Fidan Abdullayeva has 11 years of practical experience working with local and national government actors in the field of children’s rights based on UNCRC and UN Guidelines on Alternative Care, on child development, education policy, international humanitarian law, gender equality, violence against women, trafficking in human beings. She has hands-on expertise in working with relevant actors to achieve policies implementation in the different areas of promotion of children rights as the Programme Development Director of the SOS Children’s Villages. Being an advisory board member from Azerbaijan Republic of WAVE Network, Austria together with a team she has worked on the special paper on child’s rights during the custody process to present during the Colloquium on Fundamental Rights in Brussels in November 2017.