National, Regional and Thematic Consultations for the Global Study I would like to thank the Governments of Thailand, Ethiopia, South Africa and Uruguay for having hosted consultations in the framework of the Global Study. Detention of Children in Social Welfare Institutions (Committee of Ministers of the CoE), September 2017, Prague, Czech Republic: Hana JAMRICHOVÁ (Czech Chairmanship). Human Dimension Seminar on the Rights of the Child (OSCE), October 2017, Warsaw, Poland: Jürgen HEISSEL, Julia HAAS, Victoria SCHMID and Stephanie SELG. EU Forum on the Rights of the Child (EC), November 2017, Brussels, Belgium: Margaret TUITE and Thomas FORSTER. Regional Consultation for South East Asia (ASEAN / Thai Ministry of Justice), May 2018, Bangkok, Thailand: Grace C. AGCAOILI, Kattiya RATANADILOK Wimolrat RATCHUKOOL, Anchalee ARAMRUN, Valerie WAYTE, Emma DAY, Nicola BRANDT, Gary RISSER, Selvi SUPRAMANIAM, Vanna LIM, Teona ASLANASHVILI, Noriko IZUMI, Santi SIRITHEERAJESD, Natcha CHUTINTHARARUK and Paisit PUSITTRAKUL. High Level Event at the World Congress on Juvenile Justice (AIMJF / CRIN / DCI / IGO / PRI / TdH / UNESCO), May 2018, Paris, France: Cedric FOUSSARD, Kristen HOPE, Taghreed JABER, Avril CALDER, Fabrice CREGUT and Marie DUPRET. Regional Consultation for the African Continent (ACPF), May 2018, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Sarah GUEBREYES, Eskedar BEYENE, Meskerem Geset TECHANE, Idriss KANE, Alex KAMAROTOS, Anna D. TOMASI, Benoit VAN KEIRSBILCK and Helen GRIFFITHS. Thematic Consultation on Deprivation of Liberty of Children in Institutions (Centre for Child Law/UP) July 2018, Pretoria, South Africa: Ann SKELTON, Zita HANSUNGULE and Lesley DU TOIT. National Consultation with Serbian Institutions (Belgrade Centre for Human Rights), September 2018, Belgrade, Serbia: Programme Director Vesna PETROVIC. National Consultation with United States based NGOs (Justice Lab, Columbia University), October 2018, New York, United States: Jo BECKER, Anna DARLING, Helen GRIFFITHS, Elizabeth CLARKE, Ian KYSEL, Liz RYAN & Robert SCHWARTZ Regional Consultation for the Mercosur Region (MERCOSUR), October 2018, Montevideo, Uruguay: Juan FUMEIRO, Juan Miguel PETIT and Mary BELOFF. Regional Consultation for the Arabic-speaking MENA Region (OMCT), November 2018, Tunis, Tunisia: Gabriele REITER, Mohamed MZEM, Safa ECHTIOUI, Saida MBAREK and George ABADJIAN. XXI