Draft Participants List

April 5, 2004

CONVENERS

Zachary Lomo, Director, Refugee Law Project-Uganda

Lucy Hovil, Director, Research and Advocacy Department, Refugee Law Project-Uganda

Pamela Reynell, Coordinator, Africa NGO Refugee Protection Network

Abi Gitari, Board Member, African NGO Refugee Protection Network

Judy Wakahiu, Executive Director, Refugee Consortium of Kenya

Eva Ayiera, Refugee Consortium of Kenya

Dr. Sifuni Mchome, Centre for the Study of Forced Migration, University of Dar es Salaam

Deirdre Clancy, Director, International Refugee Program, Human Rights First

Dismas Nkunda, Africa Coordinator, International Refugee Program, Human Rights First



LOCAL NGO's

Burundi

Ancilla Ndahigeze, Coordinatrice du CAFOB, Collectif des Association et ONG Feminines du Burundi

Jean-Richard Bigirimana, Coordinateur du programme monitoring du repatriement, Ligue Iteka


Democratic Republic of Congo

Maître Georges B. Kapiamba, Directeur chargé des enquêtes, recherches et protection, ASADHO/KATANGA,

Jean Baptiste Mulengezi, Groupe Jeremie


Kenya

Martin K. Mbugua, Program Officer, Monitoring and Research, The Kenya Human Rights Commission.


Republic of Congo

Roger Bouka Owoko, Directeur Exécutif, L'Observatoire Congolais des Droits de l'Homme


Rwanda

Apophia Kabuni Twiine, Faculty of Law, National University of Rwanda*


Sudan

Manal Mohammed Abdel Halim, Mutawinat Group, Sudan


Tanzania

Duanne Poppe, Director, Tanganyika Christian Refugee Service


Uganda

Martin Masiga, HURINET
Geoffrey Mangwi, Sudan Human Rights Association (based in Uganda)


Zambia

Geoffrey Mulenga, Lecturer Faculty of Law, University of Zambia



INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Norbert Mao, AMANI Great Lakes Parliamentary Group

Darius Ellis, Country Director, HIAS Refugee Trust of Kenya

Sarah Oppenheim, Associate Director of International Operations, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society

Joel Frushone, Africa Policy Analyst, US Committee for Refugees*

Joel Harding, Refugee Protection Programme Manager, International Rescue Committee, Tanzania

Rosemarie M. McNairn, PhD, Programme Representative/Representante de Programme, Oxfam-Rwanda

Sadikh Niass, Coordinator, WARIPNET

Manisha Thomas, Humanitarian Affairs Officer, ICVA - International Council of Voluntary Agencies

Mary Ann Stein, the Mariah Fund/the Global Fund for Human Rights

William Mutunga, Program Office, Ford Foundation East Africa


INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

Valerie Juilland, Head of Office, Regional Support Office for Central and East Africa

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),

Mr. Fall, Special Representative UN Secretary General for the Great Lakes region

Abdel-Rahman Ghandour, Special Assistant to Special Representative of UN Secretary General for the Great Lakes region,

Wairimu Karago, Regional Coordinator. Great Lakes Operation, UNHCR

Leonard Zulu, Executive Assistant to Regional Coordinator, Great Lakes Operation, UNHCR

France Lau, Burundi Office, UNHCR*

Fatoumata Sinkou-Kaba, DRC Office, UNHCR

Chrysanthus Ache, Representative, Tanzania Office, UNHCR*

Mr. Kalunga Lutato, UNHCR Representative in Rwanda, Branch Office Kigali, UNHCR

Cynthia Burns, Country Representative for Uganda, UNCHR*

Ibrahima Wani, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights *

Fiona Adolu, African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights*


EXPERTS

Dr. Bonaventure Rutinwa, Senior Lecturer, University of Dar es Salaam,

Dr. Chaloka Beyani, London School of Economics,

Chidi Odinkalu, Open Society Institute

Barbara Harrell Bond, Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Center, American University Cairo

Joe Oloka Onyango, Faculty of Law, Makerere University

Professor John Okumu, Center for Refugee Studies, Moi University

Dr. Makumi Mwagiru, Director of Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies, University of Nairobi

Mr. Jackson Ochana, Alternate National Coordinator, International Conference on the Great Lakes Region



* Invited, subject to confirmation.