Acknowledgements The Advisory Council of Jurists thanks its President, Justice Anthony Gates, for his skilful chairmanship of the Jurists at its meeting. The Jurists were greatly aided at the meeting in their deliberations and analysis by Dr Sheldon Shaeffer, Director, UNESCO’s Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education; Mr Johan Lindberg, Associate Expert, Education and Human Rights, UNESCO (Thailand); Mr Stephen Clark, APF Secretariat; Mr John K Johnson, Columbia Law School; and Mr Robert Hesketh, Director, Office of Human Rights Proceedings, New Zealand. The Jurists also wish to acknowledge the able and expert assistance of the staff of the Fiji Human Rights Commission, including Mr Usaia Ratuvili, Ms Deveena Sudhakar-Herman, Ms Sova Colavanua and Ms Vanessa Chang. The Jurists would like to express their sincere gratitude to Ms Maria Herminia Graterol, Visiting Research Associate, Australian Human Rights Centre of the University of New South Wales and Mr Stephen Clark, Project Manager, APF Secretariat, for the background paper provided to the Council for its consideration. Valuable assistance was also provided by Mr Kieren Fitzpatrick, Director, and Mr John K Johnson, Columbia Law School Scheuer Fellow, APF Secretariat. The Jurists are grateful to the MacArthur Foundation for the financial support it provided for the preparation of the background paper and the meeting of the Council in Suva. Finally, the Advisory Council would like to acknowledge Justice Susan Glazebrook and the New Zealand Court of Appeal clerks and interns Claire McGuinness, Christine Watkins, Katarina Boras, Torge Keck and Jane Standage for their work on drafting the final answers to the questions in the terms of reference, to Associate Professor Andrea Durbach for her work on the Appendices and Mr Stephen Clark for his tireless efforts in his work on the country reports and collating the final report. 6