Mariana is a human rights practitioner with over 25 years experience in post conflict justice, including at the Rwanda Tribunal and Special Court for Sierra Leone, where she was a Legal Adviser. More recently she was Head of Programmes at Aegis Trust, and before that Deputy Director of REDRESS, where she had also been its Post Conflict Justice Adviser working on transitional justice cases and projects with affected communities in DRC, Northern Uganda, Kenya, Central African Republic. Mariana taught Public Int'l Law and International Criminal Law at the London School of Economics while undertaking doctoral research. She is co-editor of 'Reparations for Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity' 2009, 2019 (2nd ed.), Brill / Nijdorf. She holds an LLM from London School of Economics and an LLB from Kin's College London.

Najlaa is a British/Sudanese human rights lawyer, formerly Acting Executive Director for Sudanese Rights Group as well as Human Rights Officer and Consultant for the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies where she specifically investigated torture in Sudan. Najlaa has further experience working at Human Rights Watch researching Sudanese women human rights defenders and at REDRESS as their Sudan Project Officer,  coordinating their Criminal Laws Reform project and Prohibition of Torture in Sudan. 

A South Sudanese human rights lawyer and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, Victoria worked at the International Center for Transitional Justice Programmes department and on counter-terrorism, human rights education and victim participation in criminal cases amongst others. She has an LLM from Columbia Law School where she was a Human Rights Fellow. Currently the Legal Associate and Policy Officer at Rights for Peace, focusing on Sudan and South Sudan projects on CRSV and countering identity based violence in various contexts.

Ciara is a legal practitioner and researcher specialised in international criminal law, human rights and transitional justice. She has published research and worked on advocacy issues related to accountability and reparation for sexual and gender-based violence, and has previously worked as a researcher and lecturer in international law at Leiden University and on protection issues at the ICRC. She holds a PhD and an Advanced LLM from Leiden University and an MSc in international relations from the University of Edinburgh.

Michelle is a senior Finance Officer with substantial charity finance and human resources experience having been Head of Finance and HR at Redress Trust (UK) for over 10 years.

Clara has almost a decade of experience as a photographer in the creative industries, as well as working as a specialist university lecturer. She contributes to the management of the website and of our social media platforms, and assists with the publication of our blogs and newsletters. 

Mariama is an accounting and finance graduate from the University of Hertfordshire.  Alongside working for Rights for Peace, she is currently training to be a chartered accountant.