda. If we win this one, it could bring the strong political will and resources required for us to end CSEC. If I list all of the global events at which ECPAT has made its presence felt over the past three years, we would have no time for anything else today! But let me just say this: from the Global Conference on Child Labor in Brasilia to INTERPOL s meetings on Crimes against Children in Lyon, and from the CARICOM meeting on children in Trinidad to Council of Europe meetings in Strasbourg, ECPAT has had a voice and that voice has been heard. And I thank all of you, who in the true spirit of the Network, gave your time to represent ECPAT International at international and regional events. Second, our regional presence is being transformed ECPAT may not be in every country, but we are in every region. We aim to maximize this strength to generate regional advocacy that will, in turn, generate political will political will that is far more likely if we create a sense of regional ownership and accountability among policy-makers. There are four key strands to our regional strategy: collaboration, information, consultation and, of course, people. On collaboration, ECPAT continues to work with key regional entities, including SAARC s South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Council of Europe, the African Union, European Union and the Organization of American States. Our work to inform has included the development of Regional Overviews setting out emerging trends and challenges in addressing the sexual exploitation of children vital new resources to guide policymakers, partners and activists in every region. We have been guided by regional consultations held over the past six months in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, South East Asia, South Asia, Western Europe, and Africa. Each one has pinpointed the regional priorities and strategies that have

65 shaped our new Strategic Framework, has augmented and validated the Regional CSEC Overviews, and has provided a crucial platform to share good practices and build capacity. And here, I must thank the members who worked tirelessly to make these consultations possible there are simply too many to mention here, but your vital contributions have breathed life into our new regional approach. 63 And we have people. Two Regional Coordinators are now on board: Fabio Gonzalez Flórez for Latin America and Catherine Mbengue for Africa and both are ECPAT champions in the quest for an ever- stronger regional voice. Fabio and Catherine are based in Panama and Ethiopia in small offices donated by UNICEF and the African Child Policy Forum. Third, we are at the cutting edge of research and evidence Our new Research Advisory Committee is at the heart of our push for ever-more robust and authoritative evidence. The Committee has supported the development of the ECPAT Research Protocol Template, as well as guidelines on child-friendly consent procedures for child participation in research. Last month, at the World Travel Market in London, we announced the first-ever Global Study on the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, backed by funding that ECPAT Netherlands has received from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Study responds to the urgent need for information about recent trends in phenomenon. It aims to raise awareness and to mobilize action by governments, the tourist industry and civil society organizations to end this crime. Twenty ECPAT members from four regions have now received funds from ECPAT Netherlands for the local research that will inform the Study. Once again, we have expert guidance. The Global Study s Taskforce is drawn from the private, government and non-governmental sectors, under the able leadership of Dr. Najat Maalla M jid, Former Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. Later today, Milena will be giving you more information about the Study. Commencing in 2011, we embarked on the production of second editions of Country Monitoring Reports on the commercial sexual exploitation of children. With the assistance of our members close to seventy reports were produced. One great innovation has been the research and writing of Country Monitoring Reports by ECPAT members in Latin America no fewer than twelve this year. These will be proudly launched at the Pan-American Congress in Brasilia next week. ECPAT International has embarked on two other major research projects this year. One relates to Semantics. Do we use the term child pornography...or do we say child abuse images? Do talk about child prostitution or do we say the exploitation of children through prostitution? In collaboration with ECPAT Luxembourg, an Interagency Terminology and Semantics Project has been launched, led by Professor Jaap Doek. The project recognizes that

66 64 language matters that our terminology must be consistent if our message is not to be diluted. It brings together leading organizations and experts from around the world to achieve understanding and consensus initially in three and eventually in seven languages on the words we use to describe conduct that constitutes the sexual exploitation of children. The other relates to Access to Justice. In partnership with ECPAT members in Moldova, Nepal, the Philippines, Tanzania and Thailand a multi-country study has been launched on the experiences of child victims in accessing justice and remedies for sexual exploitation. This study will generate practical tools that you can use for advocacy. Fourth, we are making better use of our evidence by strengthening our communications Our new website is now a key communications tool user-friendly and providing easyto-find information on our work and on why we do it. Since its re-launch, our news blog is updated every week and the site receives an average of nine-thousand visits per month. Our engagement with social media has soared, following the basic principle of taking the message to the audience via the channels they use, rather than expecting them to come to us. And while our list of media interviews and coverage is as long as, or longer than ever, our new presence on Facebook and Twitter is generating even more exposure for our work. We produce your monthly e-bulletin in four languages, featuring stories and news from the Network, as well as important announcements and information about new publications, resources, and practical tools. And here I must take this opportunity to announce that, thanks to Child Wise, our member in Australia, we now own the domain name ecpat.org. This will make it easier for the general public to find us online. More information on this will be coming your way later this year. Fifth, our ability to convene and to build partnerships is growing Convening and partnering are closely linked. As soon as we convene organizations around a particular issue, another partnership seems to spring up! At the international level, we partner with the Internet Governance Forum, the Virtual Global Taskforce, the World Tourism Organization, UNODC, OHCHR, the offices of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General and the Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the African Committee of Experts on the Rights of the Child, the ILO the list goes on (and on, and on, and on!)

67 As a member of the ITU s International Child Protection Online Initiative, we have contributed to its new version of Guidelines for Industry on Child Protection, which aim to promote the very best practices used by private IT companies to disrupt child abuse materials. 65 Our strong partnership with INTERPOL has included a joint briefing on child sexual abuse online to the Committee on the Rights of the Child earlier this year that was followed by a technical paper responding to a request from the Committee about other gaps in the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. And in just the past two years, we have signed Memoranda of Understanding with Child Helpline International, INHOPE, and the Internet Watch Foundation. Watch this space as these partnerships flourish. At the same time, our partnerships with the private sector are thriving. One of our strongest areas of engagement with the private sector remains The Code of Conduct to Protect Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism. One the positive side, The Code has established an office in Bangkok and thanks to funding from the governments of Germany and Switzerland, has the potential to realize many of the hopes we have had for it for more than a decade. At the same time, for those of you who are Local Code Representatives, I know that there have been some frustrations. Yesterday, Marc Joly took the helm as The Code s new General Manager. Under his leadership we look forward to strong collaboration and big strides in The Code s ability to help the travel and tourism industry combat the sexual exploitation of children. We are also forging a relationship with faith-based organizations. Just last month, in collaboration with the Day of Prayer of Action for Children, ECPAT was the lead presenter at a forum in New York for religious leaders and organizations on the subject of child sexual exploitation online. And just three days ago, we signed a grant agreement with the Church of Sweden that will have as it output a strategy for ECPAT to join hands with faith-based organizations worldwide. Sixth, we are getting better at taking into account the voices of children Without question, we are committed to mainstreaming child participation in our programmes, projects, activities, and our own governance. It was in this spirit that EICYAC was created in Over the past four months we have been taking stock of our progress in this area. An assessment has just about to be completed by Roger Hart, a renowned expert on child and youth participation. We will be looking at his recommendations on how ECPAT can better involve children and young people in our governance particularly those who are survivors and those at high risk. A Giving Voice to CSEC Victims strategy has been developed in consultation with our EICYAC members and Youth Representatives to the Board. As it is rolled out, the strategy will aim for the voices of victims to be heard in all areas of concern and at all levels.

68 66 Finally, we are continually strengthening our network, and we are getting our own house in order Our network continues to grow: there are now eighty-five member organizations spread across seventy- eight countries. We also know more about each other. Our Membership Database that is full of useful information, not only on where and who you all are, but also on what you are doing that works. It is also used to update our Network Hub created in direct response to your appeals for better communication. The Hub is more than a library of documents: it is a place where all of us can share our views, news and research. Please, please use it. When it comes to putting our own house in order, I have to be honest: our staff and our members have faced some hard times as a result of a lack of funding. At the Secretariat, for example, some staff had to reduce their hours and some have lost their jobs. And I know that there are similar stories across the network. But there are signs of improvement. The steep decline in funding is easing off, and it is starting to rise again. For this we must thank our main donors, including the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Irish Aid and the Oak Foundation, to name just three, and recognize the strong support for our Secretariat from our members, including ECPAT France, ECPAT Luxembourg, ECPAT Netherlands and ECPAT Taiwan. Beyond the Secretariat, we are seeing a number of ECPAT members offering each other funding and other support an exciting development. We are in a state of constant vigilance when it comes to the cost-effectiveness of our operations. So, while our location in Thailand is set for the time being, we are in the process of assessing whether this remains the best possible location for the Secretariat. So much has happened over the past three years, and I have only skimmed the surface! Colleagues, given the scale of our efforts, it is no surprise that ECPAT continues to receive international recognition. In 2012, we were honoured with the Asia Democracy and Human Rights Award for our contribution to the development of democracy and human rights in Asia. And in 2013, ECPAT won the Hilton Humanitarian Prize the largest humanitarian prize in the world. The prize goes to organisations judged to have made extraordinary contributions toward alleviating human suffering. It was a proud moment for our colleagues in Africa when the prize was announced in Addis Ababa, and it was equally exciting later on (and also a bit worrying) when Anuradha, Roz, Carol, Lidia, Katlijn, Carmen, Maureen, Milena, Helena and I all clambered on to a fragile stage meant to

69 hold just two people to accept the prize in New York! The Hilton organizers had not counted on the network coming on stage. My fear was that the stage would collapse in our moment of glory. 67 The prize came as a blessing at a moment when the organization was challenged financially to cover the basic costs of the Secretariat. We have invested some of the prize funds in initiatives and projects that will have the maximum return in terms of our knowledge, our profile and our sustainability. Let me give three examples of exciting initiatives that are now underway: First, our programme to combat SECO SECO meaning the Sexual Exploitation of Children On-line As you all know, there has been an exponential growth in the number of child sexual abuse images online. What is the role of civil society in responding to this phenomena? What should be the role of ECPAT? SECO positions ECPAT in the fight to protect children from online dangers. It is grounded in consultations across the Network and with external stakeholders and experts. It aims to strengthen our knowledge of the sexual exploitation of children in cyberspace and our capacity to advocate for policies and programmes to address it. Some of you have already participated in SECO s learning webinars or used its advocacy briefs. Next week, we will be making a presentation on SECO at a very high-level international summit being convened by Britian s Prime Minister Cameron. My hope is that this will open the door to resources for you working in this area. Second, we have added child marriage to our portfolio of work on the commercial sexual exploitation of children. In our regional consultations in South Asia and Africa we heard loud and clear that these so-called marriages are often a cause of or cover for child sexual exploitation. Clear milestones have been set to be to be reached by the end of 2015: a research paper on the links between child marriage and commercial sexual exploitation; member organizations to be on top of this issue and spreading the word; and several member organizations giving a voice to victims of child marriage. Third, there is the ECPAT History Book. We are almost 25 years old. The History Book will be launched on the fifth of May next year to mark this milestone, ideally in the place where ECPAT was born: Chiang Mai, Thailand. I thank all of you who have contributed your inspiring stories, precious (and sometime tattered) photos and special memories to the book and invite you who have not yet done so, to do so quickly. This is your opportunity to go down in history!

70 68 All of this leads me to our new Strategic Framework our direction of travel. It has not dropped from the skies. It has not been prepared by a management consultant parachuted in for the purpose. Rather it is the result of discussions with you our members. It has consumed much of the time of the Secretariat over the past six months, as we moved from region to region for consultations. But we believe is has all been worthwhile and has enabled us to draft a framework that is relevant, that is grounded in your realities, and that will make our Network more effective than ever. It attempts to lay out principles principles that will guide our response to some burning questions, including how to manage our enormous to do list. The need to prioritize: to acknowledge that we cannot do absolutely everything that we might like to do, but that we can make a real difference by doing a few things brilliantly. The need to collaborate: to recognize that no organization can do this alone. The need to move fast: as fast as, or faster than the perpetrators of abuse, who move with frightening speed to outpace every effort to bring them to justice. The need to strengthen our own expertise on emerging issues, such as the streaming of live sex shows, or the risks of commercial surrogacy. And the need for ever stronger and sharper advocacy to keep children the children we seek to serve front and centre in the minds of policy makers and the public. We will be focusing on the Strategic Framework tomorrow. But for now let me say that without you, it is just a few pieces of paper. With you, to give it life, it can transform not only the way in which ECPAT operates, but the lives of the children we aim to protect. So, there is much to celebrate, much to concern us, and much to discuss. Let s seize every moment we have together in these two days to act in a manner that will make a difference for children. Thank you for your kind attention.

71 Appendix 7 GLOBAL STUDY ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN TRAVEL AND TOURISM PRESENTATION 69 Slide 1 Slide 2 Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism Rationale and Objectives of the Global Study Milena Grillo ECPAT Representative on the High-Level Taskforce to End Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism 2 December 2014, Paris, France Slide 3 Slide 4 Methodology Local Research Desk study Local Research Global Study guided by Taskforce Contributions by partners & experts Submissions Victim s Voices Slide 5 Slide 6 Taskforce Contents

72 70 Output 5 Local Studies Slide 7 Slide 8 South East Asia Study Africa Study Global Study East Asia Study Outcome Latin America Study Europe Slide 9 Slide 10 Donors Contributions in kind (many more expected) Call for research on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism dorinek@ecpat.net Donors for Advocacy (to be approached) Slide 11 Questions and Suggestions milena@paniamor.org dorinek@ecpat.net

73 Appendix 8 GLOBAL STUDY ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN TRAVEL AND TOURISM FACTSHEET 71 STUDY ON THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN TRAVEL AND TOURISM With the convening of the first World Congress against the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Stockholm, Sweden in 1996, it was widely recognised that Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism was already at the time a phenomenon of global dimensions. Almost twenty years after the initial recognition and attempts over the past twenty years to eradicate the issue, Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism is still a growing problem. Offenders are increasingly adept at using the travel and tourism industries as a route to child exploitation. New developments have heightened the dangers for children: the rise and anonymity of the Internet and greater access to cheap international travel have expanded demand. At the same time, grinding poverty and lack of education combined with the continued neglect of child protection systems have fuelled the supply of children. The sheer speed and scale of this crime has, to date, out-paced attempts to respond at the international and national level. These attempts continue to be hampered by a failure of collective action and a chronic lack of robust evidence and comparable data that, taken together, allow offenders to commit their crimes in the shadows and with impunity. This is a child rights, a criminal justice and, above all, an international issue. Through this Global Study Project ECPAT intends to mobilise its network of 80 Member Groups in 74 countries and its global partners to undertake a study into this phenomenon, raise awareness and to mobilise concerted, comprehensive and coordinated action from governments, tourist industry and civil society organisations to stop Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism. This Global Study will be guided by a multi-stakeholder High-Level Global Taskforce with members with a wide range of backgrounds contributing to the study, including governmental, non-governmental and private sector. The research will comprise input from the global ECPAT Network, partnering stakeholders and experts and existing research on the topic.

74 72 Expected Outcome and Impact With the long term objective to stop Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism, the Global Study will provide evidence-based knowledge to guide effective decision making. More specifically the Global Study will: provide a global and updated picture of sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, including an analysis of emerging trends and new developments provide, where possible and available, statistical data and figures on child victims and travelling sex offenders, including quantitative trends map and assess current responses to the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, including legislation, sensitization campaigns, capacity building and a range of measures and interventions by different stakeholders to address this challenge propose a set of recommendations to improve government, non-government and private sector responses to the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism The Global Study will lead to an overall global report and stand alone regional reports. The Global Study reports will be disseminated through a website. An inclusive and action oriented research In order to include as many advocates for change the Global Study process will encourage participation from governments, tourist corporations, NGOs, UN Agencies, survivors through invitations for contributions, submissions, a call for research reports, consultations and by incorporating local research by NGOs. For the follow up on the research a plan of action will be agreed on to utilise the launch of the Global Study to galvanize changes and implement recommendations from the Global Study. Coordination The research project is led by a full-time Director Global Study based in ECPAT International. The Director will liaise with those involved in this initiative to ensure effective implementation and timely completion of the proposed activities. Dorine van der Keur Director Global Study Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism dorinek@ecpat.net

75 Appendix 9 WORLD CAFÉ PRESENTATION FEEDBACK 73 Slide 1 Feedback from World Café Summary Slide 2 Volun-tourism Key Issues 1. Definition what is it? 2. Need for Child protection policy 3. Role of The Code in creating an environment that safeguards children ECPAT s Capacities 1. Global standards which can be adapted at the local level 2. Database on best/worst practices (project with CPP, businesses, standards/ blacklists) 3. ID of relevant stakeholders, advocacy at local and regional levels Actions 1. Globally: Research, including legislation and international guidelines 2. Regionally: Awareness raising on all levels (safeguarding and child rights) 3. Locally: Training of stakeholders on the issues

76 74 Slide 3 Data and Research Key Issues 1. Lack of data about modern situation, common tendencies, challenges, level of stakeholder knowledge in some regions 2. Gaps in our knowledge of CSEC (offenders, victims from the middle class families, costs and efficacy of the prevention and rehabilitation programs) 3. No longitudinal research focused on victims and survivors of CSEC ECPAT s Capacities 1. Action oriented and child-focused research approach 2. Development of ethical standards and research framework based on ECPAT expertise 3. Capitalization on ECPAT knowledge (data, research protocols, scale, results etc.) Actions 1. Global: Initiation of effectiveness study of prevention and rehabilitation programs for victims of CSEC 2. Regional: Development of national monitoring systems 3. Local: Basic studies on CSEC, engaging stakeholders, public approach for new ECPAT members Slide 4 Voices of Victims (VoV) Key Issues 1. Child protection mechanisms for engaging, hearing and considering VoV (e.g. non-exploitative/ non-traumatizing/ non-stigmatizing methods) 2. Diversity of voices (gender, demographics, status, capacities, etc.) 3. Purpose and follow-up (with the best interests of the child) 4. The right of a child to choose his/her communication medium (word, art, music, drama, etc.) and the right to be forgotten ECPAT s Capacities 1. Experience, practice and lessons learned in engaging VoV, CYP (e.g YPP, EICYAC) 2. Different forms of communication media (e.g. drama, journals, documentaries) 3. Child protection policies and code of ethics 4. Professional expertise and capacity building tools and training Actions 1. Global: Capacity building and guidelines on engaging, hearing and considering VoV 2. Regional: Sharing experiences that already exist within the Network (including lessons learned) 3. Local: Protection policies and ethical codes- elaboration/adoption and implementation Slide 5 Child Pornography (Child Sex Abuse Images) Key Issues 1. Prevention and education plus resilience sex and risk education 2. Technology 3. Cross-sector collaboration on justice for victims and perpetrators ECPAT s Capacities 1. Facilitate shared learning across all levels 2. Develop data base of resources 3. Build alliances relationships for research Actions 1. Global Campaign 2. Generate baseline research 3. Sensitize and train law enforcement and judiciary 4. Strategic partnerships with the private sector

77 Slide 6 Child Marriage 75 Key Issues 1. Legal framework and policies 2. Social, cultural, sexual norms around the issue of child marriage 3. Weak child safety nets ECPAT s Capacities 1. Awareness raising/advocacy on the linkage between child marriage and CSEC 2. Providing evidence of the impact of child marriage on children 3. Strengthening community-level safety nets Actions 1. Global: Finding evidence of the connection between child marriage and CSEC to strengthen global advocacy and mainstreaming the issue at all levels 2. Regional: Advocacy for legislation and policy on child marriage 3. Local: Strengthening community child safety nets to postpone the age of marriage and to keep children in school Slide 7 Access to Justice Key Issues 1. Empowerment of children to understand their rights 2. Child-friendly/centred proceedings 3. Remedies for victims ECPAT s Capacities 1. Promote and support justice at the international level 2. Develop guidelines for access to justice for ECPAT network members 3. International advocacy to support local action Actions 1. Global: A General Comment on the rights of victims 2. Regional: Joint regional advocacy towards regional mechanisms, political organisations and courts 3. Local: Remedies and reparations at the local level Slide 8 Trafficking Key Issues 1. Sexual exploitation and structural factors of vulnerability 2. Internal trafficking within countries and regions 3. Special attention to trafficking in cross-border situation (e.g. US and Mexico) ECPAT s Capacities 1. Within the ECPAT groups and with other networks 2. Link the work of ECPAT with other relevant issues (labour, migration, etc.) 3. Campaigning as a global movement Actions 1. Holding duty bearers to account for the implementation of international, regional and national standards 2. Focus on demand and supply at national level 3. Strengthening ECPAT groups (capacity building and fundraising) 4. Directing attention to the rights of victims

78 76 Slide 9 Global Study Key Issues 1. Methods, modus operandi, new forms of crime 2. Governance and legislation (migration/law enforcement, tourism development policy for child protection) 3. New trends in travel and tourism ECPAT s Capacities 1. ECPAT reputation & network members with experience 2. Secure quality of process and results 3. Mechanisms to incorporate child victims Actions 1. Global: Global campaign for more visible partnerships with key UN and regional systems 2. Regional: National engagement from states, private sector and CSOs 3. Local/Network: Sharing results of good practices

79 Appendix STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK PRESENTATION Unfinished Business ECPAT International Strategic Framework Slide 1 Introducing the Strategic Framework Slide 2 We are addressing one of the profound moral challenges of our time. It is getting worse, changing and growing fast - Business As Usual is not enough. It demands a global step-change in fighting CSEC together, and with others; business, states, NGO allies. We must build on what we do well, & especially realize our strength as a Network. We also need to change the way we work to adapt to a fast-globalizing problem. Introducing the Strategic Framework Slide 3 We must start by putting the voices of child victims at the heart of all our work. We need to be truly global in our reach to prevent this exploitation world-wide. We need to maximize the benefits of the Network and the Secretariat working together. A consultative process This has been a highly consultative process, involving substantial engagement with all regions. Slide 4 Regional input was incorporated at the beginning of the process in the Planning Workshop conducted with staff and managers. A group of 11 eminent Experts spent 1.5 days in a special workshop responding to the draft The Board and Regions have been consulted on the final version. Consultative Process May December 2014 Slide 5 ECPAT Strategic Framework Slide 6 Regional Consultation External Scan Think Piece MGT Workshop discussion paper Experts meeting Voices of children Stakeholders Revisions International Assembly approval Board finalizes draft Key elements: External context Regional analysis Organizational context Theory of Change Change Goals and Objectives Measures of Success Iterative bottom-up/top down process over 6 months.

80 78 External scan Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Achievements of the 90s The new Millennium Socio-Economic Predictors remain largely the same Are we winning the Battle? The rapidly changing face of CSEC Obstacles to Protection and Recovery of Victims Demand and Offender Profiles Accountability of State and Non-State Actors Allies and Alliances What Gets Measured Gets Done! Slide 7 Slide 8 Regional analysis: Need for a Network Development Strategy Still a limited geographic scope 86/79 countries Need to clarify role of coalitions Assessment of current network, quality, reach and impact (standards) Review of criteria and strategies to effect change across regions Slide 9 Regional Concerns Issues arising from Consultations Data collection, research and documentation of good practices Capacity development of members Identification, reporting, access to justice and remedies Develop global advocacy involving regions and Network members New partnerships incl. the private sector Awareness raising Child and Youth participation Organizational Context Slide 10 ECPAT widely respected externally Secretariat is rebuilding from a period of instability BUT there are insufficient resources to meet ambition need more sustainable $$ Development of collaboration across the Network a priority Theory of Change Assumes: dealing with a growing, mutating global problem Requires: multi-faceted, multicountry, multi-modal response and interventions Involves: actors online and offline Addresses: ideas and beliefs, policies and politics, law enforcement and justice Slide 11 Theory of Change - Ending CSEC requires: Slide 12 Stronger, more accountable Civil Society Network, Strong and clear support by EI for the movement, Leading-edge knowledge on the issue, Increased pressure on duty bearers from multiple voices. Slide 13 Focus remains on the four main manifestations of CSEC 1. Sexual exploitation of children through prostitution 2. Sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism 3. Child trafficking for sexual reasons 4. Child pornography (child sex abuse images and abuses online)...and in some situations: child/early/ forced marriage Structure Slide 14 Forward by Carol Bellamy Vision and Mission - unchanged Six page Executive Summary Full version of thirty pages Summary table of Change Goals - two pages (Annex 8.1) Document available online with clickthrough to Annexes (includes full External Scan and Regional Analysis) Option for roll-over to a six year framework

81 Slide 15 Strategic Framework - How it is different to a Strategic Plan The framework approach encourages collaboration, consistency and coherence around core strategies. Assumes that ECPAT members adopt all of the Change Goals as a guide to their own national plans It does not mean that everyone is expected to follow the same priorities or follow them to the same level. Network members need to hold each other to account for the delivery of the Strategy Slide 16 Change Goals & Objectives to End CSEC Goal 1: Put the voices of child-victims and survivors at the heart of ECPAT s work Goal 2: Build a Global Campaign to end CSEC Goal 3: Convene and broker leading-edge research, knowledge creation and dissemination Goal 4: Develop and strengthen the ECPAT Network (stronger members, greater reach and capacity) 79 Strategic Framework Putting children at the heart of ECPAT s work Slide 17 Slide 18 Change Goal 1. Put voices of child-victims/survivors at the heart of ECPAT s work Ensure that the child-victim s voice is the lens for all ECPAT Network advocacy Drive the global imperative for better identification and rescue of children, including online SEC victims Ensure that victims voices are reflected in policy, legislation, programs and practice in Member States where ECPAT has a presence Create and gain support for a Bill of Rights with and for child victims of sexual exploitation (drawn from existing covenants/optional protocol) Change Goal 2. Build a global campaign to end CSEC Slide 19 Build a sustained, inclusive Global Campaign through a network-wide Media Strategy & effective partnerships. As part of the Global Campaign, increase high-level global & national advocacy, with a major push to fight online CSEC in all its forms. Change Goal 3. Convene and broker leading-edge research Build a Knowledge Coalition; act as a Policy Forum for CSEC Slide 20 Catalyze Knowledge Creation by developing a common Umbrella framework of concepts, definitions & language and systematic, mixed-method approach to data collection and agreements on research ethics in relation to CSEC. To improve knowledge dissemination Change Goal 4. Develop the ECPAT Network Clarify the governance and network model Expand the Network to improve global coverage Strengthen the network through regionalization, capacity-building, and standards Slide 21 Implementation Slide 22 Each Change Goal is spelt out in more detail; in addition to Objectives they include Rationale, Scope, Approach and Measures of Success. Following approval of the Strategic Framework, the EI Secretariat will develop an Operational Plan to address resourcing, ways of working etc. Viability of the Strategy will depend on the level of engagement of the Network.

82 Appendix 11 PARTICIPANT DIRECTORY 80 MOHAMED BAYANE JEAN-THÉOPHILE ABIOLA Project Assistant, WAO-Afrique Mohamed Bayane Jean-Théophile Abiola was born in Lome (Togo) and finished his secondary education at the Revelation School Compound. After finishing his baccalaureate in 2011, he took courses in Sociology at the University of Lomé, alternating with paid trainneeships in Supervision Assistance in Business and Project Management at CEMAT INDUSTRIE. In September 2012, he left school to work at WAO- Afrique. As Project Assistant at WAO-Afrique, he is responsible for the activity and management of children and youth in the fight against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC), a charge that he leads with enthusiasm. He is single and childless. ARLY AKERSTREAM Youth Board Member, Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada Arly Akerstream has been a youth board member for Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada since She joined EICYAC as the North American youth representative in Arly has a B.A. (Honours) degree in Economics and will commence the Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme in January BARIMA AMANKWAAH Ag. National Coordinator, Ghana NGO Coalition on the Rights of the Child (GNCRC) Barima Akwasi Amankwaah is a Ghanaian national currently working with the Ghana NGO Coalition on the Rights of the Child (GNCRC) as the Ag. National Coordinator. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Human Resource Development), a diploma in Social Work, a diploma in Youth Development, a certificate in Criminology (Ireland), a diploma in Counselling and Behaviour Theories, a certificate in HIV/AIDS Management and Care, and a diploma in Organisational Leadership and Strategic Skills. Over the last five years, Mr. Akwasi Amankwaah has worked in the fight against CSEC educating, sensitizing, training, conducting research, assisting ICT managers and ICT users on how to make ICT safe for children. Since 1998, Mr. Akwasi Amankwaah has worked on adolescent reproductive health programmes educating communities, schools and religious groups (Christians and Moslem groups). He has also participated in respective research in communities on CSEC, assisting and coordinating anti-csec programmes in communities through school programmes and other intervention programmes. MUNTAHA AL HARASIS Child Safety Programme Senior Manager, Jordan River Foundation Dr. Muntaha al Harasis holds a Ph.D. in Psychological Counseling and Education and a Master s degree in Psychological Counseling. She worked in the field of counseling from , after which she worked in the field of child abuse protection and social psychological services for children and battered women (JRF). Dr. Al Harasis participated in several conferences relating to the protection of children from abuse, particularly sexual exploitation of children and presented several papers related to the sexual abuse of children and the impact of the environment on the abused child. She wrote several articles and studies on sexual abuse. Dr. Al Harasis now contributes to the building of the Child Protection Programme (Jordan River Foundation) and works as a specialist in the protection and prevention of child abuse and to psychological and social interventions for abused children. She is working to provide the necessary psychosocial support for the team at the Queen Rania Center for Family and Child/Jordan River Foundation private psychological counseling services.

83 FATOUMATA ALFA CISSÉ West Africa Office Director, ECPAT France and Luxembourg Fatoumata Alfa Cissé is the Office Director of the West Africa office of ECPAT France and ECPAT Luxembourg, based in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). Prior to joining ECPAT in Paris, Fatoumata worked with PlaNet Finance in Paris as a development agent. Fatoumata then went to Burkina Faso with PlaNet Finance to develop a project on socio-professional integration for people suffering from HIV/AIDs, especially youth and women. She later joined the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) as an education, governance and economic growth analyst. Fatoumata holds a Master's degree in Administration and International Trade Administration, with a special focus on "Humanitarian Management: Development and Management of Non-governmental Organisations" from the University of Paris 12, and a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Paris DOLORES ALFORTE Executive Director, ECPAT Philippines Presidential appointee to the Committee for the Special Protection of Children, by then President Fidel Ramos and re-appointed by Sec Leila De Lima. Appointed by President Benigno Aquino as member, representing children s non-governmental organisation, to the Inter-Agency Council Against Child Pornography (IACACP), and acts as its Vice-Chair. Spearheaded the campaign against trafficking and became the first National Coordinator of the Philippines Against Child Trafficking (PACT), a network of advocates against child trafficking in the country. Currently, it s Treasurer. Writer of the NGO Alternative Report to the Optional Protocol on the OPSC. Represented the Philippine NGO Community to the Pre-Session conducted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva in February 2012 and attended the Philippine Review of the Implementation of the OPSC held in January Member of the Philippine delegation to the ASEAN Workshop on Implementing the United Nations-Convention on Rights of the Child (UN-CRC) held in Bangkok, Thailand on September 2012 and June IDRISSA AMADOU Coordinator, ANTD Idrissa Amadou is a psychologist and legal expert on Child Rights. Mr. Amadou worked to establish the first street children project in Niger and the first project to support vulnerable women populations in Caritas Niger. He has trained trainers on Child Rights and on the fight against child trafficking, and has worked on many social and professional reintegration programmes for girls. Mr. Amadou is an advocate in the fight against child sexual exploitation both at the national and sub-regional levels; he has led many programmes against trafficking and sexual exploitation of children with a focus on social mobilization. He is also specialized in community-based protection; he initiated and led the first community-based protection programme of vulnerable children in Niger. As a specialized trainer of adults on children s rights, community-based protection and the fight against trafficking and sexual exploitation of children, Mr. Amadou led the Niger component of the African programme against Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation of Children. He is the president of the ANTD (Niger Association for the Treatment of Delinquency and Crime Prevention).

84 82 DENISSE ARAYA Executive Director, ONG Raíces Denisse Araya Castelli is a graduate of the Catholic University of Lyon, France in Social Sciences. She is Executive Director of the NGO Coalition Roots Development (Desarrollo Raíces). Ms. Araya has been responsible for a number of projects on the protection of children and adolescents and on gender studies. She has served as a consultant and evaluator of projects on gender issues funded by the Cooperation Agency (APN, OXFAM, IDLO), Arbitration Center of Mexico, and the Chilean Center on Studies of Criminal Law. Ms. Araya has worked as a lecturer at the University of Chile, Iberoamerican University and Autonomous University of Chiapas in Mexico, University of El Salvador in Costa Rica, among others. She has conducted research on labor conditions faced by women in the textile industry, fishing and agriculture, as well as CSEC and other forms of child exploitation. She first started working with ECPAT International leading up to the Third World Congress against the Sexual Exploitation of Children in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in As part of her cooperation with ECPAT, she has monitored the situation of CSEC in Chile and co-organized training workshops on CSEC for organisations that are members of the Latin American ECPAT Network. ANDY ARDIAN Programme Manager, ECPAT Indonesia Andy Ardian was born in Malang on 18 April He graduated from the University of North Sumatra School of Agriculture in 2004, where he was active in the Agriculture Student Association and initiated the establishment of HIMADITA Nursery, a student creativity unit. Mr. Ardian started his career in social work when he became a volunteer following the Aceh tsunami. He was introduced to child protection issues when he joined a tsunami response programme implemented by the Center for Child Study and Protection (PKPA) on Simeulue Island in In 2006, became an Area Coordinator and led child participation programmes in Simeulue District, Nangroe Aceh Darussalam Province until In 2009, he became a coordinator for the Center for Reproductive Health and Gender Information in PKPA, focusing on youth issues, reproductive health socialization and campaigns, HIV/AIDS, and prevention of child trafficking and sexual exploitation. In July 2014 he started working for ECPAT Indonesia. ADEM ARKADAS Head of Human/Child Rights Programme, Turkish Network Against CSEC Adem Arkadas-Thibert studied Political Science, Social and Economic Demography and Human Rights Law with a specific focus on Child Rights Law. He worked in different countries and in several capacities at/with OSCE, UNHCR, ASAM, and Children s Legal Centre. Since 2005, he has been working at the International Children s Center (ICC) based in Turkey as head of the Human Rights Programme. Since his joining, the programme produced more than 75 publications and reached hundreds of thousands of people. He raises and manages a budget of around 300,000 EUROs each year. He has publications, reports and articles on child rights, human rights and refugee issues. His main areas of interest are monitoring human rights law and human rights impact assessment. He has over 18 years of experience in developing policy advocacy initiatives, network building, training materials as well as running trainings and projects in human rights and children s rights.

85 MERSILA BALLO Project Manager, Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania CRCA Mersila Ballo completed her studies at the University of Turin with a Bachelor s Degree in Political Science and a graduate degree in International Relations and Human Rights. She joined CRCA s staff in March of 2012, first as an Assistant Manager for the programme Tirana: My city-my voice and later as Programme Manager for the UNICEF-CRCA Albania project Protection of children from violence in Albania. Since October 2013 she has been the Programme Manager of Every Roma child in Kindergarten, and also assists ALO 116-The Albanian National Child Helpline in fundraising activities. Since has serves as the Policy Advisor for the foundation of the Albanian Coalition for Child Education. 83 BESTONE BANDA Programme Manager, Children in Need (CHIN) Network (CHIN) in Zambia. He has worked with CHIN for 11 years and he has experience in child protection and participation. He pioneered the girl power project and a number of child participation programmes such as the Children s Caucus and the Make IT Safe for children campaign in Zambia. Mr. Banda s education is in Information Technology and Mass Communication, with additional courses in Child Rights, for which he has participated in local and international conferences on child protection. Mr Banda has also worked as media personnel for the national TV/Radio broadcasting station designing and publishing child rights documentaries. Away from work, Mr. Banda is a musical artist endeavoring to reach the masses using his talent. For more on Bestone's musical and advocacy, Google his name. WAHIDA BANU Executive Director, Aparajeyo Bangladesh Ms. Wahida Banu is the Executive Director of Aparajeyo-Bangladesh (AB), a national Child Rights organisation founded in AB serves 200,000 disadvantaged youth, 35,000 women, 100,000 community members, and upholds the UN CRC and MDGs for creating a child-friendly country. AB became a full ECPAT member in Ms. Banu was instrumental in the creation of a toll-free number Childhelpline (1098) and the Street/Working Children s Bank Bangladesh, which has been replicated countrywide. Ms. Banu also leads the movements to Stop Children in Begging and grassroots organisations to combat violence against children (VAC). Ms. Banu is the current Chairperson for Habitat Council, Bangladesh and is a member of NACG. She is a current member of Global March Against Child Labour, Child HelpLine International, SAACH South Asian Association for Child Helpline, and the End Child Slavery Movement. She holds a Masters degree in Science, a diploma in Social Development and Community Based Management from Canada, and an MBA from the US. She has many publications and awards. NATALIA BAYRAM Attorney, La Strada Moldova Natalia Bayram has worked in juvenile justice since 2010 when she started with the International NGO La Strada. As a lawyer, Ms. Bayram has provided legal assistance to child victims of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse in criminal cases, often mediating between the police and the victim. Ms. Bayram has been an expert consultant on many occasions to the Maldovan Government and Parliament, including providing expert support to the Convention on the protection of children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse, the criminalization of other forms of sexual abuse against children, and expanding the Criminal Proceeding Code regarding special conditions of legal hearings of children victims. Ms. Bayram also has rich experience training judges and prosecutors on best practices of prosecuting commercial sexual exploitation

86 84 of children (CSEC) and various forms of sexual abuse. As a lecturer, she also works with representatives of child protection services to build strategies to counter CSEC and to effectively protect children against sexual abuse, including trafficking in children. CAROL BELLAMY Chair, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Ms. Bellamy recently completed a three year term as the Chair of the Global Partnership for Education. Prior to this she served as President and CEO of World Learning, a private, non-profit organisation promoting international understanding through education and development in over 70 countries. Ms. Bellamy previously served for 10 years as Executive Director of UNICEF, the children s agency of the United Nations. In this role, she organised, together with ECPAT International and the Japanese government, the Second Word Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Yokohama, Japan. In 2004, Ms Bellamy was named one of Forbes Magazine s 100 Most Powerful Women in the World and in 2009, she was awarded the Légion d Honneur by the Government of France. STEVE BETINSKY Chief Executive Officer, Child Wise Steve has enjoyed a long and successful career in leadership across a diverse range of sectors included utilities, telecommunications and financial services. Steve joined the Child Wise Board as a Non-Executive Director in Prior to taking on the CEO role at Child Wise in 2013, Steve held a number of senior executive roles within the corporate sector, most recently as National General Manager, Transaction Banking at National Australia Bank. Steve has also held the roles of Operations Manager, Telstra National Activations Centre and Head of Payment Solutions at NAB. Steve holds a Graduate Diploma in Management and is currently completing his Masters of Business Administration. Steve is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). Steve sits on the Federal Governments Online Safety Consultative Working Group, the Asia Pacific Financial Coalition against Child Pornography. TALIA BOGNI Director, ECPAT Switzerland Talia Bongni, MLaw, LL.M. Int. Child Rights, is a lawyer and child rights expert. She is a legal expert with Child Protection Switzerland and became Director of ECPAT Switzerland in Prior to joining ECPAT Switzerland, Talia Bongni worked for the Swiss Foreign Office as well as the Federal Office of Justice and Police. She also held positions with child rights organisations in Pakistan and London. Talia Bongni is trained in law (Université de Fribourg, Suisse) and International Law on the Rights of the Child and Human Rights (University of London, Queen Mary/SOAS). LAURA BOSCH Legal Advisor, ECPAT Netherlands Laura Bosch works as a legal advisor for Defence for Children - ECPAT Netherlands. She holds a Law degree, specializing in Criminal and Asylum/Immigration Law. She is involved in the Helpdesk, offering socio-legal assistance to children trafficked within and from outside the Netherlands. Projects she is involved in concern the GIRL POWER programme in cooperation with several ECPAT partners in Africa and EU projects on the identification of child victims of trafficking in the Netherlands.

87 DAVID BOULANGER Director, NOW.BE David Boulanger has been the director of NOW.BE for 15 years, developing skills through fun and various tools, such as e-learning, serious game, training, business theater, etc. Since NOW.BE s inception, they have helped ECPAT Belgium with communications, web design, and other communications related support. Mr. Boulanger is the lucky father of four kids, which he says takes as much time as his job. 85 BÉATRICE BOURON Director, AMANE Béatrice Bouron is Director of the Better Future for Our Children Association (AMANE), Morocco. She first started collaborating with ECPAT France in 2006 in Madagascar and Morocco on sexual violence against children, with a particular focus on sexual abuse, child prostitution and the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism. Ms. Bouron s expertise is in the field of Capacity Building, working with stakeholders fighting sexual violence against children. Ms. Bouron is also an expert in developing prevention programmes; specifically in the development of self-protection measures for children against sexual violence. CLAUDE BRIADE Head of Communications & Partnerships, ECPAT Luxembourg Following a career at Associated Press as a journalist-cameraman specialising in humanitarian crises from , Claude Briade worked in Nicaragua for the Luxembourg overseas development cooperation. On his return to Luxembourg, he managed the Communication and Fundraising Department of Doctors Without Borders before resuming activities as an independent consultant on fundraising and new information and communication technologies (ICT). Claude joined ECPAT Luxembourg as the Communications and Partnerships Manager in His medium-term objectives are to increase ECPAT Luxembourg s visibility, reputation and ensure a diversification of its funding. His job also includes the development of communication tools (website, social networks, newsletter, annual report, project information sheets, press releases, etc.), strengthening communication by promoting the collection of information from the field, as well as recruiting, retaining and reactivating private or corporate donors. These activities lead him to encourage or participate in the substantive debates within our movement. HANNAH BRISTOW Project Manager, ECPAT Luxembourg Hannah Bristow has worked in the international development and humanitarian aid sector for fifteen years with a specific focus on programme development and institutional funding. Her professional experience includes working for several UKbased international NGOs such as Christian Aid, ACORD (Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development) and CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas Development, a member of the Caritas network). She now holds the position of Project Manager for ECPAT Luxembourg, where she has spent the last seven years. During this time, she has focused primarily on developing its development education and awareness-raising activities. She is now responsible for overseeing the development, funding and monitoring of ECPAT Luxembourg s projects in West Africa.

88 86 FERNANDA CABALLERO Regional Coordinator, Gurises Unidos Fernanda Caballero is a licensed psychologist. Since 2000, she has been working with United Boys (Gurises Unidos) on a number of projects and programmes focused on the protection of vulnerable children and adolescents at a regional and national level. Since 2006, Ms. Caballero has been serving as Coordinator of Cordón Centre Area of United Boys on technical and policy-focused projects aimed at children and adolescents living on the streets, teen mothers and the commercial sexual exploitation of children. For the past two years, she has been training teams of representatives of public and private institutions on the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Ms. Caballero was coordinator and author of the report Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents in Uruguay: Dimension, characteristics and proposals for intervention. Since 2013, she has been representative of United Boys to ECPAT International. LUZ STELLA CÁRDENAS Director, Fundación Renacer/ ECPAT Colombia Stella Cárdenas is founder and director of Fundación Renacer, established in Under Ms. Cárdenas leadership, Renacer has implemented a pioneer care system for victims of CSEC in Latin America and the Caribbean that has served as an example for other institutions working on these same issues in the region. Ms. Cárdenas has managed the design and implementation of Comprehensive Care Programmes for Children and Adolescents who have been victims of CSEC in Bogotá, Cartagena and Barranquilla, among other cities. She has advised international NGOs in developing care programmes for victims of CSEC in other countries such as the Dominican Republic and Paraguay. In addition, Ms. Cárdenas and Renacer have significantly contributed to raising awareness about CSEC in Colombia, and facilitated a stronger commitment by public and private organisations, businesses and academic institutions to provide assistance to children. In 2004, Ms. Cárdenas received the Woman Cafam award for her outstanding contribution to the fight against sexual exploitation of children in the region. Ms. Cardenas holds a degree in Psychology from the University of La Sabana (Colombia). CLAUDIA CARVALHO SOUZA Trustee, Luna Nueva Maria Claudia Carvalho Souza holds a degree in Social Services and a Master s Degree in Public Policy and Development Cooperation. She has further education in Project Management and Evaluation, HHRR, Children Rights and Social Research. She started her career as a trainer for CUT Brazil in Group Relations, Communication and Planning and Societal Analysis. When she moved to Paraguay, she started working with CUT Paraguay and organized the First Campaign against sexual harassment in the workplace in addition to coordinating events and courses. Afterwards, she worked with the Centre of Documentation and Studies where she participated in social research activities on women and children s issues and coordinated training activities for popular organisations and NGOs. In 1999, she joined the Luna Nueva Group to coordinate projects for the eradication of children s involvement as SCW, children s work within the ILO/IPEC Programme, and other programmes funded by the EU and bilateral donors. Within this framework, Claudia has been cooperating with ECPAT since 1999 and participated in the 2006 Forum for Regional Specialists in TID/ESCNNA/Trata.

89 GITA CHAKRABORTY Senior Deputy Director, Ain o Salish Kendra Gita Chakraborty has been working in the child rights field for over 16 years. Over the years, her expertise had been developed in the field of child rights, violence against children, child sexual abuse and exploitation, monitoring the child rights situation in Bangladesh against the concluding observation by UNCRC, social mobilization, sensitizing and strengthening local government towards Child Rights, Human Rights, education, research and advocacy both locally and nationally. Ms. Chakraborty has a specialization in management of partnership programmes, BCC, capacity building and organisational development, and social movements against child rights violations. She has built a strong network with the child rights community inside and outside Bangladesh. Ms. Chakraborty holds a Master s degree in Social Science from the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. 87 ADITI CHANCHANI Director, EQUATIONS Aditi Chanchani is Director of EQUATIONS. She provides the oversight to EQUATIONS Programmes on strategic fit, political positions and institutional linkages. Another key role is nurturing people and processes, aimed towards collective leadership in the organisation. Aditi has engaged with EQUATIONS in different capacities since 2000; she currently also works in the programmes on Institutions, Polices and Tourism Models and Society Culture and Tourism and coordinates the Tourism Resource Centre. She has a Masters in Tourism and Leisure. KETSANEE CHANTRAKUL Project Coordinator, ECPAT Foundation Thailand Ketsanee Chantrakul has been working with ECPAT Foundation Thailand, based in Chiang Rai, since Ketsanee has coordinated work on different programmes to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) including care and protection, awareness raising on CSEC and Trafficking, capacity building and the youth partnerships project. The work is undertaken via training, workshops, radio programmes, mobile theatre and other events, in collaboration with government agencies, civil society organisation and the private sector. She also served on a Child Protection Committee and Child Rights Committee with the Thai Government. Prior to joining ECPAT, Ketsanee worked with Rak Thai Foundation, on the Care for Women and Children affected by HIV/AIDs Project and Save the Children UK, on the Community Based Rehabilitation for Children with Disabilities project. YI-LING CHEN International Affairs Officer, ECPAT Taiwan Yi-Ling Chen has worked with ECPAT Taiwan since 2007 and has been in charge of Research and Advocacy since Yi-Ling has a Master s degree in Health and Welfare Policy and professional experience in the areas of women s health, gender equality, and public participation.

90 88 ELÉANORE CHIOSSONE Child Protection Advisor, ECPAT France Eléanor Chiossone is a lawyer specializing in International Law and Human Rights with a particular focus on Children's Rights and Refugee Law. She worked for over ten years on the ground in protection issues (children, women, refugees and IDPs) of populations affected by armed conflict or natural disasters. She joined ECPAT France in January 2012 as their Technical Advisor on Child Protection. She is in charge of child trafficking and cyber child pornography projects and represents ECPAT France in legal matters and with police services. Prior to her work with ECPAT, Ms. Chiossone was an assessor for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at the National Court of Asylum in Paris. NARAE CHOI Co-director, Tacteen Naeil Narae Choi graduated from Seoul Theological University. She has co-directed ECPAT Korea/Tacteen Naeil since 12 May, DR. Jaouad CHOUAÏB President, Association Bayti Dr. Jaouad Chouaïb is a pediatric surgeon who has been in practice for twenty years in Casablanca, working for the protection, promotion and defense of children's rights. He has been a member of the NGO Bayti since 2003, with which he has held several positions, including becoming Bayti s president in He is a founding member and current president of the socio-educational and cultural center of Sidi Maarouf (Casablanca), a member of the Moroccan Society of Pediatric Surgery (since 1998) and has served as a civil society representative to the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of Morocco since February, ARIANE COUVREUR Project Manager, ECPAT Belgium Ariane Couvreur graduated with a Master's degree in History (Belgium, 2006) as well as an MSc in Politics and Government in the European Union (London School of Economics, 2008). After working for 6 months as a project manager for a women's rights organisation in Brussels, she joined ECPAT Belgium in April, As Project Manager, she is responsible for the daily management of ECPAT Belgium's projects: national campaigns, European projects (Make-IT-Safe, Don't Look Away, Mario II), information sessions/trainings for (future) tourism professionals, support to the Western Europe Regional Representative for the advocacy activities at the EU level, writing analyses and studies on CSEC related topics, communication, fundraising, supervision of the interns, etc.

91 DR. DORTHEA CZARNECKI Project Manager, ECPAT Germany Dorothea Czarnecki has worked within the ECPAT network for the last nine years, starting at the Paniamor Foundation in Costa Rica. She received her Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Oldenburg University, Germany in 2012 on the commercial sexual exploitation of girls in Guatemala. After two years as a child protection expert working in the prevention of sexual violence, Dr. Czarnecki moved to the KOK, the German NGO network against Human Trafficking in Germany, which serves as the umbrella organisation of all counselling services for victims of THB and interfaces policy and practice. In 2014, she joined the ECPAT Germany office where she coordinates the EU project "Don't look away!" against CSEC in travel and tourism. Dr. Czarnecki will be supporting the ECPAT International team during the Assembly. 89 MARIE DARMAYAN Madagascar Office Director, ECPAT France Marie Darmayan joined ECPAT France as the director of the Madagascar office in Together with a team of 15, she is running a pilot project Don t Look Away to fight Child Sex Tourism in Antananarivo and Nosy Be. Over the years she has engaged with international non-governmental organisations in the field of humanitarian work and child protection. Marie Darmayan worked for 10 years as a technical advisor in education/child protection and a country director, mainly in Latin America, Asia and France. Prior to joining ECPAT France, Marie Darmayan was working in France for the NGO Asmae, as a Desk Officer for their projects in India and the Philippines. Between 2005 and 2009, she worked for EMDH (Enfants du Monde Droits de l Homme), a child rights based organisation in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Vietnam and Sri Lanka on various child protection issues, such as institutionalized children, children in conflict with the law, working children, street children, etc. JO DE LINDE Board member, ECPAT France Board of Trustees Josephine de Linde was born and educated in England, but has lived most of her life abroad, in India, Hong Kong, and now France. In 1963, she was selected by Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) to teach English in a school in Kalimpong in the Himalayas. While in India, she also worked as a volunteer for Mother Theresa in her home for dying destitutes in Calcutta. Mrs. de Linde then lived in Hong Kong for seven years where she had a variety of jobs and played an active role in the community working as a volunteer and on the Board of the Heep Hong Society for Handicapped children, and the Cheshire Homes. Since moving to Paris in 1977, Mrs. de Linde has worked as a translator for various publishing houses, French television networks and several major NGOs. She was personal assistant to a film producer and from 1994 to 1999 was office manager for the Financial Times. Mrs. de Linde served as a member of the Executive Committee of ECPAT from 1994 to She was elected chairperson in September 1999 and served two terms. After that, she represented the organisation at the United Nations and as a liaison with NGOs in Geneva. She is currently a serving member of the Board of ECPAT France. HÉLÈNE DE RENGERVE Senior Planning & Monitoring Officer, ECPAT International Hélène de Rengerve joined ECPAT on October 1 st 2014 as Senior Planning & Monitoring Officer. Hélène is French and worked subsequently as Director of European Affairs and Head of Donors Relations for IRCT in Brussels (Belgium) since 2010, focusing on fundraising, project design & management and advocacy. From she worked as Administrative and Financial Director of Parcours d Exil, an NGO she co-founded in Previous experience also includes: trainer on European funds, mission leader at WelcomEurope and project manager on International events. Helene holds a BA in Trade

92 90 and Management, an MA in European Studies and a Fundraising Certificate (ESSEC/AFF). Hélène speaks French (native language), English (fluent) and Spanish (intermediate). IARA DE WITTE Project Assistant, ECPAT Netherlands Iara de Witte is Project Assistant at the Children s Rights and Sexual Exploitation department of Defence for Children ECPAT Netherlands. Via the organisation s Helpdesk, Iara is involved in offering legal assistance from a children s rights perspective to victims of trafficking. Next, several European projects are conducted, including on multi-stakeholders cooperation in the protection of minors against trafficking, and on other forms of exploitation such as for criminal activities. Other international projects, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, include the Girl Power Programme on reducing violence against girls and young women with six partners in Africa, and Reducing violence against children, with special focus on child sex tourism with 24 partners, implemented in 30 countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Iara is Master of Arts in European Studies and is experienced in human and children s rights and (inter)national law on Trafficking in Human Beings. PROF. ROMA DEBABRATA President, Ramola Bhar Charitable Trust, Project STOP Prof. Roma Debabrata taught for 43 years at Miranda House, University of Delhi, India and was also involved in research with other international universities and organisations focusing on Human Rights issues. Prof Roma Debabrata received the Ashoka Fellowship in 2002 for formulating a community vigilante model among a migrant population in Delhi to combat the community s rampant human trafficking. She is the President of STOP Trafficking and Oppression of Children and Women and serves as the managing Trustee of Ramola Bhar Charitable Trust, under which STOP was initiated as a global movement against trafficking for commercial sexual purposes in STOP joined the ECPAT network in 2008 and has participated in two major ECPAT initiated programmes: ECPAT & the Body Shop STOP Sex Trafficking of Children & Young people Campaign and Child Protection Policy and Development of Child Safe Organisation Toolkit. Apart from this Prof. Roma Debabrata has been a part of several ECPAT Consultations and contributed in the South Asia CSEC Overview ECPAT International. KATLIJN DECLERCQ Vice President, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Katlijn Declercq has worked for ECPAT Belgium since 1994 and was involved with the first ECPAT campaign End child prostitution in Asian tourism. She is considered an expert in combating CSEC and lobbies for ECPAT International at the main European institutions. She was president of the ECPAT International Project of Participation of Young People in Manila in 2000 and a member of the ECPAT International preparatory team for the Council of Europe Convention against Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation of Children in Katlijn has participated in all ECPAT International Assembly's and in the first meetings of ECPAT Western Europe. She works as an expert for the Belgian Government on the issue of CSEC. In 1996 she was the Secretary of the National Commission on Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and was head of the Belgian NGO delegation to the Second and the Third World Congress in Yokohama (2001) and Rio de Janeiro (2008).

93 YARED DEGEFU Executive Director, FSCE Yared Degefu worked with four different local and international non-governmental organisations for 20 years before joining the Forum on Sustainable Child Empowerment (FSCE), as its Executive Director in March of Yared s first exposure to children s issues was in early 1995 while working with Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS) caring for unaccompanied and refugee children. In 2000, he joined Mary Joy, a child focused organisation, and worked for more than three years before eventually serving as Programme Head. In September 2003, he joined the Joint Office of CAFOD/Trocaire/SCIAF and served for more than nine years supporting many local partners programmes, including care for children. Yared was a co-founder and active member of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) multi-country HIV team that enabled him to co-author various web published tools and guidelines. Yared also has experience consultant on international development issues. Yared holds a BA in Management and an MBA in Project Management. 91 NJUNDU DRAMMEH National Coordinator, CPA Gambia Njundu Drammeh currently works with the Child Protection Alliance (CPA), as National Coordinator. Prior to holding this position, he worked as a National United Nations Volunteer with UNICEF and Senior Social Welfare Officer and Team Leader, Child Care Unit, Department of Social Welfare. Over the years, and with the financial support of ECPAT, CPA has worked in the tourism industry of the Gambia to ensure children are protected from Sex Tourism and other forms of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. CPA carries out research, strengthens capacity of stakeholders in tourism, contributes to the development of the Gambia Tourism Board Code of Conduct and popularized the Tourism Offences Act Mr. Drammeh holds a Bachelor s Degree (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Delhi and a Diploma in Gender and Development from the Management Development Institute (MDI). NORBERT FANOU-AKO Coordinator, CLOSE Norbert Fanou-Ako received his secondary and university education at the College of General Education in Lokossa and the National University of Calavi, Benin, respectively. Mr. Fanou-Ako started his career in banking in 1973, in which he worked until He is CAP, Brevet, and DTSS certified. Mr. Fanou-Ako s organisational skills led him to promote the human rights of more than 1,000 workers while he was working for the banking sector union. He is a fierce defender of vulnerable populations, especially children. In 2004, he was appointed as the Technical Advisor from Civil Society by the government of Benin, during which time he mobilized significant resources for CSOs. He founded the ESAM NGO in 1987 to fight against violations of children s rights. Mr. Fanou-Ako is also an important player in the fight against CSEC, coordinating several networks for promoting child rights under CLOSE. ZEMZEM JEMAL GEDA Regional Area Programme Manager, FSCE Zemzem Jemal Geda holds a BA in Educational Psychology. She worked as a guidance counselor and taught high school and college before returning to school to pursue her Masters in Developmental Psychology. In 2006, she joined the Forum on Sustainable Child Empowerment (FSCE) as a counselor and Project Officer for vulnerable children populations, including sexually abused, exploited and trafficked children. In 2007, Ms. Geda then assumed the FSCE position of Programme Coordinator for sexually abused, exploited and trafficked children of in seven area programme offices. Her involvement with ECPAT started after assuming this position and she now serves as the ECPAT

94 92 Programme Coordinator of FSCE. In addition to coordinating projects within FSCE and the ECPAT East African Groups (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), she is now also directs the FSCE- Regional Area Programme Manager. DR. LORINA GHITU Project Coordinator, CCF Moldova Dr. Lorina Ghitu has been a community entry facilitator, project coordinator, and child protection officer within CCF Moldova since CCF Moldova is the leader of the Moldavian Network of National Organisations Fighting against Child Prostitution and Trafficking. In , Lorina Ghitu was the National Coordinator within the Youth Partnership Project, financed by ECPAT International, the EU, and OAK Foundation. The experience was excellent and the feedback of participants was very positive. The work was continued in , when CCF Moldova realized the projects: Fight against sexual exploitation of children, and Certified Internet Safe School Project. Guided by Lorina Ghitu as NC, Moldovan youth engage in new advocacy activities, including the collection of signatures for the global action Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People Petition, which collected an impressive 1,520 signatures. Dr. Ghitu is also a lecturer in Russian and Romanian on World Literature at Moldova State University. DR. SUSANNA GREIJER Semantics Project Coordinator, ECPAT Luxembourg Dr. Susanna Greijer joined ECPAT Luxembourg in June She is currently the Project Coordinator of the joint ECPAT International ECPAT Luxembourg project Terminology and Semantics, and is also in charge of ECPAT Luxembourg s participation to the Don t Look Away! project against the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism. Susanna Greijer holds a PhD and an LLM in International Law from the European University Institute and a Master s degree in International Affairs from Sciences Po Paris. She has worked with and done research on children s rights and child protection since 2006, with experience in Europe and in Colombia. Susanna Greijer also acts as an independent expert to the Council of Europe, and lectures regularly in various academic institutions. MILENA GRILLO Executive Director, Fundación PANIAMOR Milena Grillo is the Executive Director of Fundación PANIAMOR, a Costa Rican private, non-profit, independent organisation created in The organisation works in the field of children and adolescents rights, with a special focus on preventing violence and overcoming social exclusion affecting this population. A former member of the ECPAT Board, Ms. Grillo is a law graduate specialised in Human Rights, with a Master s degree in Social and Family Violence. She has acted as a consultant and programme leading officer for governmental and non-governmental international co-operation agencies in the field of public policy, violence prevention and children and adolescents rights, including the European Commission, ECPAT International, Save the Children, the UN Inter-regional Crime and Justice Research Institute, the UN World Tourism Organisation, the UN International Labour Office, UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, the Pan American Health Organisation, and the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB). Currently, Ms. Grillo represents the Latin American Region at the International Council of NGO on Violence against Children that follows up on the recommendations of the 2006 UN Global Study on Violence against Children and accompanies the mandate of the SRSG-VAC, as well as a member of the Taskforce leading the ECPAT Global Study to End Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism.

95 FABIENNE GROJEAN Mali Office Coordinator, ECPAT Luxembourg Fabienne Diakité Grojean was born in Brussels in She is a qualified social worker. She has worked in the social sector as well as the international development sector since 1989, holding various positions during her career, for example, general secretary, advocacy officer, coordinator for educational projects on development and culture. In 2007, she started to work for ECPAT Luxembourg in Mali, where she was responsible for setting up the coordination office and currently ensures the coordination of projects from their conception to their completion. She leads and supervises a team of 3 people. As a member of the board of the COMADE (Malian coalition on the rights of the child), she participated in drafting the Civil Society Supplementary Report in the context of the UN Periodic Review. She also conducts missions in other countries of the sub region (Senegal, Burkina Faso) within the context of ECPAT Luxembourg s activities. 93 ELIETTE GUYOT Financial Advisor, ECPAT France After graduating from the Political Science Institute (Science Po) of Grenoble, France in 2010, and two years of experience in microcredit, Eliette Guyot joined ECPAT France in September 2012 as Financial Advisor. In this position, she supports the Asian offices and their projects on child protection and CSEC. Since March 2013, she has worked as Financial Advisor for both Acting for Life and ECPAT France. HODA HAMWIEH KARA Director, Dar Al Amal (House of Hope) Hoda Kara is a Sociologist from Lebanon committed to children s and women s rights. She served as the regional coordinator of Terre des Hommes, Lebanon until 1995 when she became the director of the NGO, Dar Al Amal (DAA, The House of Hope). DAA manages prevention and protection centers for children at risk of, and victims of, sexual violence, a social rehabilitation and reintegration center for girl and women victims of commercial sexual exploitation, and also a project to help incarcerated and released women. Ms. Kara has participated in many ECPAT events: 2001 Second World Congress (Japan); 2002 General Assembly (Bangkok); 2004 evaluation project of EI Thailand; 2005 General Assembly (Rio de Janeiro). She has also participated in numerous international conferences and consortiums on violence against children, including as the organizer of the first CSEC seminar in Lebanon, under the patronage of the first lady. In October 2012, ECPAT France started a Convention of Partnership with DAA titled, Project Prevention and Protection of Children from Sexual Violence, through Capacity Building, Awareness and Advocacy, which includes national research and situational analysis on sexual abuse of children in Lebanon. LUCINDA HARDWICK Head of Fundraising, ECPAT UK Lucinda Hardwick is Head of Fundraising at ECPAT UK. She has been working in the human rights sector for ten years, with specific experience in developing organisations that support refugees, torture survivors and trafficking victims. She has a track record of securing six figure sums for charities and social enterprises and has a mild addiction to biscuits.

96 94 BOUBACAR HASSANE Financial and Administrative Officer, Mali Office, ECPAT Luxembourg Boubacar Hassane holds a Master of Financial Management degree. He has been working in government projects and international NGOs since 1996 where he has filled several functions, such as chief administrator and chief accountant at the NGO Action against hunger. During his my career he has been required to manage funding from the EU, the French Agency of Development, USAID and the Spanish overseas development cooperation, AECID. Mr. Hassane joined the coordination office of ECPAT Luxembourg in Mali as financial and administrative officer in February His main tasks are the supervision of partner financial reports as well as strengthening partner administrative and financial capacities. He participates in internal and external meetings, as well as workshops organised by ECPAT Luxembourg in Mali for which he manages logistics. He also collects and centralises information from partner organisations, which is relevant for the logical framework, in which he involves himself in order to benefit from an overview of ECPAT Luxembourg s actions and efficiency. SABRINA HUEZEY Finance Director, ECPAT France and Acting for LIfe After working in microcredit, Sabrina Heuzey became a Senior Auditor at KPMG, specializing in the legal audit of NPOs. She entered Acting for Life as the Asia Finance Officer, for the child protection desk. Since June 2013, she is the Finance Director for both Acting for Life and ECPAT France. She is a graduate of ESCP Europe Business School. JEREMY HOBBS Advisor, ECPAT International Jeremy Hobbs has over twenty years experience as a CEO in International NGOs. He led Oxfam Australia (formerly Community Aid Abroad) from 1992 until 2001 and was a founding Board member of Oxfam International. He became the Executive Director of Oxfam International at the end of 2001, a post he held until Jeremy is now an international consultant working with the not-for-profit sector, drawing on experience in organisational development, including mergers, restructuring and strengthening organisations. He is also involved at the global level on accountability for NGOs (immediate past Chair of INGO Accountability Charter) and was a founding Board member of the International Civil Society Centre (formerly Berlin Civil Society Centre.) At Oxfam International Jeremy represented Oxfam in high level advocacy; engaging with governments, business and multi-lateral organisations on trade (WTO), Arms Control Treaty (UN), sustainable development, climate change (UNFCCC), the Millennium Development Goals, and the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals. While at Oxfam Australia, he led Oxfam s response to the crisis in East Timor, and the organisation s engagement in indigenous affairs.

97 ELVIRA ILIBEZOVA National Coordinator, Network of NGOS against CSEC in Kyrgyzstan Elvia Ilibezova graduated from the Kyrgyz State University Department of Finance and Credit in 1984 and in 1991 received a PhD in Economic Sciences from the Institute of Economy and Agricultural, USSR. Dr. Ilibezova has held numerous prestigious positions: Deputy Director of the Institute of Statistical Studies of the National Statistical Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic, ; Coordinator of the "poverty line" component of the WB project "Network of Social Protection," ; UNDP project manager, "Creating a system of measurement of public opinion in Kyrgyzstan," Since 1999, Dr. Ilibezova has served as Director of the analytical research center "El-Pikir," which has conducted more than 500 projects in various sectors, including in the field of CSEC. Dr. Ilibezova serves as the National Coordinator of ECPAT International in Kyrgyzstan, where she works with a network of 10 NGOs. She also participated in the writing of an alternative report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in AMIE JOBE Regional Representative for Africa, EICYAC Amie Jobe is a Youth Motivator and child rights activist from Gambia. She volunteers in a variety of capacities for the Gambia Red Cross Society and won the Best Female Volunteer Award for the Kanifing municipal branch in She also serves as Finance Officer and Youth Coordinator at the Center for Children and Young People and is the female representative on the Serekunda West Youth Committee. Amie has been involved with training YPP peer supporters, moderating and conducting radio programmes on issues related to CSEC and assisting with youth-led micro projects. THERESA KATEMPA KABEKA-MWANSA Executive Director, Children in Need Network (CHIN) Ms. Theresa Katempa Kabeka is the Executive Director for Children in Need Network (CHIN). Before being appointed as Executive Director, she worked as Research and Advocacy Project Officer, then moved on to Capacity Building Officer where she also served as the child protection focal point for the organisation. Ms. Kabeka previously worked for the Zambia Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ZASPCAN), advocating against sexual abuse of children and also working at the One-stop Center for child victims of sexual abuse. Before that, Ms. Kabeka worked with the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) based in a refugee camp in Western Zambia, bordering with Angola where she managed community services department which included awareness raising and capacity building for both refugee and host communities. The focus of her work was mainly with young people. She also worked for Men Make a Difference (MENDIF) an organisation promoting male involvement in combating HIV/AIDS in the country. Ms. Kabeka has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Development Studies from the University of Zambia and a Master s degree in Project Management.

98 96 THOMAS KAUFFMAN Executive Director, ECPAT Luxembourg Thomas Kauffmann has 10 years of experience in local and international development and hold a Ph.D. in the Anthropology of Development from the University of Oxford, UK, as well as a bachelor s in Economics. His doctoral research focused on the relationship between Western NGOs and the Tibetan refugees in India. Thomas has worked for ECPAT Luxembourg since 2009 and currently holds the position of Executive Director. As such, he is responsible for the overall management of the organisation as well as for strategy implementation. Additionally, he is directly responsible for overseeing the development, funding and monitoring of ECPAT Luxembourg s projects in South Asia. OLGA KOLPAKOVA Head of Prevention Programmes, Stellit Ms. Kolpakova has been working at the regional NGO Stellit since 2002, where she currently heads Prevention Programmes. Ms. Kolpakova has been involved in the ECPAT network since Since joining, she has implemented approximately 25 projects aimed at combating the commercial sexual exploitation of children, including research, awareness raising campaigns, prevention programmes, development of methodological materials for stakeholders, and stakeholder trainings. SOKOEUN KONG National Coordinator, ECPAT Cambodia Kong Sokoeun works at End Children Prostitution, Abuse and Trafficking Cambodia (ECPAT Cambodia) as National Coordinator. He holds a Bachelor s degree in Psychology from the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), a Teaching Certificate for higher education in Educational Science English Language from the National Institute of Education (NIE) and is continuing a Master s degree in Development Studies at the University of Cambodia (UC). He has 10 years experience in both INGO and NGOs in the field of Human Trafficking, Project Management, Community Development and Social Work. Mr. Kong also has experience working with intercultural and socio-economic development in the Mekong sub-region and ASEAN countries, in addition to experience in qualitative and quantitative research and evaluation in several development areas. DR. OSSEI KOUAKOU Executive Director, SOS Violences Sexuelles Dr. Ossei Kouakou is a psychologist, lecturer and Executive Secretary of the NGO SOS Sexual Violence. As a psychologist, he is in charge of the psychological care of victims of sexual violence and coordinating the activities of his organisation, SOS. Dr. Kouakou also works as a consultant-trainer on issues of child protection and sexual violence. He has facilitated several training courses for national actors on behalf of national and international NGOs. At the university level, apart from his trainings on cognitive psychology, Dr. Kouakou conducts research on the effects of alcoholism on human behaviour. He has published a significant number of articles in several scientific journals. This is Dr. Kouakou s third ECPAT International Assembly. (He previously attended IAs in Brazil and Paris.)

99 GABRIELA KÜHN Programme Coordinator, Nobody s Children Foundation Gabriela Kühn is the Programme Coordinator at Nobody s Children Foundation In her role at FDN, Gabriela is in charge of the programme against commercial exploitation of children, including The Code of Conduct (Local Code Representative) and the Polish ECPAT Coalition against commercial exploitation of children. She is responsible for overall programme management, cooperation with the ministries, police, border guards and business partners. Gabriela also manages the grant distribution programme Safe Childhood for Polish NGOs. Gabriela holds a European Master s Degree in Human Rights and Democratization, a Master of Arts in Foreign Languages and a post-graduate degree in International Cooperation and Development. 97 ACHYUT KUMAR Communications Manager, Maiti Nepal Born in 1981 and educated in Tribhuvan University, Achyut Kumar Nepal is a lawyer by training. He has been involved with Maiti Nepal for the past seven years in the capacity of Communications Manager. Maiti Nepal implemented the Youth Partnership project in the past. Mr. Nepal is quite familiar and experienced in terms of the essence, goals, and projects of ECPAT at the regional and international level. Mr. Nepal is the key coordinator of documentation, communication, and providing the ECPAT Secretariat with information concerning the anti-csec initiatives of Maiti Nepal. Mr. Nepal has represented Maiti Nepal in various meetings/seminars organized by ECPAT, including participating in the recent ECPAT South Asia Regional consultation organized in Kathmandu. ANNE LE BOURSICOT Finance Administrator, ECPAT France and Acting for Life Since November 2009, Anne Le Boursicot has provided administrative and financial support to ACTING FOR LIFE. In order to support projects that fight against the sexual exploitation of children in Brazil, Guinea Bissau and North Africa, she is currently working on projects developed by ECPAT France in Madagascar, particularly the "Do not look away! Promotion and protection of children's rights against sex tourism and prostitution" project. Previously, Anne worked for 6 years in Latin America (Peru, Honduras, El Salvador) as Project Manager of CODESPA Spanish Foundation, administrator of ATLAS - Handicap International, and as the Director of Social Samu Peru fighting against domestic violence in the Lima outskirts through preventive actions and emergency reception center HYEONSOOK LEE Co-Director, Tacteen Naeil Hyunsuk Lee graduated from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Department of Mass Communication and holds a Masters of Journalism and Mass Communication from Yonsei University. She has been a co-director of ECPAT Korea since 2008 and a member of the evaluation board of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (she was a director of TACTEEN Naeil between May 2008 and January 2014). From 2000 to 2014, she was: member of the Policy Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family; director of Korea Youth Sexuality Culture Center; member of Korea Communications Standards Commission; team leader at Youth Sexual Cultural Center of the Government Youth Commission (GYC); member of Korea Media Rating Board; and a member of Holding Power of KBS. She entered the field of children and youth activism in 1995 as a journalist of Naeil Shinmoon.

100 98 LI-FENG LEE Secretary General, ECPAT Taiwan Li-Feng Lee has been the Secretary General of ECPAT Taiwan since 1996 and has a long history of advocating for sexually exploited children and women. She has taken part in the law-making process of important legislation and supports a wide range of programme areas including child online safety, youth participation, reintegration of CSEC victims and trafficking survivors. She is also the member of various governmental advisory committees. THIBAUT LEJEUNE Finance Advisor, ECPAT France Thibaut Lejeune recently returned to France to serve as Finance Advisor with ECPAT France after 9 years abroad (Mexico, Chile, Slovenia and Belgium). In Mexico, Mr. Lejeune completed an internship at UNESCO. In Chile, he served as Project Coordinator for Association des Familles Adoptives d Enfants Nés au Chili and CEPAS (Centro de Educación y Promoción de Acción Solidaria). He also spent time as a French instructor in Ljubljana. Mr. Lejeune has experience in Belgium working with the European Commission, as well as the Free University of Brussels (ULB) as a microfinance Project Coordinator. For the last 4 years, he was responsible for the Cooperation and Development department of Conexx-Europe, an NGO affiliated with the Free University of Brussels (ULB). MARIE-LAURE LEMINEUR Head of Programme, Combating Sexual Exploitation of Children Online, ECPAT International Ms. Lemineur has two decades of experience in the field of human rights education, the protection of children from abuse and exploitation, as well as in ICT for development. She has authored and co-authored several publications on online child pornography and human rights education. A law graduate from the University of Jean Moulin, Lyon, France, Ms. Lemineur earned a master s of international human rights law from the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. She has worked as a consultant or in management positions for the Council of Europe Youth Centre Budapest, UNICEF Costa Rica, the International Telecommunication Union and several NGOs. Currently, Ms. Lemineur serves as a member of the Advisory Council of Public Interest Registry (PIR), an ICANN-accredited registry in charge of operating the.org and.ngo domains. She recently also served as the elected Chair of NPOC, an ICANN constituency representing the interests of its NGO members within the Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO). DEEPA LIMBU SUBBA Nepal Country Representative, ECPAT Luxembourg Deepa Limbu Subba has been involved in the development field since 1993, working on community development programmes in South and South-East Asia on issues related to education, health, women and children. Ms. Limbu Subba has conducted socio-anthropological research in Laos and Nepal during her academic and professional tenures. She started working for ECPAT in 2010 as the Country Representative of ECPAT Luxembourg in Nepal, where her responsibility involves the overall management of programmes in this country. ECPAT Luxembourg Nepal works with children who are vulnerable to sexual abuse and exploitation, its interventions focus on prevention through sensitization and schooling; on rescue, recovery and reintegration of children; and on building the capacities of national partners. Ms. Limbu Subba holds Master s Degrees in International Cooperation and Development and in Socio-Ethnology from the Universities of Montpellier I and III, France respectively.

101 BRIGITTE LOUCHEZ Network Coordinator, ECPAT Brazil Brigitte Louchez was born in 1961 in Northern France. She started her university studies in 1988 at the Faculty of Paris where, in 1986, she got a PhD in Science and Biology Pharmacy with honors. In 1988, she went to live in Lyon where she knew the French Latin American Association France created by Chileans. In 1990, she met the Barraca da Amizade's founder. In 1992, she had the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team in Fortaleza for a year during the cholera epidemic. She took her knowledge from this experience and returned back to Fortaleza in 1993 to help organize the Barraca da Amizade's project and promote the establishment of the nonprofit association. She assumed the coordination of the NGO in 1995 and has been living in Brazil since then 99 DARLENE LYNCH Legal Consultant, ECPAT International Darlene is a U.S.-trained attorney, who has been engaged in law and policy work on behalf of child victims of commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking since She now serves as a Geneva-based legal consultant for ECPAT International, participating in its Access to Justice legal project. Before joining ECPAT, Darlene worked at the nationally-recognized Barton Child Law and Policy Center in Atlanta, Georgia, where she authored multiple CSEC publications, served on the Governor's CSEC Task Force, and advocated for legislative reform. She developed Georgia's first CSEC training programme for prosecutors and delivered it statewide. Previously, Darlene taught law at Harvard, Boston University and Emory law schools, specializing in legal research, writing and advocacy, and practiced as a civil litigator and special assistant prosecutor in Massachusetts. She holds a J.D. with honors from The University of Chicago Law School; and a B.A. with honors from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. RYAN MAHAN Head of Information, Media and Online Campaigns, ECPAT UK Ryan Mahan is Head of Information, Media and Online Campaigns at ECPAT UK. He manages ECPAT UK s public facing work, including supporting campaigns on child trafficking and transnational child exploitation. Ryan has worked as a campaigner for human rights, economic justice and race equality for more than six years. Prior to joining ECPAT UK, Ryan campaigned for better mental health provision for Tamil refugees from war-torn Sri Lanka and worked with recent Principal Advisor to the Children s Commissioner on Race on the Agenda s Female Voice in Violence project to prevent sexual violence and support gang-associated girls and young women. He has an MSc in political science and economics from the London School of Economics. MOHAMMED MAHURUF Chairman and CEO, ECPAT Sri Lanka/PEaCE Mohammed Mahuruf, Chairman and CEO of ECPAT Sri Lanka / PEaCE (Protecting Environment and Children Everywhere), is one of the original founders of ECPAT (End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism). Until 2011 he worked as the Regional Network Consultant for Cordaid (Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development). He initiated the Peacebuilding and Development Institute in Sri Lanka and is the cofounder of People s Space space for people and people s organisations. He represented Sri Lanka in the People s SAARC Steering Committee since People s SAARC is South Asia s largest People s Movement working towards a People s Union of South Asia. Mahuruf entered the NGO sector in 1980 through Terre des Hommes (Switzerland) for its child based family rehabilitation project. In 1989, he joined the SCF s training team. He

102 100 was Programme Officer at Helvetas (Switzerland), Principal Consultant for Novib (Netherlands) and Freelance Consultant for GTZ (German Technical Cooperation). His interest and efforts remain in advocacy for securing space for excluded groups, based on their identity, and defending the human rights of the vulnerable. MARIAM MASKHULIA Research Coordinator, The Public Health Foundation of Georgia Mariam Maskhulia is a research project coordinator from the Public Health Foundation of Georgia for the Defence for Children - ECPAT Netherlands s research on commercial sexual exploitation of children. Mariam holds Master s degree in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights. Ms. Maskhulia s experience and interests are focused around children s rights, social and economic development of marginalized and disempowered people with an emphasis on poverty, right to development, human rights-based approach, programme and project development and coordination. Mariam coordinated a feedback process in the East Europe and CIS regions for General Comment 13. Mariam also coordinated the project on the establishment of rehabilitative schemes for juvenile offenders. She is co-author of the alternative reports for the UNCAT (2006) and UNCRC (2007) and author of the MA thesis on Poverty, Development and International Assistance and Co-operation; Examination of Article 2(1) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. DAVID MATAS Regional Representative for North America, ECPAT International Board of Trustees David Matas is a board member and legal counsel for Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada. He moderated ECPAT international Assemblies in Bangkok in 2002 and in Rio de Janeiro in 2005 and He was awarded the Order of Canada in December 2008 and has received several awards including the 2010 International Society for Human Rights Swiss Section Human Rights Prize and a Nobel Peace Prize nomination in David works as lawyer specializing in refugee, immigration and human rights law. MECHTILD MAURER Executive Director, ECPAT Germany Mechtild Maurer has been the Executive Director of ECPAT Germany for more than ten years. Before working with ECPAT, Ms. Maurer worked as journalist and editor in the field of development cooperation and tourism and as project manager for a developing world organisation. She is a member of several national commissions concerning child protection and sexual exploitation of children. As an expert in combating child trafficking, child pornography and child sex tourism, she is the spokesperson of the German monitoring group of child protection and international cooperation of the national and the federal states in Germany. Additionally, she often leads trainings on the prev ention of sexual exploitation of children and trafficking of children for multi-stakeholder groups (police, social worker, social welfare) as well as for the private sector. EUGENIA MAXIM Regional Representative for Eastern Europe and CIS, EICYAC Eugenia Maxim was born on December 17, 1992 in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. She holds a degree in Psychology from Moldova State University, and is now studying for a Master s degree in Work and Organisational Psychology. Eugenia s native language is Romanian, but she also speaks Russian, English and Spanish fluently, along with dictionary French. Eugenia served as the Youth Coordinator for the YPP project in Moldova from She has served as the Youth Representative for Eastern

103 Europe and CIS region in CYAC since In 2014, she participated in the Council of Europe conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Growing with children s rights as an expert in fighting against CSEC. In June, 2014, she was invited to share her experiences with the YPP project at the Council of Europe assembly in Strasbourg, France as an expert in fighting against CSEC. 101 CATHERINE MBENGUE Regional Coordinator for Africa, ECPAT International Ms. Mbengue has vast experience fighting for children s rights in Africa and around the world. Originally from Cameroon, Ms. Mbengue recently retired in 2011 after a long and fruitful career with UNICEF. Ms. Mbengue has worked and lived in Burundi, Gabon, Malawi, Ghana, Congo, New York and Afghanistan. She is fluent in both French and English. Ms. Mbengue joined ECPAT as the Regional Coordinator for Africa in May, 2014, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. BERNADETTE MCMENAMIN Regional Representative for the Pacific, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Bernadette McMenamin is a highly regarded advocate against the sexual abuse of children on a national and global scale. A founding member of ECPAT International in Thailand in 1992, Bernadette founded Child Wise (ECPAT Australia) in She has a Master of International Social Work and has won numerous awards in recognition of her contribution to the protection of children from sexual abuse. These include an Order of Australia (AO) in 2004 and Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Social Entrepreneur category for the Southern Region of Australia in She was also a finalist for Australian of the Year in 2004 and for the Telstra Business Women s Award in LUIS MÉNDEZ JIMÉNEZ Programme Coordinator, MAIS Luis Méndez Jiménez is a psychologist, specializing in Human Rights, Management and Evaluation of Social Programmes with a community participatory approach from the Dominican Republic. Mr. Méndez has served as the Programme Coordinator of MAIS since its foundation in He was responsible for conducting research on CSEC ahead of the Dominican Republic s participation in the First World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and has participated in seven large ECPAT International summits since then. In addition, Mr. Méndez has also served as a counselor for middle schools and colleges in the Dominican Republic. He has been a coordinator for programmes on the Prevention of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism, and has worked with local organisations and businesses in implementing The Code in the Dominican Republic, as part of a MAIS. ZINGUI MESSOMO Africa Regional Representative, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Zingui Messomo has over 24 years of experience working for NGOs and providing support to vulnerable populations. Mr. Messomo is the founder and Director of ASSEJA. In 2007 he created Youth Councils in order to educate and train youth counsellors on CSEC. He has taken an active role in conferences and workshops all over Africa. He is publishing new bulletin for and with youths, and also submitting journal articles for the ECPAT International e-bulletin. Mr. Messomo has organized seminars and workshops on the fight against child trafficking, how to protect children from CSEC and skills and strategies to combat CSEC in Cameroon. Mr. Messomo has organized research on CSEC in Cameroon, seminars and workshops on the fight against child trafficking, how to protect children from CSEC and skills and strategies to combat CSEC in Cameroon.

104 102 ERWIN MOM Deputy Executive Director for Operations, ECPAT International Erwin joined the ECPAT Secretariat in Bangkok in September Before joining ECPAT, Erwin held various positions in international project and programme administration at multiple NGOS, most notably as Administrative Coordinator at Doctors of the World Myanmar and Colombia, and as Financial Manager of International Projects for the Netherlands Immigration Service. Erwin is from the Netherlands and holds a degree in Auditing. He is fluent in Dutch, English, Spanish, and German. ANTJE MONSHAUSEN Head of Tourism Watch, Bread for the World Antje Monshausen is policy officer on tourism and development and head of Tourism Watch at Bread for the World, Germany. She has been with the Development Service of the Protestant Churches of Germany (now Bread for the World) since She started as an assistant in the policy department and was later a desk manager for the financial support of international organisations until Antje Monshausen holds a university diploma in Geography with Political Science, Public Health and Latin America Studies minors. During her studies, she gained valuable experience with national and international non-governmental organisations in Guatemala and Bolivia. Tourism Watch and Bread for the World are founding members of ECPAT Germany. Antje Monshausen is a board member of ECPAT Germany. At the moment, there is cooperation between ECPAT and Tourism Watch concerning Voluntourism and its consequences on child protection. Antje Monshausen is the official delegate from the ECPAT Germany board. VALENTYNA MUDRIK Youth Representative, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Valentyna Mudrik has been a youth member of All-Ukrainian Network against CSEC since She is also a member of the National Trainers Network, organizing and conducting training seminars on issues related to CSEC, human trafficking and child rights violations. Valentyna is a Youth Motivator for the Youth Partnership Project against CSEC and has conducted almost 90 educational events for children and youth on the issue of CSEC. She has also implemented ten micro projects in order to raise awareness of CSEC. She is currently a legal counselor at the International Women s Rights Center "La Strada-Ukraine. DR. TUFAIL MUHAMMAD Chairman, Pakistan Pediatric Association Dr. Tufail Muhammad (MD, MCPS, DCH. DCPath) is the Chairman of Child Rights & Abuse Committee, Pakistan Pediatric Association. He has postgraduate qualifications and training in Pediatrics, Clinical pathology, public health and Reproductive health. Dr. Tufail Muhammad has more than 22 years experience in the field of Child Abuse and Neglect (CAN) and Child protection. He has more than 30 research papers to his credit and has presented more than 60 papers at international conferences in several countries around the world. Dr.Tufail has also conducted and published a number of community based research studies in collaboration with UNICEF, Save the Children Sweden, WHO, ILO and ECPAT International. He has also co-authored a book (Your amazing baby) on the growth and development of Pakistani infants (published by Save the Children UK). He has also authored a number of booklets on various aspects of CAN and child labor. Dr.Tufail has twice received the Meritorious Services Award from the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan.

105 JUSTA MWAITUKA Executive Director, KIWOHEDE Justa Mwaituka is the Executive Director of Kiota Women Health and Development Organisation (KIWOHEDE), where she participates in: administration; research; fundraising; monitoring and evaluation and documentation of juvenile justice, child trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation of children, and hazardous child domestic work; prevention of sexual abuse, violence, and exploitation including prevention of teen pregnancies and child marriage; prevention of HIV/AIDs among youth and children; care for orphans; development of community working structures; maintaining shelters; policy lobbying and advocacy; and networking nationally and internationally. Ms. Mwaituka has extensive experience in nursing and midwifery, community and primary health care services, health education, child rights promotion and prevention of child sexual abuse, trafficking and CSEC. She has managed projects for ECPAT East Africa, supported by OAK Foundation. She was the first woman to receive the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drum Major award in Tanzania in 2004 for her courageous work on ant-trafficking and the prevention of CSEC and hazardous domestic work. She currently a board member of Tanzania Child Rights Forum Board and Children s Agenda, and the chairperson of Tanzania End Child Marriage. 103 CRISTINA NAVARRO Director of Development, ECPAT Nicaragua Cristina Navarro Bermudez has served as the Director of Development of Casa Alianza Nicaragua (Alliance House Nicaragua) since She is reponsible for the organisation s project management, fundraising efforts both in Nicaragua and abroad, communication strategy and coordination of the Impact Plan. Ms. Navarro holds a Master s degree in Human Resources Management and a Bachelor s degree in Law with a special focus in Economic Law. She has conducted research in Human Rights and Trafficking, Child Pornography, and Gender Violence. She has taken part in training workshops on Women Leadership and Prevention of Human Trafficking organized by the U.S. Department of State in Chicago (2011) and Mexico (2013). She has closely cooperated with the ECPAT, Nicaragua group since 2012 by providing information on any initiatives related to CSEC implemented in the country. NORMA NEGRETE Director of Development, ECPAT Mexico Norma Elena Negrete Aguayo holds a Bachelor s degree from the Metropolitan Autonomous University and a postgraduate diploma in Pshychoanalitic Therapy from the Iberoamerican University. She is President of Spaces for Comprehensive Development of Children and National Coordinator of ECPAT Mexico. Ms. Negrete serves as an associate lecturer at the National Institute of Criminal Science and as a trainer in a number of activities as part of the Programme against Trafficking of Persons by the National Commission of Human Rights. She has been involved in several field studies and research papers in Mexico on the prevention of the commercial sexual exploitation of children. In 2010, Ms. Negrete coordinated the Alternative Report to the Initial Report submitted by Mexico to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. She was also head of the NGO delegation that served as observers for the Mexican government s presentation of the Initial Report. Ms. Negrete has presented papers in conferences, workshops, and national and international congresses about the prevention of and fight against the sexual exploitation of children.

106 104 OSCAR NETZLER Board member, Samoa Victim Support Group Oscar Netzler joined Samoa Victim Support in 2009 and has been responsible for fundraising. In 2012, he sat on the Education Foundation Board, which is responsible for providing education for abused children housed in the shelter and was also opened to street kids. In January 2014, he was invited to sit on the SVSG Board and the Fundraising sub-committee. DARLENE NEWTON Board member, Beyond Borders Darlene Newton has served as a Board member for Beyond Borders/Au delà des frontiers since She has also served as Co-Chair and event coordinator for the 2014 Beyond Borders Media Awards, attended by high-level government officials and national media representation. Ms. Newton sought and gained approval of tour operator fundraising projects benefiting Beyond Borders on an annual basis and ongoing support of airlines, legal firms and local businesses in sponsorship. She also works with The Code as their LCR as the Beyond Borders designated Board member. Ms. Newton is the owner and manager of Retail Travel Agency and a multi-branch manager for Thomas Cook, Marlin Travel and the Transat Travel Group. FIDÈLE JEANNETTE NGONO NKE ZOULA Member of Management Council, ASSEJA Fidèle Jeannette Ngono has been working with vulnerable children and youths the last ten years with the NGO ASSEJA. She is the Regional Delegate of ASSEJA in the northern part of Cameroon. Mrs Ngono has a rich experience base in the rehabilitation and prevention of child trafficking, sexual exploitation of children, child marriage and child labor. She has attended different seminars and conferences on CSEC in Africa. THEO NOTEN Programme Manager, ECPAT Netherlands Theo Noten has managed ECPAT Netherlands since He is also actively involved in the Dutch NGO Coalition on Children s Rights and was responsible for the 2008 and 2014 NGO Report on the Optional Protocol to the CRC on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography. Additionally, Mr. Noten has leadership or board member positions with: the International NGO Council on Violence Against Children; Meldpunt Kinderporno, the Dutch Hotline for online child pornography (member of INHOPE: International Association of Internet Hotlines); the Code; the Expert Coordination Team of the OSCE Alliance against Trafficking in Human Beings; ECPAT International Board of Trustees and chair of the credentials committee ( ); and others. Mr. Noten has also coordinated and contributed to multiple international publications including: and Joint East West Research on Trafficking in Minors for Sexual Purposes in Europe; 2006 Addendum on Children to the Dutch National Action Plan against Trafficking in Human Beings; and the Ten Years Anniversary of the Stockholm Agenda for Action, among many others.

107 BISI OLATERU-OLAGBEGI Executive Director, Women s Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON) Bisi Olateru-Olagbegi is a lawyer, activist, researcher, author, international gender consultant and human trafficking expert. She holds an LL.B law Degree (1975), was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1976, is a notary public and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK). Bisi is the Executive Director of Women s Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON), an NGO committed to the promotion of women and children s rights with United Nations special consultative status. WOCON is an Affiliate of ECPAT International. Bisi has conducted several studies on human trafficking, CSEC and women and children s rights issues commissioned by UNESCO, International Labour Organisation (ILO) and International Office for Migration (IOM). As a public speaker, Bisi has made many presentations on topical issues at international and national fora and published many books, particularly on women and children s rights. She is a contributor to the ECPAT Agenda for Action country publications on Nigeria. As a grassroots campaigner, Bisi is at the forefront of the campaign against CSEC in Nigeria. 105 ANKO ORDOÑEZ Communications Officer, ECPAT France Since 2012, Anko Ordoñez has overseen communications at ECPAT France. Throughout his career, he has worked as a journalist in Latin America (Honduras, El Salvador and Uruguay), in Eastern Europe (Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Romania), and in the Republic of Congo. For over two years, he has been implementing the European Don t look away! awareness campaign and its associated projects in Madagascar. Since 2014, he has also been responsible for training Tourism and Hospitality students in France in the fight against the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism. DANIELA ORTH Office Manager, ECPAT Germany Daniela Orth has been the Office Manager of ECPAT Germany since December She holds a university diploma in Social Anthropology and Archaeology. She has ten years of work experience as a flight attendant at Swiss International Airlines and worked for three years as an office assistant for the company Solarfood in Freiburg, Germany. Daniela Orth will support the ECPAT International team at the Assembly with organisational and administrative tasks. DAVID OULD Treasurer, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Retired in June 2006 as Director of Anti-Slavery International, for which he worked from 1991 as fundraiser, head of finance, campaigner and Deputy Director. He has been closely involved with UK and international campaigning on issues of the commercial sexual exploitation of children and the use of bonded child labour in the hand knotted carpet industries of South Asia. At Anti-Slavery International he helped to establish the NGOs ECPAT UK and GoodWeave UK to work on these issues and remains on the boards of both organisations. He was a member of the Board of the Ethical Trading Initiative and Chair of its NGO Caucus. Currently Treasurer of Kalayaan, a UK based NGO working in support of migrant domestic workers, Chair of GoodWeave UK and Treasurer of ECPAT UK and of ECPAT International. Prior to joining Anti-Slavery International he held various jobs with the BP Group.

108 106 DIEGO PAILOS Coordinator, Gurises Unidos Diego Pailos holds a Bachelor s degree in Social Work from Uruguay and studied postgraduate courses at the University of Argentina and Sweden. Since 2005, Mr. Pailos has worked with United Boys (Gurises Unidos), managing projects aimed at protecting vulnerable children and adolescents. These programmes involve research as well as providing care for effected children, their families and communities. From 2009 to 2011, he was Coordinator of Programmes focusing on homeless children. Since 2012, he has been Coordinator of Vocational Training at United Boys, where he has managed a number of projects for children with learning disabilities, gaining just access to work, teenage mothers and CSEC. Mr. Pailos provides training workshops to private and public institutions on CSEC in Uruguay. He authored the report Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents in Uruguay: Dimension, Characteristics and Proposal for Intervention. Over the last year, he has served as the representative for United Boys to ECPAT International. BHARTI PATEL CEO, ECPAT UK Bharti Patel is CEO of ECPAT UK. Bharti has more than fifteen years experience working to address human rights abuses around the world, leading high-profile research, campaigning and advocacy organisations in the UK and India. Bharti s passion to challenge the root causes of child exploitation and abuse underpins her leadership role with ECPAT UK, where she has overseen important changes to law and policy in the area of child protection and trafficking prevention. In the UK, Bharti s prior achievements include successfully lobbying for Britain s first-ever national minimum wage legislation and helping secure basic employment rights for low-paid and part-time workers. In India, Bharti worked on sustainable development programmes addressing the strengthening of food, water and livelihood security for vulnerable communities. An accomplished speaker and writer, Bharti has featured widely in the British print and broadcast media, and is regularly quoted in articles on poverty, inequality, child trafficking and child protection. CAROLINE PERSSON Legal Advisor, ECPAT Sweden Caroline Persson has worked as a lawyer at ECPAT Sweden since September She is primarily responsible for the anti-trafficking work and monitoring implementation of legislation concerning commercial sexual exploitation of children and related areas. As a part of the programme unit at ECPAT Sweden she is also working with advocacy, policy development and legal reform. Caroline holds a Master of Laws degree from Lund University with a specialization in International Law and Human Rights. Before joining ECPAT Sweden she worked as Assistant Attaché at the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations in New York, assisting the Swedish delegate to the Third Committee of the General Assembly. The Third Committee handles issues regarding human rights and social and humanitarian affairs, including the rights of the child and the advancement of women. Prior to this, she worked as a law clerk at the Migration Court of Appeal in Stockholm, the final instance for the reconsideration in full of aliens and nationality cases.

109 ANDERS PETTERSSON Secretary General, ECPAT Sweden Anders L. Pettersson has been the Executive Director of ECPAT Sweden since October Prior to ECPAT, he worked as an independent management consultant for the UN and the private sector. Between 2003 and 2013, he worked with UNICEF in different capacities; as the Executive Officer of the UNICEF National Committees Standing Group working on strategic planning and policy and as head of an emergency team at New York HQ supporting UNICEF Field Offices in humanitarian crises. Before joining UNICEF, Mr. Pettersson worked for four years with the Swedish international development cooperation agency (Sida), where he coordinated Swedish participation in international peace supporting missions and EU civilian crises management. Mr. Pettersson served as a UN peacekeeper with Swedish contingents of UNIFIL (Lebanon), UNPROFOR (Croatia and Bosnia) and NATO-IFOR (Bosnia), early to mid-1990s. Mr. Pettersson did his undergraduate studies at University of Uppsala and did his Masters Studies in Political Science and International Relations at Stockholm University, where he also participated in postgraduate research on the EU, commissioned by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. 107 MARGARITA PRIAKHINA Chairperson, Children not for Abuse Margarita Priakhina graduated from the Belarusian State University with a degree in History in From 1996 to 2004, she worked with multiple state organisations as an instructor in socio-educational services dealing with issues related to the prevention of child abuse. In 1996, Ms. Priakhina established the City Public Association for the Prevention of Violence against Children, called "Children - not for Abuse" and has served as the director of the organisation since August, "Children - not for Abuse" became an affiliate member of ECPAT in December, Ms. Priakhina has guided the implementation of 22 projects and authored seven brochures and various information materials on the prevention of child abuse. She also has many publications in national journals on commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and child abuse. In recent years, Ms. Priakhina has developed manuals for training programmes for children and professionals on the prevention of violence in cyberspace. MÓNICA PUELLO Executive Director, Tejiendo Sonrisas Mónica Patricia Puello Martínez holds a Bachelor s degree in Psychology, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Development Cooperation from University of Pavia/ san Buenaventura. Ms. Puello is the Founder and Executive Director of Asociación Tejiendo Sonrisas (Sewing Smiles Association). She has over 14 years of relevant experience working with NGOs: she has undertaken studies in Developing Multiple Intelligences in Young Learners and in Human Resources; worked as a trainer for a programme on Sexual Education by the Colombian Ministry of Education; and participated in training workshops on CSEC for the National Programme in Domestic and Sexual Violence, organized by Peru s Women s Ministry, Health Providers from Peru s Public Health Ministry and Emergency Centers for Women in South Lima, among other organisations. Currently, Capital Humano y Social Alternativo (Alternative Social and Human Capital), REDES de Huancayo (NETS of Huancayo) and Sewing Smiles Association are ECPAT Network members in Perú. Among other initiatives, the group has produced a monitoring report on CSEC in Perú, and studied the risks faced by children with the use of information technologies.

110 108 OPHÉLIE RIGAULT Communications Officer, ECPAT France Ophélie Rigault joined ECPAT France in January 2013 as a volunteer in the Communications Department. She is now responsible for communications and for the ECPAT France projects to fight the commercial sexual exploitation of children in Rwanda, Morocco, and Lebanon. She holds a Master's degree in International Relations: during her studies she focused her dissertation on the issue of sexual violence perpetuated against girls and women during the Rwandan genocide. Ms. Rigault also completed an internship at UN Women in Rwanda, where she ran a regional project for the economic empowerment of women in informal cross-border trade. LÍDIA RODRIGUES Barraca da Amizade Representative, ECPAT Brazil Lídia Rodrigues is a child rights activist representing Barraca da Amizade from the ECPAT Brazil network. She has been very active in the fight against sexual violence against children since 2004 and has been a part of ECPAT Brazil since 2005, actively working on child and youth participation. Ms. Rodrigues was the Latin American representative of EICYAC from 2008 to At Barraca da Amizade, she has worked with many child and adolescent victims of sexual exploitation. She is currently coordinating the ANA campaign on adolescent self-protection conducted by the ECPAT Brazil network and the National Committee. Ms. Rodrigues is also an activist for Brazilian Women s Rights, AMB and LGBTQ rights. DR. MALLE ROOMELDI Board member, Tartu Child Support Centre Dr. Malle Roomeldi graduated from Tartu State University in clinical psychology (Msc) as an accredited clinical psychologist, clinical child psychologist, clinical sexologist, and gestalt-psychotherapist. Since 1990, Dr. Roomeldi has worked in the Tartu University laboratory of applied psychology as a researcher, with additional responsibilities as a psychotherapist in Children's Outpatient Clinic of Tartu University since 1990, and with the NGO Tartu Child Support Centre for Abused Children as a psychotherapist in (Dr. Roomeldi is one of the founders of the organisation). In 1997, Dr. Roomeldi joined ECPAT as a representative of Tartu Child Support Centre, and has since then coordinated several international ECPAT projects in Estonia. PURNA ROYCHOWDHURY Research and Training Officer, SANLAAP Purna Roy Chowdhury has a post graduate in Human Rights and Development Research Methodology from Calcutta University. She has been working as a Development Professional for the past seven years. Her experience includes project management, development of training manuals and facilitation. As a reintegration officer in Sanlaap s shelter home earlier in her tenure, Purna worked closely with trafficked survivors. Her sensitivity towards the vulnerable, excellent communication skills and non-threatening disposition made her a trustworthy confidante of many of the residents, which resulted in undertaking several participatory research and analytical documentation projects with the survivors. Her exceptional writing skills coupled with intricate understanding of the issue of trafficking found vent as an author in the publication, Bare Minimum-Minimum Standard of Care and Protection of Victims/Survivors of Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation supported and endorsed by UNIFEM (now UNWOMEN South Asia Regional Office). This apart, Purna has been associated with organisations like STOP, Apne Aap Women Worldwide and Bachpan Bachao Andolan, UN Solution Exchange, and Pravah.

111 DOROTHY ROZGA Executive Director, ECPAT International Dorothy Rozga is the Executive Director of ECPAT International. Prior to joining ECPAT in April 2013, Dorothy served as the interim Executive Director of the African Child Policy Forum based in Ethiopia. Between 1981 and 2012, Dorothy served UNICEF in a range of capacities; UNICEF s Representative to Tanzania, ; UNICEF s Representative to Ghana ; Deputy Regional Director of UNICEF s Regional Office for East and Southern Africa in Kenya ; Sr. Programme Officer responsible at a global level for the incorporation of a Human Rights Based Approach to UNICEF s Programmeming ; head of UNICEF s Offices in Calcutta, India and Belize and Dorothy also served UNICEF in various capacities in Central America, including in Guatemala and Honduras. Prior to joining UNICEF, Dorothy served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica and Belize. 109 DR. MAIA RUSAKOVA Regional Representative for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Dr. Rusakova s work in the sphere of combating CSEC started in her student years when she took part in research on the CSEC situation in North-West Russia. Together with her colleagues, Dr. Rusakova founded the RNGO Stellit, with which she has initiated and coordinated more than 40 projects in the sphere of combating CSEC and child abuse. Among them there were: CSEC situation research, preventive programmes, educational seminars for officials and specialists working with children as well as for the personnel of hotels and embassies, development of informational and methodological materials for specialists, projects aimed at rehabilitation and reintegration of children - victims of CSEC, campaigns aimed at changing public opinion on the issue, development of social partnership in the sphere of counteraction against CSEC. Dr. Rusakova was also one of the founders of the Russian Alliance against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in 2004, which later became an ECPAT Affiliate group in Russia (2005). Dr. Rusakova has ca. 10 publications on the issue, both national and international. EMILY RUSKIN Executive Officer, ECPAT International Emily first became interested in fighting CSEC while serving in the US Peace Corps in Thailand working with students at-risk of trafficking. Previous to joining ECPAT, Emily was the Programme/Project Coordinator for the University of Minnesota s China Center. While in Minnesota, she was an active volunteer with and advocate for the large refugee populations in Minnesota. Emily holds a BS in International Relations with Honors from Seton Hall University and is fluent in Thai and Mandarin Chinese. DR. ANA MARÍA SAINERO Vice-Chair, FAPMI-ECPAT Spain Dr. Sainero is a doctor of Psychology with post-graduate experience in Children and Protective Care. In addition to being a member of the Federation of Association for the Prevention of Child Mistreatment (FAPMI-ECPAT Spain), Dr. Sainero is a psychologist and researcher at The Asturian Association for the Attention and Care for Childhood, where she implements programmes and activities for the prevention of child sexual abuse and violence. Dr. Sainero is also initiating the implementation of initiatives for the prevention of child tourism and sexual exploitation in the Asturias Autonomous Community.

112 110 KARIM SANKARA Project Manager, Western Africa Regional Office, ECPAT France and ECPAT Luxembourg Karim Sankara has been working for more than 10 years in child protection both within a public administration scope in Burkina Faso and through a regional child protection NGO. As a project manager in the regional office of ECPAT France and ECPAT Luxembourg in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, he contributes to the strengthening of national systems for the protection of children against commercial sexual exploitation, including raising awareness in the public consciousness and empowering local officers to counter CSEC and help victims cope. Mr. Sankara s experiences have strengthened his understanding of national child protection systems in Burkina Faso and other countries in the sub-region of West Africa. The multidisciplinary nature of his academic and professional career also enable him to analyze complex situations and anticipate and mitigate challenges. [«It seems I am a very good facilitator, he says, laughing.] In his social and professional life, Mr. Sankara tries to promote the values of equity, solidarity, and collaboration. SALIMA SARWAR Executive Director, ACD - Association for Community Development Ms. Salima Sarwar holds an MA in Sociology from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. She is the Executive Director and founder member of Association for Community Development-ACD. ACD has been working for empowering women and children and to establish their rights since In 1992, she received ASHOKA Fellowship in recognition of the work in community development, environment management and women's empowerment. As a pioneer in her work in the counter trafficking initiatives in Bangladesh, she got Anti-Slavery International Award in 2001 to protect children from bonded slave or slavery like practices. In 2008, she received Individual Leadership Award for Innovation by UN-HABITAT Regional Office for Asia and Pacific (ROAP) for her work on gender and rights. She is working for changing the social attitudes towards women and girls to protect gender based violence to develop community care system. MISATO SASAKI Core Member, ECPAT/STOP Japan Misato Sasaki first joined the fight against CSEC in 2009 when she joined the Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People parade that was a part of the campaign with THE BODY SHOP, Japan. Inspired by that experience, she joined in activities and the movements against CSEC as a youth member of ECPAT/STOP Japan. Her work with ECPAT focuses on planning and hosting seminars for university students, uploading CSEC news in Japan to the official homepage, editing a Q&A book, and submitting a petition calling for legislation with members of ECPAT/STOP Japan. Since 2011, she has also been the core member specifically responsible for liaising with the YMCA. MARCO SCARPATI Vice-Chair, ECPAT Italy Marco Scarpati holds a law degree from Parma University, with a specialization in International and European Law. He teaches International Organisation Law at Parma University, International Child Protection Law at Milano University, and previously taught Comparative Family Law (also at Parma University). Mr. Scarpati served as the President of ECPAT Italy from , when he stepped down to be Vice- President. Additionally, Mr. Scarpati is a barrister at the Italian Supreme Court; a member of the Italian National Observatory Against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Pedophilia; participates in research on Italian and communitarian procedures of cooperation in Africa, Asia, and Latin America focusing on women and children law;

113 and has published more than thirty different studies and research on child protection issues. He lives in Reggio Emilia with his wife, Antonella, and their two children, Alessio (22) and Aurora (20). 111 NORA SCHULMAN Executive Director, CASACIDN Nora Susana Schulman holds a Bachelor s degree in Social Work from the University of Buenos Aires. Ms. Schulman has been the Executive Director of CASACIDN (Argentinian Committee to Review the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child) since Ms. Schulman is the CASACIDN representative for the Latin American and Caribbean Network for the Protection of the Rights of Children and Adolescents (Redlamyc), as well as ECPAT International. She has teaching experience at the University of Buenos Aires, Luján and Comahue and serves as Academic Coordinator for a number of online courses on Law for Comprehensive Protection of Children and Adolescents.She coodinates training workshops for NGOs on the Prevention of Violence against Children and Adolescents project, in cooperation with UNICEF Argentina and the government of Buenos Aires. She is also General Coordinator for the Monitoring and Support Project on the Implementation of Comprehensive Protection of Children in Esteban Echeverría and the Regional Strategy for the Fight Against Child Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Mercosur. Ms. Schulman regularly liaises with ECPAT to promote training workshops and communication with other local organisations to bring CSEC to the top of the political agenda in Argentina. DR. TATIANA SEMIKOP Leader, Faith, Hope, Love Dr. Tatiana Semikop is the head of the public movement Faith, Hope, Love, which she has led since Dr. Semikop is also the cheif editor of the newspaper Here and Now, which serves people living with HIV/AIDs (PLHA), injecting drug users (IDU), sex business workers (SBW), men having sex with men (MSM), and people in the prison system. Dr. Semikop is a member of the Odessa City Hall working group to reform specialized institutions for children in Odessa. Dr. Semikop has served as the President of All-Ukrainian Network of NGOs against CSEC since CHLOE SETTER Head of Advocacy, Policy & Campaigns, ECPAT UK Chloe Setter is Head of Advocacy, Policy & Campaigns (Child Trafficking) at the leading children s rights charity ECPAT UK, which campaigns against child exploitation and trafficking. She leads on policy for trafficking at the organisation, authors research and briefings, and leads on several campaigns and a current European project on trafficking for forced criminality. She chairs the Home Office Child Trafficking ministerial subgroup, sits on various Government working/expert groups, writes expert reports and is the organisational lead for the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group. NEEVA SHRESTHA PRADHAN Finance and Administrative Officer, Nepal Office, ECPAT Luxembourg Neeva Shrestha Pradhan has been working with ECPAT Luxembourg since 2010, with which she serves as the Administrative and Finance Officer in the ECPAT Luxembourg Nepal Office. She has 9 years of working experience in INGO administration and finance. Neeva Shrestha Pradhan holds a Master s Degree in Business Administration and her thesis was on housing finance.

114 112 DR. OLHA SHVED Regional Coordinator for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, ECPAT International Dr. Shved has served as the Regional Coordinator for Eastern Europe and CIS with ECPAT International since In addition to teaching as a senior lecturer on Sociology at the Ukranian Academy of Labor and Social Relation, Department of Social Work and Practical Psychology, Dr. Shved has a long, rich career in Human Rights advocacy. A few of her leadership positions and contributions include: current Head of Council of the International Right Centre La Strada Ukraine; former expert for the Council of Europe Working group Combating Violence against Women ; and former Executive Director of the Ukrainian Family Planning Association (International Planned Parenthood Federation. Dr. Shved holds a PhD in Sociology (Social Work), from Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs and a Master s Degree in Civil Engineering, Kyiv State Building University of Architecture and Construction. INDRANI SINHA Founding Director, SANLAAP Indrani Sinha is one of the founding members of SANLAAP, an NGO working for the rights of trafficked women and children in India, including operating shelters for rescued trafficked children and children of prostitutes, as well as drop-in centres in the red light areas of Calcutta. She participated in the UN Mission in Kosovo in 2003, setting up a Rescue and Rehabilitation Programme for the victims of trafficking in Pristina, Kosovo, under the Department of Justice. In prior positions, Ms. Sinha worked as a teacher and project and programme officer for several development organisations, including Oxfam. Ms. Sinha has many accolades, including: the National Award for Child Welfare (1997); the National Award for Women s Empowerment and Promoting the Cause of Women (2002); and 1000 Peace Women Award (2006). Ms. Sinha is on the Board of several organisations working in the region on issues of trafficking, child sexual abuse and children in cheap and bonded labour. She has experience working closely with ECPAT International, CBATN, CATW, NAWO, etc. She is also on the Advisory Committee of the State on the issue of trafficking. She holds degrees in Education and English Literature from Jadavpur University in Calcutta, India, and diplomas in social work and personnel management. CAROL SMOLENSKI Executive Director, ECPAT-USA Carol is one of the founders of ECPAT-USA and has been working in the field of children s rights for over twenty years. She is a long-time nationally recognized leader working to stop the commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking of children. She was the Project Director for the New York City Community Response to Trafficking Project in New York, a ground breaking project to inform communities at risk for human trafficking about the federal anti-trafficking law and help obtain better protections for victims. She has developed and managed projects to stop the commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking of children in the United States, Mexico, Belize and Brazil. She presented testimony in venues ranging from the New York City Council to the United States Congress to the United Nations. Carol has a Bachelor s degree from Rutgers University, a Master s Degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College and an M.Phil from Columbia University.

115 AHMAD SOFIAN Regional Representative for East Asia and the Pacific, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Ahmad Sofian has been working on the issue of CSEC, both in Indonesia and globally, for over ten years. His dedication to ECPAT Indonesia has contributed to increased advocacy at the national level in Indonesia. Sofian is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law at the Universitas Indonesia and is currently writing a dissertation on CSEC. 113 KARYN STONE Network Development Manager, ECPAT International Karyn joined ECPAT International in April Prior to joining the Secretariat in Bangkok, Karyn was involved with Beyond Borders ECPAT Canada as a Media Awards Volunteer and Board Member. She has a Master of Public Administration from the University of Manitoba/University of Winnipeg with a research focus in refugee and immigration policy and issues related to forced migration. SHARMIN SUBRINA Programme Coordinator, ACD - Association for Community Development Sharmin Subrina holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Rajshahi. She has been working with Association for Community Development-ACD since 2005 working as Programme Coordinator. ACD has been working for empowering women and children and to establish their rights since ACD works for prevention, protection, prosecution and repatriation of trafficked victims on northern part of Bangladesh. She has been involved with the antitrafficking field and CSEC since she joined ACD. She is a committed human rights worker with a strong analysis of the issues on the ground. ALICE TALLON Research Assistant, ECPAT France Alice Tallon joined ECPAT France in June 2014 as a legal intern to support projects on child trafficking. She is now in charge of a study on child victims of trafficking (in France) as a research and advocacy assistant. She holds a Master's degree in Development Project Management and a Master's degree in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. She has completed internships with the legal department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Morocco, which led her to work on issues of unaccompanied foreign minors and trafficking victims protection. She has also volunteered for several years with La Cimade where she hosts legal hotlines for foreign people. SANDY THOMPSON Chairperson, ECPAT NZ ChildAlert Sandy Thompson currently serves as the Chairperson of ECPAT NZ ChildAlert. Ms. Thompson served on the ECPAT NZ Board for three years before assuming the Chairperson role, which she has held for one year. Her professional background is in not-for-profit organisation leadership, both as a practitioner and most recently as an educator. Her experience in New Zealand is with organisations which advocate for the rights of children. Ms. Thompson is a lecturer at Unitec New Zealand for the Graduate Diploma programme in Not for Profit Management, which is delivered all

116 114 over New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. She was born in Lusaka, Zambia but has lived in New Zealand for most of her life. In her personal life, she is the mother of four young adult daughters and manages a family olive grove in the far north of New Zealand. SUMNIMA TULADHAR Regional Representative for South Asia, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Sumnima Tuladhar has extensive experience in child protection issues, child sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation of children, street children, trafficking in women and children, child participation and children in armed conflict. She has conducted and published various researches on the issues of child rights and child protection. She is also one of the pioneers of online child protection in Nepal. As an expert on child protection issues in Nepal, she is engaged in policy advocacy on child rights. As a founding member of CWIN-Nepal, Sumnima has been working passionately towards these causes for the past 27 years in various capacities within CWIN. Sumnima is a board member of ECPAT International representing South Asia, a member of AATWIN (Alliance against trafficking in women and children) and a core committee member of Women's Network for Peace (Shanti Malika) and a founder member of Women in Policy Advocacy Alliance (WlPAA). JUNITA UPADHYAY Regional Representative for South Asia, ECPAT International Board of Trustees Junita Upadhyay is the Deputy Executive Director, Programmes of ECPAT International. Junita joined ECPAT in 2006 as the Child and Youth Participation Officer and assumed the position of the Deputy Executive Director since Prior to joining ECPAT, Junita was the Executive Director for Child Workers in Asia (CWA), a regional network of NGOs working against Child Labour in Asia based in Bangkok, Thailand. Before that Junita worked as the Programme Manager with the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), a multi-disciplinary network based in the USA. Junita holds has a Master s degree in Sociology and in Nonprofit Management. She has more than 10 years of international experience focused on child rights and protection. EMILIE VALLAT Director, ECPAT France After completing a Master s degree in Political Sciences and a BA in Economics, Ms. Vallat served international non-governmental organisations in the fields of humanitarian assistance, health and child protection. She worked for 10 years as a project coordinator, child protection officer and then country director, mainly in the Middle East and in Africa. Ms. Vallat s last job in the field was in Sudan during the Darfur crisis. After returning to France, she served as a desk officer at the International Secretariat headquarters before joining the ECPAT France team in July 2011 as a Programme Officer for East Africa. Ms. Vallat was appointed as the Director of ECPAT France in April DORINE VAN DER KEUR Director, Global Study Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism, ECPAT International Dorine coordinates the first-ever global study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Travel and Tourism and supports a Global Taskforce of eminent persons to guide the study. Dorine is a lawyer with two Masters in Law. Before joining ECPAT, she worked for 9 years at the biggest law firm in The Netherlands. In 2002, she volunteered with a foundation in Ukraine that focuses on job creation for persons with disabilities. In 2006, she was seconded by ICCO to Cambodia to support local NGOs including Legal Aid, Cambodia. She subsequently managed the Access to Justice project for the UNDP,

117 Cambodia. In 2010, she went to Tajikistan to lead a project on legal aid for farmers. After two years she returned to Cambodia to work as an evaluation expert and researcher on rule of law issues, including children s and women s rights. 115 DANIELLE VAN KERCKHOVEN Administrator, ECPAT Belgium Danielle Van Kerckhoven was part of a group of NGO worker volunteers in Belgium to raise awareness about the first ECPAT campaign in the early 1990s. Ms. Van Kerckhoven then started ECPAT Belgium with two colleagues in 1993 to help facilitate the first World Congress held in Stockholm in Since that time, Ms. Van Kerckhoven has been in charge of the daily administrative management of ECPAT Belgium, and has also participated in various national, European and international projects, including extraterritoriality, anti-trafficking handbook and training, Youth Participation Project, the stop child prostitution campaign and many others. SHEILA VARADAN Head of Legal Programme, ECPAT International Sheila is a Canadian qualified barrister with almost ten years experience in international human rights law and criminal law. She comes to ECPAT after spending four years with the International Commission of Jurists, focusing on access to justice and impunity for serious human rights violations in South Asia. Sheila also worked as a Rule of Law Specialist with the International Rescue Committee, where she led community-based projects in the ethnic Burmese refugee camps of Thailand on juvenile justice and genderbased violence. Previously, Sheila practiced as a criminal prosecutor with the Ontario Ministry of Attorney General and worked as civil litigation lawyer in Toronto Ontario. In 2005, she became a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and in 2006, she completed barrister pupilage in London England. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree in International Human Rights from the London School of Economics, a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree and a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) degree from McGill University and an Honors Bachelor of Arts (Hon. B.A.) degree in comparative politics from the University of Guelph in Canada. CELINE VERHEIJEN Project Coordinator, ECPAT Netherlands Celine Verheijen is Project Coordinator at ECPAT Netherlands, where she has worked since Her main activity is the protection of children against sexual exploitation in tourism in collaboration with the tourism industry. As the Local Code Representative, ECPAT NL urges tourism companies to sign The Code and assists them in implementing child protection measures. Celine trains tourism professionals and future tourism professionals at tourism related schools and universities on how they can recognise child sex tourism and act to protect children and prevent CSEC. Celine is the coordinator of the ECPAT Youth Group, coordinates the projects Don t Look Away and the peer education project Make IT Safe. Celine writes numerous reports, project proposals, web and magazine articles, newsletters and gives presentations for various stakeholders. DR. EUGENIA VILLAREAL Director, ECPAT Guatemala Dr. María Eugenia Villareal participated in the First World Congress against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Stockholm in She then founded ECPAT Guatemala with local NGOs working on the protection of children s rights in Guatemala City. In 2001, she was appointed President of ECPAT Guatemala s Executive Board and became the Executive Director a year later. Dr. Villareal is a sociologist with over 15 years of experience

118 116 in the fight against child trafficking, child labor and sexual exploitation of children, and child pornography in Mexico and Central America. In 2005, she was appointed Regional Representative for Latin America at ECPAT International s Executive Board until 2009 and later designated Secretary of the Board until She has written over a dozen books on human trafficking and the sexual and labor exploitation of children in Guatemala and other Central American countries. She regularly participates in regional and international conferences on the fight against CSEC and the protection of children s rights. Dr. Villareal also has experience in strategic planning, analysis of current affairs and promotion of women s and children s rights. GUILLEMETTE VUILLARD Programme Manager, ECPAT France After graduating from Business School in France and several experiences in the private sector, Guillemette Vuillard started working in the humanitarian and development sector 10 years ago. In 2005, she joined the French medical NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as an administrator involved in human resources and financial management and worked in the field, particularly in Nepal. She then became responsible for partnerships with private sector and major donors at MSF headquarters in Paris. In 2008, she joined ECPAT (End Child Prostitution and Trafficking) as the Programme Manager in France where she developed many projects against child sexual exploitation in East Africa and Madagascar. She is now responsible for coordinating a European project called Don t Look Away, be aware of child sexual exploitation and report it! aimed at reducing the social tolerance of child sexual exploitation and creating a collective consciousness. BANJAMIN WABUROKO ECPAT Coordinator, ECPAT Uganda Banjamin Waburoko Mabonga holds a Master of Arts degree in Human Rights and a post graduate diploma in Education. He is the ECPAT Coordinator for the ECPAT Uganda group, hosted by Uganda Child Rights NGO Network (UCRNN). Banjamin has coordinated a number of child rights research in Uganda and promoted partnerships for child rights promotion and protection in the country. He previously coordinated the ECPAT Eastern African Regional programme involving ECPAT groups from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia. Benjamin has previously worked as Networking Officer, Manager Child Rights Monitoring and Reporting at UCRNN. ASTRID WINKLER Executive Director, ECPAT Austria Astrid Winkler, has been the Executive Director of the independent NGO ECPAT Austria (AT) since Astrid first became involved with ECPAT and ending CSEC in 2001, when she worked as a project manager at NFI/respect (Nature friends International and its programme for sustainable tourism, respect). Together with a colleague, she started the initiative to establish an ECPAT organisation in Austria in Ms. Winkler holds a master/diploma degree in Sociology with a focus on methodology, Human Rights, Gender and Migration issues; she has additional training in adult education, prejudice reduction, violence prevention and journalism. Ms. Winkler also has a wealth of experience in advocacy, networking and training in Austria and at the European and international levels. She is a member of a number of international organisations and working groups in Austria (i.e. Taskforce on Combating THB), and is well known and appreciated for her expertise, especially on tourism related topics, child trafficking, and child protection policy development and implementation.

119 MARIANA YEVSYUKOVA Global Coordinator for Children s Participation, ECPAT International Mariana Yevsyukova has been involved with the protection of women and children in Ukraine for almost 15 years. Since 2005 she has been involved into ECPAT activities from different perspectives and taking different roles - coordinator of the Youth section of the All-Ukrainian Network against CSEC ( ), national coordinator of YPP in Ukraine ( ), Central and Eastern Europe EICYAC representative ( ), Eastern and Central Europe Representative to ECPAT International Board of Trustees ( ). Mariana was a speaker and moderator at numerous international events on child protection, including Ljubljana Mid-term Review and World Congress III against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents. Mariana Yevsyukova is author of more than 25 publications on the issues of child rights protection, domestic violence, trafficking in human beings, gender discrimination. She is also the former Director of the Legal Department at the International Women Rights Centre La Strada-Ukraine and a licensed lawyer. 117 LESLY ZAMBRANO MORENO Regional Representative for Latin America, ECPAT International Board of Trustees For the past 20 years, Lesly Zambrano has worked with sexually exploited and homeless children and teenagers in Colombia. She has also worked with migrants and refugee communities, displaced people and young people at risk of dropping out of school at the national and international level. Ms. Zambrano was a consultant for the National Plan to end CSEC in Colombia and has worked as a researcher and social programme and project manager. She has experience training young people as peer educators in preventing both sexual violence in children and racism. Ms. Zambrano is currently working as the research and internationalization coordinator at Cooperativa de Colombia University in Apartadó, and is responsible for raising awareness about CSEC in the Urabá region for the Renacer Foundation. DR. DANIELA MARIANA ZULCOVSKY Treasurer, CASACIDN Dr. Daniela Zulcovsky is an Argentinian psychologist specialising in Children s Rights and family violence prevention. She was previously a technical assistant to the Proamba- European Union Project to train caregivers of victims of sexual exploitation. Dr. Zulcovsky also served as technical coordinator for a UNICEF Project on Contributions to Political and Social Dialogue for Monitoring and Implementation of Recommendations by the Committee on the Rights of the Children. In addition to being a member of the Argentinian Committee that monitors implementation of the CRC. In cooperation with ECPAT International, Dr. Zulcovsky conducts research and work with national and local governments, as well as with civil society organisations to raise awareness on CSEC, and to promote training and exchanges of best practices on this issue.