He is the author and co-author of several books on human rights and the law, and the editor of the African Human Rights Law Reports and the African Human Rights Law Journal. He holds the following degrees: LLD (Pretoria), LLM (Cambridge), MA and LLB (Pretoria).

Since the 1990s she has been active in the human rights field among both the academic community and human rights advocates/activists at national, regional and international levels. She has been working closely with NGOs, grassroots people and some marginalized groups, ethnic minorities, migrant workers, asylum seekers, etc. Her recent works focuses, among others, on issues of citizenship, migration, statelessness, rights to development, and human rights in international relations and human rights in ASEAN.

HIn October 2009 Prof. Petcharamesree was appointed by the Thai government as the Thai Representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights in which she served until December 2012. She is Co-Chair of the Working Group for an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism advocating for an effective regional human rights system in ASEAN.

She has held various legal researcher positions including with the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, Centre for Disability Law and Policy of the National University of Ireland, Galway; Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and the Committee of Experts on Constitutional Review (Kenya). Ms. Kamundia is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya.

His areas of interest include the African Renaissance, development and human rights, and disability rights and he has published on these topics. Prof. Kamga is also a co-editor of the African Disability Rights Yearbook.

Her main areas of interest are constitutional law, human rights and disability law. She is co-editor of the African Disability Rights Yearbook and co-edited Aspects of Disability Law in Africa (2011) with Prof TP van Reenen.

Between 2001 and 2012 he coordinated a programme for labor inclusion for the visually impaired. He is an advisor of the National Programme for Persons with Disabilities in their Relationship with the Administration of Justice (ADAJUS) at the Ministry of Justice in Argentina.

He has been a consultant of the Inter-American Development Bank in the evaluation of labor insertion programmes. Since 2014 he is the Argentine civil society delegate and Vicepresident of the Committee for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (CEDDIS) of the Organization of American States (OAS).

In 2014 she became the youngest awardee of a European Research Council Starting Grant for the VOICES project on the lived experiences of those denied legal capacity. At a national level she is also actively engaged in processes of legal capacity reform, and co-ordinates a working group of civil society organizations on this issue, as well as a group of organizations supporting the emergence of a National Platform of Self Advocates with Intellectual Disability.

Internationally, Dr. Flynn has supported the Secretariat of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and in particular the working group which prepared a draft General Comment on Article 12 (legal capacity). She has published widely in international peer reviewed journals on disability rights issues, and is the author of two monographs published by Cambridge University Press and Ashgate.

Mrs. Bešlija, is editor in chief of the journal Paraplegia and Us and former director of the paraplegics` sports games in BiH. Also, she is the President of the Council for the Persons with Disabilities in BiH and the President of the Union of the Organizations for the Persons with Disabilities in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH).

Mrs. Bešlija is actively engaged in the field of the rights of the persons with disabilities as a legal consultant, coordinator and trainer, as well as an author, co-author and editor of numerous publications in BiH.