Programme: Wayamo/AGJA Symposium Cape Town

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International Symposium

AFRICA GROUP FOR JUSTICE

AND ACCOUNTABILITYAFRICAN JUSTICE MECHANISMS AND THEIR INTERPLAY WITH THEINTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

22 - 24 MARCH 2016UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

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AFRICA GROUP FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY

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TUESDAY, 22 MARCH 2016

10:00 – 11:15Welcoming remarks

Penelope Andrews Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town

Opening remarks

Bettina Ambach Director, Wayamo Foundation, Berlin Navi Pillay Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on behalf of the Africa Group for

Justice and Accountability

Keynote

Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi President of the International Criminal Court

11:15 – 11:30Coffee break

11:30 – 13:30PANEL I: Africa and the ICC: Misperceptions and realities

The ICC-Africa relationship is often regarded with mixed, if not opposing, views. Against this

background, what factors, both historical and political, as well as contemporary issues must beconsidered when assessing the ICC-Africa relationship? This discussion will address the often heardaccustions that the ICC is a neo-colonial, anti-African institution and the argument that the AU is a“dictators’ club”. Finally, participants will debate about the signicance of the decisions taken at the26th ordinary summit of the African Union in January 2016.

Moderator

Mark Kersten Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto; Research Director, Wayamo Foundation

Introductory remarks

Richard Goldstone Former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal forRwanda and the former Yugoslavia

Panellists

Elizabeth Evenson Senior Counsel, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch, New York James A. Goldston Executive Director, Open Society Justice Initiative, New York Charles C. Jalloh Associate Professor at Florida International University College of Law Tim Murithi Head of the Justice and Reconciliation in Africa Programme, Institute for Justice and

Reconciliation, Cape TownBill Pace Convenor, Coalition for the ICC (CICC), New York


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13:30 – 14:30Lunch

14:30 – 15:30PANEL II: African courts and international crime divisions

The Hissène Habré trial before the Extraordinary African Chambers in Senegal; the SpecialCriminal Court in the Central African Republic; the African Court on Human and Peoples‘ Rights in Arusha; and International Crime Units in Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda.What do such institutions and trials mean for justice and accountability in Africa? What do theymean for the ICC-Africa relationship? Of equal, if not greater, importance, what do such trialsimply for the victims of injustice and the African public? Are these „African (judicial) solutions to

African (impunity) problems”?

Moderator

Patryk I. Labuda Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights


Abdul Tejan-Cole Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, Dakar

Panellists

Netsanet Belay Africa Director, Research and Advocacy, Amnesty International, Johannesburg Ottilia Anna Maunganidze Senior Researcher, Ofce of the Executive Director and Transnational

Threats and International Crime Division, Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria Jacqueline Moudeina President of the Chadian Association for the Promotion and Defense of Human

Rights; Represented Hissène Habré´s victims since 2000 Simo Väätäinen Witness protection consultant; Former Chief of the Victim and Witness Protection Unit at

the ICC and STL; Member of UN Team of Experts to conduct an assessment of the Special Criminal Court in

the Central African Republic


16:00 – 17:00PANEL II (continued)


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WEDNESDAY, 23 MARCH 2016

9:00 – 10:30PANEL III: Human rights in Africa: Progress and regression

Do recent developments represent advances in the protection of human rights on thecontinent? Which developments should be of particular concern? Beyond prosecution, whatresponses and mechanisms can and should be employed to further advance human rights andaddress shortcomings in Africa?

Moderator

Joseph Roberts-Mensah Africa Director, Wayamo Foundation, Accra


Navi Pillay Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Panellists

Femi Falana Human rights activist and lawyer, LagosTiyanjana Maluwa H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law, Pennsylvania State University School of Law;

Former Associate Dean for International Affairs, School of Law & Director, School of International Affairs Fatiha Serour Director of Serour Associates for Inclusion and Equity, London


11:00 – 12:30PANEL IV: Increasing importance of Transnational Criminal Law in Africa and its links to coreinternational crimes

Is Transnational Organised Crime becoming part of the remit of International Crime Units across

Africa? This panel will address the challenges in the collection, sharing and use of evidence in theprosecution of international and transnational crimes, the evolving nature of organised crime in Africa and its policy responses, and the difference between transnational crimes and coreinternational crimes and how a transnational crime could “become” a Rome Statute crime.

Moderator

Mark Kersten Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto; Research Director, Wayamo Foundation

Panellists

Philipp Ambach Special Assistant of the President, International Criminal Court Charles Goredema Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town


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Jemima Njeri Kariri Senior Researcher, Transnational Threats and International Crime Division, Institutefor Security Studies, Pretoria Pierre St. Hilaire Director, Counter-Terrorism, INTERPOL

12:30 – 13:30Lunch

13:30 – 14:45PANEL V: Victims and reparations

What do victims of international crimes want? What is the responsibility of states to victims? Howcan reparations be provided to victims and survivors of international crimes?

Moderator

Kelly-Jo Bluen Project Leader for International Justice, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Johannesburg

Panellists

Stephen Lamony Head of Advocacy and Policy on UN, AU and Africa Situations, Coalition for the ICC(CICC), New York Yasmin Sooka Executive Director, Foundation for Human Rights, Johannesburg Mia Swart Professor of International Law, University of Johannesburg


15:15 – 16:30PANEL VI: The role of NGOs in international crime investigations

Non-governmental organisations can play a crucial role in the investigation and prosecution ofinternational crimes at both a domestic and an international level. NGOs have collected

evidence of allegations of international crimes and worked to institute domestic and internationalproceedings concerning international crimes. This panel will discuss the different roles that NGOscan and should play in the investigation and prosecution of international crimes, as well as thepossible dangers of such NGO involvement.

Moderator

Hannah Woolaver Senior Lecturer in Public International Law, University of Cape Town

Panellists

Angela Mudukuti Legal ofcer for the Southern Africa Litigation Centre, Johannesburg Stephen Rapp Former Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, Ofce of Global Criminal Justice,

Department of State, United States of America


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THURSDAY, 24 MARCH 2016

9:00 – 10:30PANEL VII: Immunity of Heads of State under International Law

How can the AU resolution exempting serving Heads of State from prosecution be reconciled withthe duty to render justice for atrocity crimes? This panel explores the ongoing controversy over thescope of immunity under international law, and in particular whether Heads of State enjoy immunityfrom prosecution for international crimes.

Moderator

Patryk I. Labuda Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Panellists

Dapo Akande Professor of Public International Law, University of OxfordChristopher Gevers Lecturer, School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal Max Du Plessis Associate Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Advocate of the High Court of

South Africa Dire Tladi Professor of International Law, University of Pretoria; Special Adviser to the Minister of

International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa; Member of the UN International Law Commission


11:00 – 13:00CLOSING REMARKS: Africa Group for Justice and Accountability on conclusions and lessonslearnt

Moderator

Bettina Ambach Director, Wayamo Foundation, Berlin

Panellists

Dapo Akande Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford Femi Falana Human rights activist and lawyer, Lagos Richard Goldstone Former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for

Rwanda and the former YugoslaviaTiyanjana Maluwa H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law, Pennsylvania State University School of Law;

Former Associate Dean for International Affairs, School of Law & Director, School of International Affairs Athaliah Molokomme Attorney General of Botswana Navi Pillay Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Fatiha Serour Director of Serour Associates for Inclusion and Equity, London Abdul Tejan-Cole Executive Director of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa, Dakar


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BIOGRAPHIES


FEMI FALANANigeria

the African Court on Human and Peoples‘ Rights in Arusha.

His many awards include the American Bar Association‘sInternational Human Rights Award, the Defender of theYear Award 2000 from the International League forHuman Rights (New York), the Bernard Simons Memorial

Award for Human Rights from the International Bar

Association, and the Gani Fawehinmi Life Time Award onhuman rights from the Hallmark of Labour Foundation.In addition he has been honoured for „Outstanding

Leadership, Achievements and Contributions to the Advancement of Civil Society, Human Rights andthe process of Democratization in Nigeria“ by theCommonwealth of Massachusetts State Senate, Houseof Representatives and Boston City Council, andpresented with the Knight of Freedom Award by theLegal Aid Council of Nigeria.

Among Mr. Falana‘s long list of scholarly papers andpublications mention might be made of „FundamentalRights Enforcement in Nigeria“, „ECOWAS COURT: Lawand Practice“, and „Nigerian Law on Socio-economicRights“.

DAPO AKANDENigeria

Femi Falana was born on 20 May 1958and is a Nigerian human rights activist,lawyer and arbitrator of over 30 years‘standing. He currently combines the postsof Managing Director of Legaltext Nigeriaand Editor-in-Chief of Weekly Report of

Nigeria, and is a member of the editorial board of the

THISDAY Newspaper and the Network for the Defenceof Journalists in West Africa. Aside from stints as a member of the National

Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Associationand legal adviser to the Campaign for Democracy, Mr.Falana‘s past positions include that of President of theNational Association of Democratic Lawyers, Presidentof the Committee for the Defence of Human Rightsand President of the West African Bar Association. Inaddition, he also served as Secretary-General of the

African Bar Association from 2000 to 2004.On the international front, he has appeared before

the Community Court of Justice (ECOWAS), theSpecial Court for Sierra Leone, the African Commissionon Human and Peoples‘ Rights in The Gambia, and

Dapo Akande is the Yamani Fellowat St. Peter‘s College and Co-Director ofthe Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and

Armed Conict (ELAC) & the OxfordMartin Programme on Human Rights forFuture Generations.

He has held visiting professorships at Yale LawSchool, the University of Miami School of Law and theCatolica Global Law School, Lisbon. Before taking uphis position in Oxford in 2004, he was Lecturer in Lawat the University of Nottingham School of Law (1998-

2000) and at the University of Durham (2000-2004)and taught international law at the London School ofEconomics and at Christ‘s College and Wolfson College,University of Cambridge (1994-1998).

He has varied research interests within the eld ofgeneral international law and has published articleson aspects of the law of international organisations,international dispute settlement, international criminallaw and the law of armed conict. His articles havebeen published in leading international law journals andhis article in the Journal of International Criminal Justiceon the „Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Courtover Nationals of Non-Parties: Legal Basis and Limits“

was awarded the 2003 Giorgio La Pira Prize. Akande has advised states, international organisations

and non-governmental organisations on matters ofinternational law. He has worked with the United Nationson issues relating to international humanitarian law andhuman rights law; acted as consultant for the AfricanUnion on the International Criminal Court and on thelaw relating to terrorism; and also as a consultant forthe Commonwealth Secretariat on the law of armedconict and international criminal law.

He has trained diplomats, military ofcers and other

government ofcials on international law. He has alsoadvised and assisted counsel, or provided expertopinions, in cases before the International Court ofJustice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea,international arbitral tribunals, WTO and NAFTA DisputeSettlement Panels as well as cases in England and theUnited States of America.

He is the founding editor of the widely read blogof the European Journal of International Law EJIL:Talk!and has been a member of the boards of a numberof journals, academic and professional organisationsand one of the editors of the Oxford Companion toInternational Criminal Justice.


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RICHARD GOLDSTONESouth Africa

HASSAN BUBACAR JALLOWThe Gambia

Richard J. Goldstone was born on 26October 1938. After graduating from theUniversity of the Witwatersrand with aBA LLB cum laude in 1962, he practisedas an Advocate at the JohannesburgBar. In 1976 he was appointed Senior

Counsel and in 1980 was made Judge of the TransvaalSupreme Court. In 1989 he was appointed Judge of the

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court.From 1991 to 1994, he served as Chairperson of the

Commission of Inquiry regarding Public Violence and

Intimidation, which came to be known as the GoldstoneCommission.From July 1994 to October 2003, he was a Justice

of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He played amajor role in the transition from apartheid South Africato democracy.

From August 1994 to September 1996, he served asthe Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations InternationalCriminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia andRwanda.

During 1998, he was the chairperson of a high levelgroup of international experts which met in Valencia,Spain, and drafted a Declaration of Human Duties and

Responsibilities for the Director General of UNESCO (theValencia Declaration). From August 1999 until December2001, he was the chairperson of the International

Independent Inquiry on Kosovo. In December 2001 he was appointed as the chairperson of the InternationalTask Force on Terrorism that was established by theInternational Bar Association.

In April 2004, he was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to the IndependentInternational Committee, chaired by Paul Volcker, toinvestigate the Iraq Oil for Food program.

In 2008, he chaired a UN Committee to advisethe United Nations on appropriate steps to preservethe archives and legacy of the International Criminal

Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. In2009, he chaired the United Nations Fact FindingMission on possible war crimes and international humanrights violations committed by any party in the contextof the military action in Gaza in December 2008 andJanuary 2009.

Goldstone received the 1994 International HumanRights Award of the American Bar Association, the2005 Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice andHuman Rights, and the 2009 MacArthur Award forInternational Justice, announced by the John D. andCatherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

He is the author of For Humanity: Reections of a

War Crimes Investigator (2001), and the co-authorof International Judicial Institutions: the Architecture ofInternational Justice at Home and Abroad (2008).

Hassan Bubacar Jallow is the ChiefProsecutor of the International Criminal

Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the ChiefProsecutor of the Unoted NationsMechanism for International CriminalTribunals (MICT) and the Under Secretary-

General of the United Nations.He studied law in Tanzania, Nigeria and Great Britain

and previously worked as Attorney General and Ministerof Justice in The Gambia (1984-1994) and as Justiceof the Gambian Supreme Court (1998-2002), Judgeof the Appeals Chamber, UN Special Court for SierraLeone (2002), Judge Ad Litem of the InternationalCriminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (2001), andJudge of the Commonwealth Arbitral Tribunal.

He has served the UN, the Organisation of African

Unity, the African Union and Commonwealth as a LegalConsultant on various matters, including governance,

human rights, public law, international law andinternational criminal justice. He has published variousbooks and papers on his subject of expertise and isthe author of Journey for Justice (2012). He was madeCommander of the National Order of the Republic ofThe Gambia (CRG) in 1985.

Justice Jallow is a member of the Gambian and theNigerian Bar Associations, as well as being a memberof the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIARB) andthe International Association of Prosecutors (IAP). He isCo-Chair of the World Justice Project, a member of the

Advisory Council for a Convention on Crimes againstHumanity and a member of the Commonwealth Judgesand Magistrates Association.


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BIOGRAPHIES


TIYANJANA MALUWAMalawi

ATHALIAH MOLOKOMMEBotswana

Tiyanjana Maluwa holds the H. LaddieMontague Chair in Law at PennsylvaniaState University School of Law. Hepreviously worked as the Legal Counselof the OAU (later African Union) and,subsequently, as the Legal Adviser to

the Ofce of the United Nations High Commissioner forHuman Rights in Geneva, Switzerland.

Prior to joining the African Union, he was Professor ofLaw at the University of Cape Town and ExtraordinaryProfessor of Law at the University of Pretoria. He has also

taught in a full time capacity and as a visiting professorat other universities in Africa and North America, andspent a year (1989) as a Visiting Research Fellow at theMax Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law andInternational Law in Heidelberg, Germany.

In 1997, he was asked by the United Nations to serveas the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Nigeriafollowing the execution of the famed poet-activist KenSaro Wiwa.

He is the author, editor or co-editor of a number

of books and has published extensively on variousaspects of public international law and internationalorganisations. His most recent book is Law, Politics andRights: Essays in Memory of Kader Asmal (2013).

Since 2005, has been a member of the InternationalJury of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. In 2008 and2009 he served as technical expert to the AfricanUnion High-Level Panel on Darfur, chaired by formerSouth African President Thabo Mbeki, and co-editedthe Panel’s report, Darfur: The Quest for Peace, Justiceand Reconciliation .

In July 2015 he stepped down, after eight years inthe position, as the founding director of the Penn StateSchool of International Affairs, and as the AssociateDean for International Affairs of the Penn State LawSchool, a position he had occupied concurrently since2005, to return to return to full-time faculty.

His teaching and research interests are in the eldsof public international law, international human rightslaw, international criminal justice and internationalorganisations.

Dr. Athaliah Molokomme is the At-torney General of Botswana. She holdsa Bachelor of Laws degree from theUniversity of Botswana and Swazi-land, a Masters in Law from Yale LawSchool, and a PhD in Law from Leiden

University.She taught law at the University of Botswana from

1981 to 1996, and has researched and publishedextensively in the elds of family law, women and law,customary law and employment law. For the past threedecades, she has been a regular speaker at national,regional and international conferences, workshops andseminars in her areas of expertise.

She has served on several boards, commissions andprofessional organisations at a national, regional andinternational level. Awards include the Women‘s HumanRights Award from Women, Law and DevelopmentInternational in 1993, the Presidential Order ofMeritorious Service for Exceptional Service to Botswanain 1999, and the US Ambassador‘s award as one of theVanguard Women Leaders of Botswana in 2005.

From July 1998, Dr. Molokomme was founding headof the Gender Unit at the Secretariat of the Southern

African Development Community (SADC), until May2003 when she was appointed Judge of the HighCourt of Botswana.

In October 2005, she was appointed to hercurrent position of Attorney General of the Republicof Botswana, in which capacity she acts as Principal

Legal Advisor to the country‘s government under theConstitution, is an ex ofcio member of the BotswanaCabinet, and represents the Botswana Government onvarious Boards, Councils and Committees.

For the past decade, she has participated in theannual meetings of the Assembly of State Parties to theRome Statute of the ICC, often as Head of the BotswanaDelegation, and various ASP side events. She was anactive participant in the Africa Group negotiationsthat led to the Kampala Amendments at the ReviewConference in June 2010. Thereafter, she facilitatedand played a pivotal role in Botswana‘s ratication ofthe Kampala Amendments on the Crime of Aggressionon 15 April 2013.


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BETTY KAARI MURUNGIKenya

MOHAMED CHANDE OTHMANTanzania

FATIHA SEROURAlgeria

Betty Kaari Murungi is a lawyer withover 27 years‘ wide-ranging experiencein the practice of law at a national,regional and international level.

Educated at the University of Nairobiand Kenya School of Law, Murungi is a

past visiting fellow of the Harvard Law School‘s HumanRights Program, where she devoted her research totransitional justice mechanisms.

She has extensive background in international humanrights in the context of violent conict, with experience

in international criminal justice and accountabilitymechanisms. She has been an integral player inthe jurisprudence of international criminal law andinternational humanitarian law insofar as it pertains togender.

Ms. Murungi served for a brief period as ViceChairperson and Commissioner to the Kenya Truth,Justice and Reconciliation Commission, and for threeyears as the Africa representative on the Board ofDirectors of the Trust Fund for Victims at the InternationalCriminal Court.

Mohamed Chande Othman is currentlyChief Justice of Tanzania, a position heholds after stints as both a High Courtand Appeal Court Judge.

Justice Othman‘s previous experienceincludes that of Prosecutor General of

East Timor, Chief of Prosecutions of the InternationalCriminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and Senior Legal

Adviser to the Prosecutor of the ICTR. In addition, hehas also worked with the International Federation of theRed Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Under the ag of the United Nations, Justice Othman

has served as: Head of the UN Independent Panel ofExperts, charged with the assessment and examinati-on of new information relating to the tragic death ofthe former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld;member of the UN Human Rights Council‘s High-LevelCommission of Inquiry into the Situation in Lebanon fol-

lowing the Israel-Lebanon Armed Conict in 2006; andthe UN Human Rights Council‘s Independent Expert onthe human rights situation in the Sudan (2009-2010).

His publications include books and peer-reviewedpaper on International Humanitarian Law, Refugee Law,Criminal Law and Evidence, and Peacekeeping.

Ms. Fatiha Serour is an Algerian national who has held numerous positions withinthe United Nations and international non-governmental sector. She is currently theDirector of Serour Associates for Inclusionand Equity, an association focusing on

supporting inclusive approaches to development.Previously, she served as Deputy Special

Representative of the UN Secretary General in Somalia(2013-2014), as Senior Adviser in the Department ofEconomic and Social Affairs, with the United Nations

Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (2000-2006), and

as Director of the Youth Affairs Division, Commonwealth

Secretariat, overseeing the largest youth programme in54 Commonwealth countries (2006-2010).

In her position as Regional Director for Europe, North Africa and the Middle East at the United Nations Ofcefor Project Services (UNOPS) from 2010-2012, sheled national and international teams in implementingprojects for the United Nations system, internationalnancial institutions, governments and other partners in

world aid.Ms. Serour holds a PhD in Political Economy and an

M.A. in International Relations from the University of Aberdeen. She is uent in French, Arabic and English.


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NAVANETHEM PILLAYSouth Africa

CATHERINE SAMBA-PANZACentral African Republic

The appointment of „Navi“ Pillay as UNHigh Commissioner for Human Rights wasapproved by the General Assembly on28 July 2008 and she held the post until31 August 2014 after her mandate wasrenewed for two years in 2012.

Ms. Pillay, a South African national, was the rst womanto start a law practice in her home province of Natal in1967. Over the next few years, she acted as a defenceattorney for anti-apartheid activists, exposing torture, andhelping establish key rights for prisoners on Robben Island.

She also worked as a lecturer at the University ofKwaZulu-Natal, and was later appointed Vice-Presidentof the Council of the University of Durban Westville. In 1995,after the end of apartheid, Ms. Pillay was appointed asacting judge of the South African High Court, and in thesame year was elected by the UN General Assembly tosit as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal forRwanda (ICTR), where she served a total of eight years,the last four (1999-2003) as President. She played acritical role in the ICTR‘s groundbreaking jurisprudenceon rape as genocide, as well as on issues of freedom ofspeech and hate propaganda.

In 2003, she was appointed as a judge of theInternational Criminal Court in The Hague, where sheserved in the Appeals Chamber until August 2008. In

April 2015, Ms. Pillay became the 16th Commissioner ofthe International Commission against the Death Penalty.She was also named chair of the Special Reference Groupon Migration and Community Integration in KwaZulu-Natal, a group formed to investigate the immediate andunderlying causes of attacks on migrants.

In South Africa, as a member of the Women‘sNational Coalition, she contributed to the inclusion of

the equality clause in the country’s Constitution thatprohibits discrimination on grounds of race, gender,religion and sexual orientation. She co-founded EqualityNow, an international women‘s rights organisation, andhas been involved with other organisations working onissues relating to children, detainees, victims of tortureand domestic violence, and a range of economic,social and cultural rights.

Ms. Pillay holds a B.A. LL.B. from Natal University South Africa, as well as a Master of Law and Doctorate ofJuridical Science from Harvard University. She was bornin 1941, and has two daughters.

Catherine Samba-Panza was electedpresident of the Central African Republicin January 2014 by members of theNational Transitional Council, the interimparliament, making her the rst womanto hold the post.

Between June 2013 and January 2014, she was appointed the mayor of Bangui by the interimgovernment after she was accepted by both the

Seleka rebels and their opponents during the 2012-2013 conict due to her reputation for neutrality andincorruptibility.

A successful businesswoman and corporate lawyer,she has also been active in reconciliation efforts andcivil society organisations, promoting women‘s rights.

Her successor, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, formallytakes ofce on 25 March 2016.

ABDUL TEJAN-COLESierra Leone

Abdul Tejan-Cole is Executive Directorof the Open Society Initiative for West

Africa (OSIWA). Prior to his appointment,

Mr. Tejan-Cole served as Commissionerof the Anti-Corruption Commission inSierra Leone, from December 2007 to

April 2010.His previous positions include: Attorney at the Special

Court for Sierra Leone; Deputy Director for the InternationalCentre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), Cape Town Ofce;and President of the Sierra Leone Bar Association.

Mr. Tejan-Cole also has extensive experience working with the Open Society Institute (OSI). He served as BoardChair of OSIWA from 2002-2007, and has also servedas a member of the Board of the Open Society JusticeInitiative (OSJI).


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