Children's Rights Advocate - standing up for human rights
After witnessing firsthand the horrors of Sierra Leone's civil war, seeing children forced to become soldiers and commit violent acts, Mohamed Pa-Momo Fofanah advocates for children's rights and promotes legal reform in a country emerging from a brutal civil conflict, economic collapse and a fractured government. In addition to providing free legal counsel to children and the indigent, Pa-Momo has helped reform the juvenile judicial system keeping children out of adult prisons and establishing a monitoring system in detention facilities.