Kathryn (Kate) E. van Doore is an international children’s rights lawyer and an academic at Griffith Law School, Australia. Kate currently researches the intersections of child rights, institutionalisation and human trafficking. Kate’s work includes publishing the first legal argument under international law for the active recruitment of children from their biological families into orphanages to be regarded as a form of child trafficking. She is a co-founder of Forget Me Not Australia and Born to Belong Foundation, both international non-governmental organizations focused on child protection and family reunification for children residing outside of parental care; a Steering Group member of the Better Volunteering, Better Care Global Working Group; and a Steering Committee member of ReThink Orphanages Australia. Kate was the recipient of the 2017 Australian Anti-Slavery Freedom Award recognising her research contribution to the issue of orphanage trafficking.

Rebecca Nhep is the Joint CEO of ACCI Relief and Co-Chair of the ReThink Orphanages Australia.  Rebecca has 17 years experience working in alternative care and care reform, and is responsible for ACCI Relief’s care reform program, Kinnected, which operates in 11 countries. Rebecca is on the executive of the Better Volunteering, Better Care, a global initiative addressing the issue of orphanage tourism. In 2016 Rebecca co-founded ReThink Orphanages, an Australia cross sector network which has taken a lead role in working with Government and members of Parliament to address orphanage trafficking and orphanage tourism through the proposed Modern Slavery Act and other recommended regulatory measures.  Prior to her current role with ACCI Relief, Rebecca spent 11 years in Cambodia where she was also involved in establishing Children in Families, a Cambodian NGO providing family-based alternative care, family preservation reintegration and community-based disability support services. Rebecca holds post graduate degrees in International Development, and Anthropology.