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Anita GOH
Anita Goh works as the Advocacy Officer of Child Rights Connect, a nonprofit network of 82 national, regional and international child rights
organisations and coalitions, since 2009. She coordinated the NGO
campaign for the drafting, adoption and ratification of the third Optional
Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications
procedure (OP3 CRC). In particular, she participated to the draf-ting
of provisions of the OP3 CRC and subsequent rules of procedure and
working methods of the Committee on the Rights of the Child rela-ted
to the best interests of the child.

She also provided suggestions and

comments during the drafting of the Committee’s General Comment No.
14 (2013) and coordinated advocacy on the issue of the “protection of the
family” at the UN Human Rights Council.

Urszula MARKOWSKA-MANISTA
A Ph.D, assistant professor at the Pedagogy Institute, scientific secretary
at the J.Korczak UNESCO Chair  of Interdisciplinary Studies on Child
Development and Wellbeing, Chair of Basic Education, Academy of
Special Education in Warsaw. Lectures (as a co-operating lecturer) on the
problem of children’s everyday life and children’s rights in a multicultural
perspective at the Freie  University Berlin (Department of Educati