Arab League

Dr. Horeya Megahed

Horeya Megahed is a member of the Hoda Charawi Association, Egypt. Dr. of Political Science with a career in academia at Cairo University, appointment to the Supreme Administrative Court of the State Council and author of numerous publications.

Council of Europe

Heleen Jansen - main representative

Heleen Jansen is a Dutch national now living in France. She worked for over 25 years as a professor of  French and teacher training in the Netherlands. She was also involved in student care and in health education. The last 15 years she has been active as author and editor-in-chief of new educational methods and materials. Part of these activities always has been the development of materials for European projects, mostly centred on democratic citizenship and human rights education.She is vice-chairman of the Dutch section of the AEDE, the European Teachers Association. As a representative of the AEDE in the ONG conference of the Council of Europe, she has been an active member of the working group ‘Gender Perspectives in Democratic and Political Processes’ chaired by Anje Wiersinga.

Monique Bouchet - alternate

Dr. Laoura Maria Alipranti-Maratou - alternate

Laoura Maria Alipranti-Maratou is alternate representative at UN Geneva.

Renée Gérard - alternate

European Women's Lobby

Marion Böker - delegate and Board member of EWL

Marion Böker is the founder and director of Consultancy for Human Rights & Gender Issues, Berlin, since 2004 . She works as a consultant on international, regional, and local level for the implementation of human rights of individuals and groups by interventions, campaigns, or complaints under the UN Human Rights Treaties. She provides expertise for Civil Society Organizations, administration and politics and serves as an expert on the implementation of Gender Budgeting. She has a focus on the UNSCR 1325 “Women, Peace and Security” and offers capacity building trainings for human rights and peace activists. 

Lea Börgerding - alternate

Gulf Cooperation Council

Dr. Horeya Megahed

Horeya Megahed is a member of the Hoda Charawi Association, Egypt. Dr. of Political Science with a career in academia at Cairo University, appointment to the Supreme Administrative Court of the State Council and author of numerous publications.

International Criminal Court

Maitre Paulette Oyane Ondo

Paulette Oyane Ondo is a lawyer at the Bar of Gabon. She is a human rights defender and Expert to the African Union in human rights, democracy, election and governance. She created the first human rights NGO in Gabon: The Center for the Promotion of Democracy and the Defense of Human Rights (CDDH). In 2013 she received the Human Rights Prize for Central Africa from the Pan-African Network of Human Rights Defenders.

Diedre Pierro

Deirdre Pirro is an international lawyer. She has been the International Relations Officer with the International Court of the Environment Foundation (ICEF) since its inception. Her role is to coordinate ICEF’s Organising Committees throughout the world which lobby for the creation of the Court, to assist in the preparation of its international and national conferences and help in the production of its documentation and in editing of its numerous publications. She also write a monthly column called The Final Say for The Florentine, an English-language newspaper.

Washington Working Group on the International Criminal Court

Susanne Riveles

Peace Activist, specialist in and lecturer on African affairs.