Barbara is a child protection specialist with extensive on-the-ground experience working in complex emergencies, focusing on conflict-affected contexts. She has worked with the ICRC and INGOs and has striven to promote and implement right-based approaches to humanitarian work, with a focus on child rights.

Main areas of expertise: Children and Armed Conflict, including Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups (CAAFAG), protection of children on the move, case management for children affected by violence and abuse, including child survivors of trafficking, child rights programming and child protection systems strengthening. Barbara holds a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Vienna University, and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Juvenile Justice from Geneva University.

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-paul-p-a-amah-05bb7b147/

Email: barbara.strasser@gchumanrights.org

Phone: +39 041 2720 911

Before joining the Global Campus, he worked for 10 years as youth and adolescent educator and counsellor in different regions of Cameroon. He also worked as Field Officer for ‘Human Is Right’, a Cameroon-based NGO where he undertook field missions and documented human rights violations in the English-speaking parts of Cameroon under armed conflict.

He holds a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the EMA Programme. He also holds a Post Graduate Teachers’ Diploma Grade II, obtained from Ecole Normale Superieure, University of Yaounde I, a Maitrise en Droit, from the University of Yaounde II, and a Bachelor’s in Management and Environment Geography, from the University of Dschang, all in Cameroon. His research interests on children’s rights include children’s right to participation and their right to education. /p>

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-paul-p-a-amah-05bb7b147/

Email: johnpaul.amah@gchumanrights.org

Phone: +39 041 2720 960

During the Global Study implementation he was the Coordinator and Assistant to the Independent Expert leading the United Nations Global Study on Children deprived of Liberty based first at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights followed by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human rights in Geneva.

Manu Krishan studied philosophy before graduating from the Vienna Master of Arts in Human Rights at the University of Vienna. He is a human rights researcher and Project Manager with proficiency in children’s rights, particularly on ethical considerations when researching with and for children.

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manukrishan

Email: manu.krishan@gchumanrights.org

Chiara holds a Ph.D in International Law from the European University Institute, an LL.M in Comparative, European and International Law from the EUI, a Master’s in Rule of Law, Democracy and Human Rights from LUISS University, and graduated cum laude at the Law Department of Roma Tre University. She was a visiting research scholar at the Center for International and Comparative Law of the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor. Her main research interests concern economic, social and cultural rights in times of crisis, including in contexts of armed conflict and occupation, children’s rights, business and human rights, social justice, environmental and climate justice, and governance.

Chiara leads the UN Global Study component of the ACRiSL project (2020-2023), focusing on children’s rights affected by migration-related detention. She has also led a project aimed at enacting the Global Study recommendations in the European Context, engaging with ENOC as well as national and regional ombudspersons in Italy. In 2018-2019 she was lead researcher on the situation of ‘children living in prisons with their primary caregivers’ for the UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, and the main author of the related chapter.

Chiara is one of the editors of GC Human Rights Preparedness. Previously she edited the GCHRJ’s first special focus on children’s rights. She coordinated the EMA research contributions to the Global Classroom 2021 and 2020. She contributed to the GC MOOCs on ‘Children Deprived of Liberty’ and ‘Child Participation and the Right to a Sustainable Environment’. In 2016-2017 she was senior researcher on the FP7 FRAME project.

Over the last thirteen years Chiara worked as lecturer and research and teaching assistant in International Law, International Organization and Human Rights, Human Rights and International Protection, International Protection of Cultural Heritage, and International Criminal Law at LUISS University, where she also was a member of the Research Team on the FP7 PRIV-WAR project. She conducted research and editorial activities for IAI (Istituto Affari Internazionali). She worked as a trainee lawyer at Avvocatura Generale dello Stato in Rome (2005-2007) and has been admitted to the Italian Bar.

Email: chiara.altafin@gchumanrights.org

Rocío is also conducting a PhD at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany as a fellow scholar for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Prior to this, she obtained a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and a Master’s in Human Rights and Democratization at the University of San Martin (Cohorte 2014-15).

Following her Masters, she published her thesis ‘Gender and the best interests of the child in the administration of justice: Case Analysis in Argentina’. She also gained experience as a human rights consultant at the Regional Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Chile, working specifically on the promotion and protection of human rights through the Universal Periodic Review-UPR- mechanism.

She has published articles in the field of migration, children's rights, enforced disappearances, economic, social and cultural rights, the UN Agenda 2030 and the right to Food.

Email: rociocomas@gmail.com

Elvis completed his PhD at the Institute for Human Rights, Åbo Akademi University, with a focus on child participation in family decision-making processes in Africa. He writes and publishes predominantly on children’s rights within the African context. His research interests include: International Children’s Rights, Public International Law, (relating to Africa), African Human Rights System, Constitutionalism in Africa (relating to vulnerable groups).

Email: elvis.fokala@up.ac.za

Nejira has been a children's and adolescents' rights activist and educator for seven years through local labour unions, focusing on the prohibition of illegal child labour and the education of youth about human and workers' rights. She has also been involved in several projects relating to youth in peacebuilding and reconciliation in the Western Balkans with USAID, the International Republican Institute, United Nations Kosovo Team, and numerous organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.

Nejira's primary research interests are children and labour, political psychology, geopolitics, and public policy.

Email: nejira.pasic@gchumanrights.org

Mariam’s background is in social work and for several years she worked as a child protection coordinator at World Vision Armenia (2010-2015). She also worked with the Ministry of Healthcare and Global Fund (HIV/AIDs and TB), the Ombudsman Office of Artsakh and in local CSOs in Armenia in the field of human rights, with a special focus on children’s rights.

Mariam is an alumna of the Master’s programme in Human Rights and Democratisation in the Caucasus (2012-2014) and an alumna of College of Europe, Natolin (MA) in 2016-2017. She holds a bachelor degree in philology and social work.

Email: mariam.muradyan18@gmail.com

Fahmina has hands-on field experience working directly with displaced children while serving with United Nations, INGOs and NGOs and academia in varies countries in Asia. She also has programming experience of implementing child rights projects, monitoring and coordinating local NGOs and Civil Society Organizations. Fahmina has specialized training on Best Intertest Assessment (BIA) and Best Interest Determination (BID), gender-based violence and protection need assessment for children in migration. She has received profession training on counseling and interviewing children in distresses. She had served as trainer in various child protection projects.

Fahmina holds a Bachelor and a Master’s degree in International Relations and is currently engaged as PhD candidate at the Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Mahidol University Thailand. Her thesis focuses on human rights to education of refugee and stateless children.

Email: fahmina.fahmina7@gmail.com