Lou Suamen
Visiting Research Fellow
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Department:
Visiting Research Fellows
- Research strand: In the public interest: accountability of the state and the prosecution of crimes
- Main fields of interest: Access to Justice Children's Rights International Criminal Law
Profile
Lou Suamen is the 2024 Asser Shelter City Fellow. She is a children's rights advocate who has over a decade of hands-on and grassroot experience on the promotion of children's rights and documenting children's rights violations such as but not limited to extrajudicial killings and torture.
She works with national networks and local non-governmental organisations on human rights and children’s rights in the Philippines, and is currently a national coordinator and researcher for a local human rights network that advocates against grave human rights violations in the Philippines and supports victims in their pursuit for justice and accountability via either domestic or international justice mechanisms.
Lou is passionate about children's access to justice, accountability of grave children’s rights violations, juvenile justice, harm reduction in the approach to drug law and policy, and the realisation of the rights of children in street situations .
She has a Masters Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from Mahidol University in Thailand and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in Silliman University in the Philippines.