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Child abuse Management Challenges and Successes – Lessons from Different Countries’.

Child abuse management challenges and successes – lessons from Australia and UK

 Dr John AM Gall 

BSc (Hons)(Qld), MB, BS, PhD (Melb), FFFLM (RCP Lond), FFCFM (RCPA), RCPathME,  DMJ (Clin & Path) 

Consultant Forensic Physician

 Governor, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Trust

Medical Examiner, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Expert Witness Lead, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Director, Southern Medical Services Pty Ltd

Director, Justice Medica Ltd

Child abuse management challenges and successes: lessons from Thailand

Dr. Anirut Worawat

MD, MSc (Health Science Education)

Deputy Director of Strategy and Planning, Phrapokklao Hospital, Thailand

Child abuse management challenges and successes – lessons from India

Prof. (Dr.) Adarsh Kumar

BSc, MBBS, MD, PGCHM, FIAMLE, FISCA,FIST, FIAFM

Double Commonwealth Fellow, Dundee, Scotland UK

Professor, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology

AIIMS, New Delhi-110029 INDIA

Child abuse management challenges and successes – lessons from Sri Lanka

Prof P. Anuruddhi S. Edirisinghe

MBBS(NCMC), MD(For Med, Col), DLM(Col), DMJ(Lond), FFFLM(UK) 

Senior Professor, Cadre Chair

Department of Forensic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Univeristy of Kalaniya 

Keynote speech of the 

3rd International Conference of CGSUK 

Human Rights Violation of Woman in India: 

Journey from Womb to Tomb from Forensic Perspective

Prof. Adarsh Kumar, is currently a Professor, Forensic Medicine & Toxicology at AIIMS,New Delhi and has been awarded the Commonwealth Fellowship in the UK, twice, in 2011 and 2015. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, IAMLE (2014), the International Science Congress Association (2015), the Indian Society of Toxicology (2016) and the Indian Academy of Forensic Medicine (2020). He is honorary medicolegal Expert to the National Human Rights Commission and the Central Bureau of Investigation, the topmost agency for criminal investigation in India. He has handled over a thousand complicated, high-profile cases. He has close to 30 years of teaching experience and medicolegal field work, both nationally and internationally (UK and Ukraine). He has published around a hundred papers, organized 15 National and International conferences, written 10 chapters in various textbooks, and has spoken at more than 100 lectures and delivered orations at various scientific conferences, locally and internationally. He is currently the Hony. President of Indian Academy of Medicolegal Experts (IAMLE). He has been honored by the National Human Rights Commission in 2014 and awarded with the Education Award for Excellence by the Indo-US Global Foundation in 2016, the International Cooperation Medal by the Government of Ukraine in 2020 and the Forensic Excellence Award in 2023.

4th  Oration of the Center for Gender Studies,
University of Kelaniya 2025

A Promethean Moment: Technology Facilitated Gender Based Violence and Coded Bias

Rangita de Silva de Alwis

Prof. Rangita de Silva de Alwis serves as Distinguished Faculty on Law and Global Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Wharton Business School. She is a globally recognized scholar on international human rights, women peace and security and has published in leading law reviews, including at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Berkeley, Duke, Georgetown, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge.

 She is also visiting faculty at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Law School Center for the Legal Profession.  She is the Hillary Rodham Clinton Distinguished Global Fellow on Gender Equity at Georgetown Institute for Women Peace and Security. She is a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University for 2023- 2025.  She is a member of the UN treaty body to the CEDAW, where she serves as the Chair of the individual complaints and Co-Chair of Women Peace and Security. 

She is the Vice Chair of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Council where she serves with some of the world’s leading international lawyers. She is also on the advisory council to the President of the UN General Assembly and Co-chair of the high-level working group on Global Gender Justice. 

She is a graduate of the faculty of law, University of Colombo and received her Master of Law and Doctorate in Law from Harvard Law School where she was recognized recently as a "Woman of Inspiration."