MEETING OF STATES PARTIES

Twenty-seventh meeting

New York

4 September 2008

ELECTION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 28 TO 32 OF THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS,OF NINE MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO REPLACE THOSE WHOSE TERMS ARE DUE TO EXPIRE ON 31 DECEMBER 2008

Note by the Secretary-General

1.In conformity with articles 30, paragraph 4, and 32 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the 27th meeting of States parties to the Covenant will be convened by the Secretary-General at United Nations Headquarters on Thursday, 4 September 2008, for the purpose of electing nine members of the Human Rights Committee from a list of persons nominated by States parties (annex I) to replace those whose terms are due to expire on 31 December 2008(annex II). The names of the other nine members who will continue to serve on the Committee until 31 December 2010 appear in annex III.

2.In accordance with article 30, paragraph 2, and article 34 of the Covenant, the Secretary‑General, in a note verbale dated 14 February 2008, invited the States parties to submit, in conformity with article 29 of the Covenant, their nominations for the election of nine members of the Committee within three months, i.e. by 14 May 2008.

3.Annex IV contains the curricula vitae of the persons whose nominations had been received by the secretariat by the end of day, 14 May 2008. Nominations received after this date will be issued in addenda to the present document.

Annex I

list of candidates nominated by states parties

Name of candidate	Nominated by
Mr. Mohammed AYAT	Morocco
Mr. Ahmad Amin FATHALLA	Egypt
Mr. Majed Fayad	Lebanon
Mr. Maurice Glèlè AhaNhanzo	Benin
Mr. Edwin JOHNSON LÓPEZ	Ecuador
Mr. Rajsoomer LALLAH	Mauritius
Mr. Michael O’FLAHERTY	Ireland
Mr. Riccardo Pisillo MAZZESCHI	Italy
Mr. Rafael RIVAS POSADA	Colombia
Sir Nigel Rodley	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Mr. Fabian Omar SALVIOLI	Argentina
Mr. Krister Thelin	Sweden
Ms. Elisabeth Zakharia Sioufi	Lebanon

Annex II

LIST OF THE NINE MEMBERS WHOSE TERMS EXPIRE ON 31 dECEMBER 2008

Name of candidate	Nominated by
Mr. Maurice Glèlè Ahanhanzo	Benin
Mr. Edwin Johnson lÓpez	Ecuador
Mr. Ahmed Tawfik Khalil	Egypt
Mr. Rajsoomer LALLAH	Mauritius
Mr. Michael O’Flaherty	Ireland
Ms. Elisabeth Palm	Sweden
Mr. Rafael Rivas Posada	Colombia
Sir Nigel Rodley	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Mr. Ivan Shearer	Australia

Annex III

list of the nine members who will continue to serveon the committee until 31 December 2010

Mr. Abdelfattah Amor	Tunisia
Mr. Prafullachandra N. Bhagwati	India
Ms. Christine Chanet	France
Mr. Yuji Iwasawa	Japan
Mr. Walter Kälin	Switzerland (vacant)
Ms. Zonke Zanele Majodina	South Africa
Ms. Iulia Antoanella Motoc	Romania
Mr. José Luis PÉREZ SAnchez-Cerro	Peru
Ms. Ruth Wedgwood	United States of America

Annex IV

curricula vitae of candidates *

Mohammed AYAT

(Morocco)

Date and place of birth:1 January 1950, Rabat (Morocco)

Working languages:French/Arabic/English

Current position/function

Senior Legal Adviser in the Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (1997 to date, more than 10 years)

Professor of Law at Mohammed V University, Faculty of Law, Rabat (from 1979 to date, currently on leave of absence)

Main professional activities

Attorney at Law before the Moroccan Supreme Court (belonging to Rabat Bar Association)

Former Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law, Fes, from 2 February 1987 to 31 March 1991 (more than 4 years)

Former Head of Private Law Department(10 years, elected position, each term twoyears’ mandate)

Judge and subsequently, Deputy Prosecutor (from 1971 to 1975 (4 years))

Deputy Inspector of Finance (Ministry of Finance) (1968 to 1971 (3 years))

Legal consultation to the Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science in Syracusa, Italy

Legal consultation to the DePaul University, Institute of Human Rights, Chicago

Consultation to Geneva Initiative, Netherlands

Consultation to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Consultation to the Conseil consultatif des droits de l’homme (Morocco)

Consultation and expertise to the Ministry of Justice of Morocco (on Moroccan penal reforms)

Educational background

Doctorat d’État en droit (mention très honorable) (PhD in Law withhighest distinction), Université des sciences sociales, Faculté de droit, Toulouse, France, June 1979

Diplôme d’études approfondies en Sciences criminelles (Master in Criminal Justice), Université des sciences sociales, Faculté de droit, Toulouse, France, 1976

Diplôme d’études approfondies en Sociologie (Master in Sociology), Université Toulouse le Mirail, Toulouse, France, 1982

Certificat d’aptitude à la profession d’avocat, 1970

Diplôme de formation de l’Institut des études judiciaires à Rabat, 1971

Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned

I attended a multitude of national and international conferences in several countries (notably at Syracusa, Italy, at the International Institute of Criminal Science and constantly cooperated with Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni, President of the Association internationale de droit penal, and at Oxford, Cable College).

I am periodically solicited by the IBA (International Bar Association) to train lawyers. I notably did this in Uganda, in the Arab world (Dubai) and in the United Kingdom (London and Stratford).

I am contributing to training Rwandan prosecutors on international criminal law and justice (training organized by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda funded by the European Union).

I collaborated in the discussion of the drafting of the Transitional Code for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice to give insight on the position of Arab and Islamic law.

I am cooperating with a group of experts in drafting a code for post-conflict justice based on Chicago Principles, sponsored by the Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science in Syracusa, Italy, and St. Paul Chicago University.

I am currently representing the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda before the Rwandan Government and the diplomatic community accredited in Rwanda. I am also occasionally mandated by the Prosecutor to represent him in international forums. Lately I represented him in Washington, D.C., at the American University, Washington College of Law in a forum on fugitives.

I am also member of several national and international legal associations and amongst the founders of some of the associations in Morocco.

List of most recent publications in the field

Manuel de procédure pénale (tome I), Babel Éditions, Rabat, 1991 (312 p.) (in Arabic)

Manuel de procédure pénale (tome II), Babel Éditions, Rabat, 1991 (330 p.) (in Arabic)

“À la recherche des racines biopsychologiques du crime”, Savoir criminologique, Collection (publiée sous la direction de Mohammed Ayat) No. 3, Éditions AlmaarifAl Jadida, Rabat, 1998 (208 p.)

“Le crime”, Savoir criminologique, Collection (publiée sous la direction de Mohammed Ayat) No. 1, Éditions EnnajahAlJadida, Casablanca, 1997 (126 p.) (in French)

“Crime et société”, Savoir criminologique Collection (publiée sous la direction de Mohammed Ayat) No. 2, Éditions Almaarif Al Jadida, Rabat, 1997 (192 p.) (in French)

Cours de terminologie juridique,Textbook, 1995 (190 p.)(in French)

Droit pénal marocain,Textbook, 1997(180 p.)(in Arabic)

Articles

Around 60 articles published in national and international specialized law journals, most of them written in Arabic or French. Some are written in English

“Transitional Justice: the Moroccan Experience of the Equity and Reconciliation Instance”, sent to the Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences in Syracusa, November 2007, to be published by the Institute in Revue internationale de droit pénal

“Justice internationale pour la paix et la réconciliation”, International Criminal Law Review, TheHague, 2006, vol. 7, 2007, pp. 391-424 (in French)

“Direct Application of International Criminal Law in National Courts” (book review),International Criminal Law Review, The Hague, 2006, pp. 303-306 (in English)

“Le droit de l’accusé d’être informé des faits qu’on lui reproche et de leur qualification juridique aux tribunaux pénaux ad hoc des Nations Unies”, Revue de droit international de sciences diplomatiques et politiques, Genève, vol. 79, No. 3 (septembre-décembre 2001), pp. 303-338 (in French)

“Immunity of Heads of States in Office in International Criminal Justice”, participation au Colloque “Terrorisme et responsabilité pénale internationale”, 5 février 2002, organisé par S.O.S. ATTENTATS à l’Assemblée nationale française (in French)

“UniversalJurisdictionbetweenMoroccanPenal Law and International Conventions”in Crimes internationaux et juridictions nationales, collectif publié sous la direction de Antonio Cassese et Mireille Delmas-Marty, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, mai 2002, p. 417-434. Alsopublished in Les conventions internationales et la loi interne à travers la jurisprudence, Centre de documentation d’information et de formation en droits de l’homme, Rabat, 2002 (article in French)

“Le silence prend la parole: émergence du droit au silence en droit comparé et en droit international pénal”in Revue de Science criminelle et de droit pénal comparé, décembre 2002 (in French)

“Silence is Golden: The Right to RemainSilent in International Criminal Law”, Revue de droit international de sciences diplomatiques et politiques, Genève, vol. 79, No. 3 (septembre-décembre 2001), pp. 303-338 (in English)

“Independence of the Judiciary in Morocco”, Revue marocaine de sciences administratives, premier semestre 2000, pp. 2-9 (in Arabic)

“Crime and Society: Conflicts of Cultures Theory”, Revue de la Police nationale, No. 205 (2000) (in French)

“La criminologie sociologique du passage à l’acte criminel: théorie de l’association différentielle”, Revue de la Police nationale, 40e année, No. 202 (2000) (in French)

“Crime is a Relative Notion”, Revue de la Police nationale,No. 201 (2000) (in French)

“Social Criminology”, Revue de la Sûreté nationale, No. 200 (1999) (in French)

“The Roots of Violence”, Revue de la Sûreté nationale, No. 199 (1999) (in French)

“The Features of Crime”, Revue de la Police nationale, No. 197 (jan.-fév. 1999) (in French)

“International Cooperation and the Fight against Organized Crime”in a Colloquium on Organized Crime,Onãti, Spain, 3-6 June 1997, published in Al Ichaa Kénitra, Morocco, 1998 (inFrench)

“Introduction to an Understanding of Criminal Behaviour”, Revue de la Sûreté nationale, No. 198 (1998) (in French)

“Testimony in Moroccan Penal Procedure” in Revue de la Sûreté nationale, No. 190 (1997)(in Arabic)

“Reflection on Acquittal Based on Doubt”, Al moulhak alkadai, No. 32, April 1997, pp. 75-78(in Arabic)

“Psychiatry and Criminology”, Al moulhak alkadai, No. 32, April 1997, pp. 3-7 (in French)

“Book Review of Pr. Amzazi’s Book: La peine” in Al Ichaa, No. 15, January 1997, pp. 61-67 (inArabic)

“Opening Report of the Colloquium ‘Procedure before Administrative Courts’”, Revue marocaine de l ’ administration et du développement local, No. 9, septembre 1996, pp. 11-14 (in Arabic)

“The Protection and assistance provided to former detainees”, Al moulhak alkadai, No. 31, June 1996, pp.23-37 (in Arabic)

“Reflection on Fair Trial”, Published in Al Alam, 29 June and 11 July 1996, and in Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki, 30 June 1996. Also published in Al Ichaa, No. 15, January 1997(in Arabic)

“Defence Lawyer’s Role during the Interview of Suspects by the Prosecutor: in Light of the 30/12/1991 Reform”,Al Ichaa, 7th year, No. 13, December 1995, pp. 105-116 (in Arabic)

“Outline of the Moroccan Criminal Justice System”, paper presented at Saint Cloud State University (Minnesota, United States) (in English)

“Articulation de la responsabilité pénale dans les jugements du TPIR” (to be published by the Institute of Strategic Studies, Amman) (in French)

Mr. Ahmad Amin FATHALLA

(Egypt)

Date and place of birth:25 November 1952,Cairo, Egypt

Working languages:French, English, Arabic

Current position/function

Ambassador of Egypt to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Governor of Egypt to the Common Fund for Commodities and representative of Egypt to the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Hague Conference on Private International Law.

Main professional activities

On home postings he worked mainly in the legal department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until he became Deputy Assistant Minister for Legal Affairs and then Assistant Minister for Multilateral Relations responsible for all United Nations matters. One of his main tasks was the preparation of Egypt’s reports to all United Nations and human rights bodies, as well as lectures and presentations on United Nations matters. He served in the Permanent Missions of Egypt in New York (Sixth Committee) and Geneva (Human Rights). He was a member of the Egyptian team for the Taba Arbitration. He represented Egypt in many United Nations legal forums and assumed the post of either chairman or vice-chairman of a number of committees or working groups of these United Nations bodies.

Issues: ECOSOC Charter, non-use of force, rights of the child, migrant workers corruption, disarmament etc.; chaired a number of Egyptian National Committees (ICC, law of the sea, etc.). He was a member of the Legislative Committee of the Egyptian Council for Motherhood and Childhood. He worked as the legal adviser for the Basel Convention (drafted the basic legal documents and provided legal assistance to the parties). He served as Ambassador of Egypt to Morocco and Turkey.

Educational background

Attended “Jésuites” school (French Language School) in Cairo (1958-1970)

BA in Law, Cairo University, 1974

Diploma in International Relations, Institut International d’AdministrationPublicParis, 1987

Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned

When he was serving at the legal department he was responsible for the preparation of the tworeports submitted by Egypt in 1984 and 2001 in accordance with article 40 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

He was responsible for the promotion of the obligations of the Covenant in different national authorities responsible for the implementation of the Covenant (Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Interior, etc.).

He was also responsible for the promotion of the rights and obligations stipulated in the Covenant through lectures and presentations delivered at several national institutions like the Egyptian Diplomatic Institute.

List of most recent publications in the field

He made a number of presentations which were published on different websites of international institutions. The latest was a presentation made in the Hague Forum for Judicial Expertise on 3 October 2007 entitled “The developmentand extension of international law:a need for a balanced approach”.It was published in the form of a legal article on the website of The Hague Forum.

Majed Fayad

(Lebanon)

Date and place of birth:29 November 1950,Saida (Lebanon)

Working languages:English, Arabic, French

Current position/function

Attorney at Law before the Lebanese courtssince 1983. Member of the council of the Beirut Bar Association since 2002, elected as a member for two consecutive terms. Representative of the Beirut Bar Association as a “judge” in the tribunal on matters concerning the work of attorneys at law and syndicate issues.

Main professional activities

Practising law before Lebanese courts, particularly on criminal issues, and constitutional matters. Representative of the Beirut Bar Association in the Sub-committee of the Commission for Administration and Justice of the Lebanese Parliament concerned with the review of the Lebanese criminal law, since 2003 until now, as well as representative of the Beirut Bar Association in other subcommittees reviewing various other laws, among them the rules of procedure of criminal trials.

Educational background

Licence in law (4 years), Lebanese University, Beirut, 1973-1974

Licence in Arabic literature, Lebanese University, Beirut, 1978 (Faculty of Education)

MA (aptitude)in Arabic literature, Lebanese University. Faculty of Education, 1979 (5 years).

United Nations Language Proficiency in English and French(New York)

Spanish courses at the United Nations

Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned

Representative of the Beirut Bar Association in the Committee on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the Lebanese Parliament, particularly on implementing the National Plan on Human Rights with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme. Assigned establishing member of the Committee on HumanRights andFundamental Freedoms in the Beirut Bar Association in 1996 and assigned member of the Committee until 2003, when elected as member of the council of the Beirut Bar to monitor issues concerning abducted and disappeared persons during the Lebanese civil war.

List of most recent publications in the field

“Lebanese Criminal Law, in the light of constitutional rules, and international treaties”, 2007

“Guarantees of fair international trial and Lebanese law problems”,2006

“Human rights in the Constitution and Lebanese laws”, 2002

“Relationship between associations and the Lebanese authority”, 2001

Maurice GLELE-AHANHANZO(Benin)

Born on:15 March 1934 at Zinvié (Benin, formerly Dahomey)

Family status:Married, four children

Mother tongues:Fon - Yoruba

Working languages:French - English

Professional Activities

(a)International official (UNESCO-Paris, 1961-1962) responsible for relations withFrench-speaking African States: Department of Relations with Member States

(b)International official in the General Secretariat of the African and Malagasy Union (Cotonou, Dahomey): Legal Adviser and Director of Inter-African Technical Cooperation (1962‑1963)

(c)Secretary-General of the Government, from May 1963 to December 1965 (successively under Presidents Maga, General Soglo, Apithy Ahomadegbe, Congacou Tahirou)

(d)Chargé de Mission in the Cabinet of General Soglo, the new Head of State […] of one of the drafters of the 1965 Constitution

(e)Head of the Public Assistance Legal Office in Paris (June 1966 to August 1967

(f)International official in UNESCO: Administrator of programmes for the study and dissemination of African cultures, Culture and Communication Sector (1967 to 1989), (Director of the Division for the Study of Cultures) head of project and coordinator of the UNESCO publication General History of Africa in eight volumes

(g)Tutor at the Paris Law Faculty (Panthéon-Assas) in international law and international institutions (under Professor Pinto) and administrative law (under Dean Vedel): 1967 to 1974

(h)Lecturer in the Department of Legal Studies and Economic Sciences at the University of Dahomey: Constitutional law and political institutions; Public international law from 1964 to 1989

(i)Lecturer at the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Department of Political Science and Legal Anthropology, from 1975 to 1993, visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Legal and Economic Sciences in Dakar (Senegal) and the National University of Benin, (1971-1989: Cotonou)

(j)Visiting lecturer at the International Academy of Constitutional Law, Tunis: “Monitoring the constitutionality of laws in Black Africa “, Tunis, 1986 and July 1992, “The constitution (State) and political parties: African political parties”

(k)Member of the Scientific Council and Vice-President of the Academy

(l)Member of the board of examiners for:

Agrégation examination in public law organized by France forCôte d’Ivoire (1980) in Paris, board, Professors Gérard Conac and Guy Feuer

First agrégation examination in public law and political science organized by the African and Malagasy Council on Higher Education (CAMES) in 1983

Chairman of the Board of Examiners, Public Law and Political Science Section, and Coordinator of all the boards (third CAMES examination): Dakar, November‑December 1987

(m)Staff member at UNESCO, from 1967-1992 (permanent appointment), Director of the Division of Cultural Studies and Policies, and since 1989, Director of the Office of International Standards and Legal Affairs (Legal Counsellor) in UNESCO; personal promotion to Assistant Director-General of UNESCO, Legal Counsellor, in 1992

(n)One of the drafters of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Dakar 1977, under the chairmanship of Judge Keba Mbaye)

(o)Co-Director with Mr. Conac and Mr. Gaudusson of La Justice en Afrique, Afrique Contemporaine series, La Documentation Française, Paris, December 1990

(p)Director of research and theses - member of many Ph.D examining boards in law, history and anthropology (Paris, Dakar)

(q)Chairman of the Constitutional Commission of Benin, and member of the High Council of the Republic (period of transitional government: 1 March 1990 to 1 April 1991)

(r)Vice-President of the High Council of the Republic sitting as the Constitutional Court (April 1991-June 1993)

(s)Member of the Committee of “eminent African personalities” entrusted by the Heads of State of West Africa with the revision of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) Treaty

(t)Member of the International Academy of Constitutional Law (Tunis): Vice-President and member of the French Comparative Law Society; member of the French Association for International Law

(u)Member of the Constitutional Court (Benin) (1993-2003)

(v)Member, Vice-President and President of the Administrative Tribunal of the African Development Bank (ADB)

(w)Member of the International Advisory Committee for the Culture of Peace and Non‑violence (UNESCO)

(x)Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on contemporary forms of racial discrimination and xenophobia and related intolerance, from 1993 to 2001, report submitted each year to the Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations General Assembly:

United States of America (1994)

Brazil (1995)

Germany (1995)

France (1995)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1995)

Colombia (1996)

Kuwait (1996)

South Africa (1998)

Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary (Roma issue 1999)

Term of office renewed in July 1999 for three years; played an active part in the preparations for and proceedings of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (2001)

In 2001 resigned from the post of Special Rapporteur, chaired the meeting of Rapporteurs and Special Representatives, Experts and Chairpersons of working groups of the special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights and of the advisory services programme which was held in Geneva from 18 to 22 June 2001

(y)Member of the Human Rights Committee since 14 September 2000, elected Vice‑Chairperson in 2004

(z)President of the High Court of Justice of Benin (2001-2003)

(aa)Member of the French Comparative Law Society

(bb)Member of the French Association for International Law

(cc)Member of the panel of the Nürnberg City International Human Rights Prize

(dd)Director of dissertations and theses at the UNESCO Chair of Human Rights (University of Abomey-Calavi), Chairman of the Institute of Human Rights and Promotion of Democracy: Democracy in Daily Life (IDH), and lecturer in IDH

(ee)Organized several seminars and scientific meetings in the context of IDH:

1.Voting methods and funding of electoral campaigns in a pluralist democracy (Cotonou, May 1994);

2.Voter education (seminar - Cotonou, January 1995);

3.Training seminar on the Presidential election (Cotonou, January 1996);

4.Human and citizens’ rights and duties: civic and ethical education at school (Cotonou, August 1996);

5.Application of article 40 of the Constitution of 1 December 1990 (seminar‑workshop Cotonou, August 1996);

6.Racial discrimination: International meeting of experts on all forms of discrimination based on racial or national origin or any other grounds, in South Africa and in the Sahara (Cotonou, June 1997 - in English and French);

7.Critical evaluation of the realization of the rights of the human person and the practice of democracy in Benin (colloquium - Cotonou, September 1998);

8.Human rights in question (Cotonou, December 1998);

9.Topicality and universality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (colloquium - Cotonou, December 1998) - “Rencontres No. 1” series;

10.Training seminar for the publicly owned and privately owned press on the new electoral code (seminar - Abomey, February 1999) - “Rencontres No. 2” series;

11.Benin and the international conventions on human rights (seminar - Cotonou, May 2002) - “Rencontres No. 3” series;

12.Training seminar in human rights, public freedoms and democracy for members of the uniformed forces of the member States of the Council of the Entente States (seminar - Cotonou, January 2005) - “Rencontres No. 4” series/Collection of international instruments on human rights and the protection of persons in detention or imprisonment (January 2005);

13.Meetings on constitutional and political practices in Africa : recent dynamic processes (International colloquium, (in cooperation with the International Organization of La Francophonie and the African Union) - Cotonou, 29-30 September and 1 October 2005).

Diplomas and university degrees

Baccalaureate (Classics A series: Latin and Greek)

Preparation for entrance into the grandes écoles (Lycée Louis-Le-Grand-Paris, 1956‑1958)

Diploma of the Ecole Nationale de la France d’Outre-Mer (class of 1958)

Bachelor of Law; Doctor of Law (1967)

Lecturer (agrégé), Faculties of Law (Public Law and Political Science: 1974 examination - Paris)

Works and publications

(a)Published works

(i)Naissance d ’ un État noir: l ’ évolution politique et constitutionnelle du Dahomey, de la colonisation à nos jours, Paris, L.G.D.J., 1968

(ii)“La République du Dahomey”, série Encyclopédie politique et constitutionnelle, Paris, Éditions Berger-Levraut, 1970

(iii)Le Danxome , du pouvoir Adja à la Nation Fon, Paris, Nubia, 1975

(iv)Religion, Culture et Politique en Afrique Noire, Paris, Economica, Présence africaine, 1981. Ouvrage couronné par l’Académie des Sciences d’Outre-mer (Prix M. Mme Louis Marin 982)

(v)Introduction à l ’ Organisation de l ’ Unité africaine et Organisations régionales africaines, Paris, L.G.D.J., 1986

(vi)“Le Vieillard et le Cocotier”, Les droits de l ’ homme à l ’ aube du XXI e siècle, Liber Amicorum de Karel Vasak, Brussels, Bruylant 1999

(vii)“Le Renouveau Constitutionnel du Bénin: une énigme ?”, Liber Amicorum de Michel Alliot, Paris, 1999

(viii)“Pour une culture de la démocratie”, Liber Amicorum de Federico Mayor, Brussels, Bruylant, 1995

(ix)United Nations (Geneva): “Un Zoulou au Palais Wilson” (Mélanges sur-le Comité des droits de l’homme de l’ONU, Geneva, 2005), Towards Implementing Universal Human Rights

(b)Miscellaneous studies

(i)Commentaire d’arrêt: note sous Conseil d’État 8 février 1967, Recueil Dalloz. Sirey du 14 février 1968; “Droit public disciplinaire: le secret fiscal peut-il être opposé à l’Administration?”

(ii)“Le recours contre une décision administrative négative” (doctrinal study), L ’ Actualité juridique: Droit administratif, 20 January 1970

(iii)“L’Administration, au-dessus de la loi?” (doctrinal study 1974, not published)

(iv)“Théorie et pratique des droits de l’homme dans l’Afrique contemporaine” (Colloque de Dakar sur l’Enseignement et la Recherche en Droit international, Dakar 11-13 December 1985)

(v)“La Commission africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples” (Colloque organisé par la Commission internationale de Juristes - Dakar 17-18 juillet 1987, rapport introductif)

(vi)“La Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples : ses virtualités et ses limites”, Revue de Droit africain (Association des Juristes africains) January-February-March 1985

(vii)“Pour une O.U.A. opérationnelle”, Revue juridique et politique - Indépendance et Coopération, No.3-4, 1985

(viii)“La Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples: spécificité et universalité”, Colloque: Justice et Paix, Cité du Vatican, Rome, November 1988

(c)Collective works

(i)Pour un droit des peuples, Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1978

(ii)“Le modèle constitutionnel français et son influence sur les États Africains liés à la France” La Politique africaine du Général de Gaulle (1958-69), Paris, Pedone, 1981

(iii)Joint editor (with Professor P.F. Gonidec) of volume I (l’État et le Droit: article: “la Constitution comme loi fondamentale”) of the Encyclopédie Juridique de l ’ Afrique, Paris, Nouvelles Éditions africaines, Istra, 1983

(iv)“La Charte africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples”, Mélanges C. A. Colliard, Paris, Pedone, 1984

(v)La Charte des Nations Unies: commentaire article par article, “Article 26: le régime de tutelle” sous la direction de J.P. Cot et A. Pellet, Paris, Economica, 1985 et nouvelle édition 2005

(vi)“Pour un État de droit en Afrique” in Mélanges offerts à P.F. Gonidec: L ’ État moderne à l ’ horizon 2000, aspects internes et externes sous la direction M. A. Glélé, Paris, L.G.D.J., 1986

(vii)“Cultures, Religions, Idéologies” dans Pouvoirs africains, Revue Pouvoirs, Paris, PUF, 1983

(viii)“Le Vodun”, Revue UCS 86/87 - UNESCO, Paris

(ix)“Variations sur l’Unité africaine”, Mélanges offerts à A. Tevoedjre -compagnon d ’ aventure, Paris, Berger-Levraut, 1988

(x)“Le Renouveau Démocratique au Bénin”, Colloque sur la transition démocratique en Afrique (Paris I, 12 and 13 December 1990)

(xi)“L’État de droit dans l’espace francophone”, Colloque international de la Francophonie, Cotonou, August 1991, Rapporteur général: M. Glélé-Ahanhanzo

(xii)“Les Parlements dans l’espace francophone: ces nouveaux parlements du Renouveau démocratique”, Le Bicentenaire du Parlement du Québec, Québec, 1992

(xiii)“Le droit à la difference”, The United Nations: A family of Nations? - A Seminar on the Address of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to the United Nations Organization, Trusteeship Council Chamber, United Nations Headquarters, New York, 8 May 1996

(xiv)“Un Zoulou au Palais Wilson” (dans Towar ds implementing Universal Human Rights, 2004)

Honours

(a)Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (France)

(b)Officier de la Légion d’Honneur (France)

(c)Grand Officier de l’Ordre national du Bénin

(d)In the context of the activities of the Institute of Human Rights and Promotion of Democracy: Democracy in Daily Life (IDH):

(i)In December 1996, IDH was congratulated by Mr. Jacques Chirac, the French President, when conferring on it a mention spéciale under the French Government’s Human Rights Prize for 1996, awarded by the National Consultative Commission on Human Rights;

(ii)UNESCO awarded IDH a commemorative medal in December 1998 on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights;

(iii)The third honour is the mention d ’ honneur under the 2002 UNESCO prize for human rights education, awarded to IDH at the thirteenth meeting of the UNESCO international board in Paris, on 28 and 29 October 2002.

Edwin JOHNSON LÓPEZ (Ecuador)

Nationality:Ecuadorian

Mother tongue:Spanish

Civil status:Married, two children

Languages

English - written and spoken

French - spoken

Italian - spoken

German - understood

Ambassador Johnson entered the foreign service as a career diplomat through an open competition in 1970.

Professional experience

Since December 2007Director-General for Cultural Promotion in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

September-December 2007Diplomatic Coordinator with the Congress of Ecuador

2006-2007Adviser in the Institute of Higher National Studies (IAEN)

2003-2005Deputy Minister and Secretary-General for Foreign AffairsActing Minister for Foreign Affairs on numerous occasions

January-September 2003Under-Secretary for the Foreign Service

1997-2002Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Confederation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Principality of Liechtenstein

1995-1997Ambassador/Director-General for Protocol and Ceremony Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador

October 1995Promoted to the rank of Ambassador of the Republic through competitionMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador

January 1995Diplomatic Coordinator on the front line, during the conflict with PeruMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador

1994-1995Director-General for EuropeMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador

1993-1995Coordinator of the Ecuador-Peru Commission on Good‑neighbourlinessMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador

1991-1993Minister, Head of Chancery in the Embassy of Ecuador in PeruMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador

1990-1991Minister-Chief of the Ecuador Interests Section in Berlin, during the process of German reunificationConsul-General of Ecuador in Berlin, with jurisdiction throughout the former German Democratic Republic

1988-1990Minister-Head of Chancery in the Embassy of Ecuador in Venezuela

1986Counsellor-Director of Passports and General Services in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1983-1986Counsellor in the Embassy of Ecuador in France

1984-1986Acting Permanent Representative in the Permanent Mission of Ecuador to UNESCO in Paris

1981-1983Counsellor-Chief of the Office of the Economic Under‑Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

February-July 1981Vice-Consul of Ecuador in New York (Legal Affairs) - United States of America

1976-1981Second and First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the United Nations in New York

1975-1976Second Secretary-Consul in Miami (United States of America)

1970-1975Chancellor and Third Secretary of the Ecuadorian Foreign Service, by open competition. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador

Other experience

2005-2008Member of the United Nations Committee of experts on Human Rights in a personal capacity

2003-2005Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the National Defence Board (Legal Committee)

1986-1987Chairman of the Association of Ecuadorian Foreign Service Personnel

1979-1985Member in a personal capacity of the Sessional Working Group of the Economic and Social Council for the establishment of the Committee of Experts of the United Nations International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

OtherVice-Chairman of the Standing Commission on Civic Commemorations

Member of the National Culture Council, representing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the governing body of the International Centre for Higher Studies in Journalism for Latin America (CIESPAL)

Representative to the Inter-American Centre for Popular Arts (CIDAP)

Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Committee responsible for coordination with the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities.

Studies

1989-1990Postgraduate course on Caribbean issues - Central University of Venezuela

1982Export promotion expert for the External Trade Institute (ICE), Rome

1978Studies on International Relations - Johns Hopkins University ‑ Washington D.C.

1969-1975Titles of advocate in the courts of the Republic of Ecuador and doctor of jurisprudence, by the Central University of Ecuador

1973Title of Bachelor in Public and Social Sciences by the Central University of Ecuador, Faculty of Jurisprudence, School of Law

Conferences and courses

Professor of Public International Law - Central University of Ecuador

Professor of Diplomatic Law - International School of Sciences - Ecuador

Professor of the Diplomatic Academy of Ecuador

Lecturer in the War Academy of the Armed Forces of Ecuador and in the Institute of Higher National Studies (IAEN)

Decorations

Gran Cruz Orden Nacional al Mérito, Ecuador

Gran Cruz Orden Nacional al Mérito, Chile

Gran Cruz Orden Nacional de El Sol, Peru

Segunda Clase Orden Francisco de Miranda, Venezuela

Orden de San Carlos, Colombia

Comendador de la Orden Nacional, Bolivia

Orden Nacional “Águila Azteca”, Mexico

Caballero de la Orden “Baron de Rio Branco”, Brazil

Rajsoomer LALLAH (Mauritius)

Name and first name:LALLAHRajsoomer

Date and place of birth:September 1933, Mauritius

Working languages:English and French

Current position/function

Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (membership expires in December 2008). Has served successively as Rapporteur and Chairperson of the Committee. Private practice as a law consultant, mostly on human rights protection, constitutional and public law, as well as civil and criminal cases. Also serves as arbitrator in national and international arbitrations.

Main professional activities

Initially practised as a barrister before eventually serving as Assistant Solicitor‑General and subsequently as Parliamentary Counsel in the Ministry of Justice of Mauritius. Then served as Special Adviser in Legal Matters at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, assisting Governments belonging to the Commonwealth, mainly on constitutional questions and the enactment of appropriate legal infrastructure for resources development and exploitation. Returned to Mauritius and served as a Judge of the Supreme Court for 15 years before retiring as Chief Justice.

Educational background

Obtained a BA (Honours) in Jurisprudence, Oxford University, United Kingdom, and subsequently an MA. Qualified as barrister‑at‑law at the Middle Temple, London. Was awarded a United Nations Institute for Training and Research fellowship at The Hague Academy of International Law.

Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned

Served as Special Rapporteur of the former United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Chile (1983 and 1984) and in Myanmar (1996 to 2000).Member of the group of three eminent persons appointed by the Secretary‑General of the United Nations to assess existing material relating to genocide in Cambodia and to recommend appropriate measures. Chair of the Commission of Enquiry appointed by the Governing Body of the International Labour Organization to investigate certain industrial complaints in Nigeria. Member of the Fact‑finding and conciliation commission appointed by the International Labour Organization to investigate industrial complaints made by the Congress of South African Trade Unions against the then Government of South Africa. Member of the High‑Powered Commission appointed by Commonwealth Heads of State and Government for the setting up of human rights machinery for the Commonwealth.

List of most recent publications in the field

Papers on the domestic application of international human rights norms for seminars for Chief Justices and other judges of the Commonwealth, including Law Associations. Papers on the evolving jurisprudence of the Human Rights Committee for similar seminars (Commonwealth Secretariat Publications).

Michael O’FLAHERTY (Ireland)

Nationality:Irish

Languages:English and French

Present appointment

Professor of Applied Human Rights and Co‑Director of the Human Rights Law Centre atthe School of Law, University of Nottingham

Other current professional engagements

Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, elected on the nomination of the Government of Ireland by the States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Member of international advisory boards: Diplomacy Training Programme, Sydney

UN‑UK Association, London; University of Sarajevo Human Rights Centre, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Hilda Back Education Fund, Nairobi

Member of the Management Committee of the EU Research Fund on Human Rights, Human Security and EU External Policy (COST Action 28)

Member of the International Research Network on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

Visiting Professor, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, and the European Inter‑University Centre for Human Rights and Democratization, Venice

Fellow, Kingston University

Member of editorial boards: Human Rights Law Review; EIUC Studies in Human Rights and Democratization Book Series; Irish Yearbook of International Law

Adviser to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR),UNICEF, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and several human rights non‑governmental organizations

Director of “Consolidating a Profession:The Human Rights Field Officer”,an international and inter‑institutional project of research, capacity‑building and training to map the professional identity and functions of the human rights field worker

Expert witness: during 2005‑2007, gave expert evidence on a number of occasions before trials at the Special Court for Sierra Leone

Previous appointments

2002‑2003Senior Research Officer (Child Rights), UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence, Italy

2000‑2002Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Coordinator, OHCHR programmes in the Asia‑Pacific region

Acting Deputy Director of the Office of the High Commissioner at United Nations Headquarters, New York

Chairperson of the United Nations Task Force on Human Rights and Humanitarian Action

1998‑2000Chief of the United Nations human rights programme in Sierra Leone, United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone

1997‑1998Independent consultant on human rights

1996‑1997Seconded to the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, OHCHR (Sarajevo): expert adviser on human rights underthe Dayton Peace Agreement; field‑based focal point for the United Nations human rights Special Rapporteur for Former Yugoslavia

1995‑1996Secretary of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; Coordinator of the Human Rights Programme, United Nations Graduate Studies

1993‑1995United Nations Centre for Human Rights, Geneva, Zagreb and Sarajevo: desk officer for Former Yugoslavia; initiator and first field‑based coordinator of the United Nations human rights field presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina

1987‑1992Coordination of the international human rights activities of the Irish Commission for Justice and Peace; development of support schemes for marginalized young people and the juvenile prisoners; coordination of the national youth programmes on justice, peace and human rights

1980‑1983Apprentice Solicitor, Ireland

Qualifications

1993University of Amsterdam: Master of Philosophy (human rights)

1992‑1993University of Amsterdam/Amsterdam School of International Relations, Master of Arts in International Relations

1984‑1987Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome: Bachelor of Theology

1983‑1984Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome: Bachelor of Philosophy

1980‑1983Law Society of Ireland, Dublin: Solicitor

1977‑1980University College Dublin (National University of Ireland), Bachelor of Civil Law

Publications *

His most recent book is The Human Rights Field Operation, Law, Theory and Practice, ed., Ashgate, 2007

Recent articles include

“The Reform of the United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies:A Critique of the High Commissioner’s Concept Paper”, with Claire O’Brien, Human Rights Law Review, spring2007

“Towards the Integration of Concluding Observations of United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies: The Rights‑based Approach Model”, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, December 2006

“The Concluding Observations of Human Rights Treaty Bodies”, Human Rights Law Review, spring 2006

Conference presentations 2003‑2007

Keynote speaker/panellist at events organized by the Governments of Ireland, United Kingdom, China, Germany, Norway, Monaco, Liechtenstein, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Solomon Islands and Fiji and at numerous conferences organized by intergovernmental bodies, universities and non‑governmental organizations.

Riccardo Pisillo MAZZESCHI (i taly)

Born:Siena (Italy), 11 January 1948

Family status:Married, with two children

Languages:Italian, English, French

Current positions

Professor of International Law, University of Siena, Italy (since 1994)

Head of the Department of Law, Economics and Government, University of Siena

Member of the Centre for Human Rights and Immigration Law, University of Siena (since its inception)

Member of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the Organization for Security and Co‑operation in Europe (OSCE), Geneva

Member of the Italian delegation to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva

Member of the board of editors of Diritti umani e diritto internazionale (human rights and international law), Franco Angeli publishers, Milan

Educational background

1972‑1973Harvard Law School (Cambridge, Mass.), Master of Laws Program

1972Georgetown University, Institute for International and Foreign Trade Law (Washington, D.C.)

1971‑1972University of Parma, School on the Law of International Organizations

1966‑1971University of Siena, Faculty of Law (Doctor of Law/LLB)

Professional activities

Since 1974Attorney‑at‑law, member of the Italian Bar Association

1974‑1985Partner in a law firm and practising lawyer

Academic career and relevant academic activities

2006Lecturer at The Hague Academy of International Law (State responsibility for violation of positive obligations on human rights)

2003‑2004Visiting scholar, Université Paris II

2000‑2005Professor of International Protection of Human Rights, University of Siena, Faculty of Political Science

1999‑2005Member of the advisory board of The Italian Yearbook of International Law, Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston

1999‑2001Professor of Human Rights, LUISS University of Rome, Faculty of Political Science

1998‑2005Head-Coordinator of the PhD. Joint Programme on International Law and European Union Law of the Universities of Siena, Florence and Pisa

1998Visiting scholar, European Commission of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France

1997‑2000Professor of Private International Law, University of Siena, Faculty of Political Science

1997Visiting scholar, Faculty of Laws, University College, University of London

1994‑1995Professor of Ecclesiastic Law, University of Siena, Faculty of Law

1991‑1992Visiting professor, Tulane Law School, New Orleans

1990‑1994Professor of International Law, University of Cagliari, Faculty of Law

1986Visiting fellow, Max‑Planck‑InstitutfürAusländischesÖffentlichesRecht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg

1985‑1990Associate Professor of Private International Law, University of Siena, Faculty of Law

1982Participant in the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations, The Hague Academy of International Law

1980‑1985Assistant Professor of International Organization, University of Siena, Faculty of Law

1973‑1979Research Fellow, University of Siena, Faculty of Law

Activities within international organizations and other public service activities

2005‑2006Member of the Working Group on the Draft Articles on Diplomatic Protection of the International Law Commission

1989‑1990Member of the Working Group for the Organization of the Forum on International Law of the Environment (1990)

1985Member of the Italian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, SixthCommittee (New York)

1985Assistant of the Italian Legal Adviser at the United Nations, Permanent Mission of Italy to the United Nations (New York)

Academic and professional associations

Member, Italian Society of International Law

Member, American Society of International Law

Member, International Law Association, Italian Branch

Member, Committee on International Human Rights Law and Practice, International Law Association

Lectures and reports

Organized and/or participated as a lecturer or rapporteur in Italy and abroad in several international conferences, seminars, workshops, panels and courses on public international law, European Union law, private international law; and in particular human rights law, international humanitarian and criminal law. Among the most recent ones:

2007Lecture at the University of Palermo on “Individual Rights, Human Rights and the ILC Works on Diplomatic Protection”

2007Lecture at the University of Naples on “Human Rights and Exhaustion of Local Remedies”

2007Report at the Conference of Berlin on “The EU as a Global Actor in the UN Reform Process: The Case of the Human Rights Council”

2007Report at the Conference of the European University Institute in Florence on “The New Human Rights Council: The First Two Years”

2007Report at the Siena Workshop of the International Law Association, Committee on International Human Rights Law and Practice, on “General International Law and International Human Rights Law”

2007Report at the Workshop of Bologna on “Diplomatic Protection and Human Rights”

2006Course at The Hague Academy of International Law on “State Responsibility for Violation of Positive Obligations on Human Rights”

2005Report at the Conference of Ferrara on “The New Procedure before the European Court of Human Rights after Protocol No. 14”

2005Lecture at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law, Sydney, on “The Role ofIndividual Rights and Human Rights in Contemporary International Law”

2005Lecture at the University of Technology of Sydney, Faculty of Law, on “European Union’s Measures Against Illegal Immigration”

Main publications

(a)Books and monographs

“Responsabilité de l’État pour violation des obligations positives relatives aux droits de l’homme”, in Recueil des Cours de l’Académie de Droit International de La Haye, 2006 (in print)

Esaurimento dei ricorsi interni e diritti umani (Exhaustion of local remedies and human rights), Torino, Giappichelli, 2004

“Due Diligence” e responsabilità internazionale degli Stati (Due Diligence and international responsibility of States), Milan, Giuffrè, 1989

Risoluzione e sospensione dei trattati per inadempimento (Termination and suspension of treaties for breach), Milano, Giuffrè,1984

(b)Articles, book chapters and other studies (selection)

“Individual Rights and Human Rights: Their Impact on the Law of Diplomatic Protection”, in M. Scheinin and M.T. Kamminga (eds.), The Impact of International Human Rights on General International Law, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2008 (in print)

“La coordination entre la nouvelle condition de recevabilité prévue par le Protocole N.14 à la Convention européenne et la règle de l’épuisement préalable des recours internes”, in F. Salerno (ed.), La nouvelle procédure devant la Cour européenne des droit de l’homme après le Protocole N.14, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2007, pp. 115‑134

“Reparation Claims by Individuals for State Breaches of Humanitarian Law and Human Rights: An Overview”, Journal of International Criminal Justice, vol.1, 2003, pp. 339‑347

“Exhaustion of Domestic Remedies and State Responsibility for Violation of Human Rights”, The Italian Yearbook of International Law, vol.10 (2000), The Hague/London/New York, 2001, pp.17‑43

“International Obligations to Provide for Reparation Claims?”, in Randelzhofer and Tomuschat (eds.), State Responsibility and the Individual: Reparation in Instances of Grave Violations of Human Rights,The Hague/London/Boston, Nijhoff, 1999, pp.149‑172

“Il dirittod’asilo 50 annidopo la Dichiarazioneuniversaledeidirittidell’uomo” (The right to asylum 50 years after the Universal Declaration of human rights), Rivista internazionale dei diritti dell’uomo, vol.12, 1999, pp.694‑703

“Die reineLehreKelsens und die Realität des heutigenVölkerrechts”, in Carrino and Winkler (eds.), Rechtsfahrung und reine Rechtslehre, Vienna/New York, Springer Verlag, 1995, pp.129‑155

“European Community and Member States’ Powers in the Field of Environmental Policy”, Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 1, 1993, pp. 107‑133

“The Due Diligence Rule and the Nature of the International Responsibility of States”, German Yearbook of International Law, vol. 35 (1992), Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1993, pp. 9‑51

“Forms of International Responsibility for Environmental Harm”, in Francioni and Scovazzi (eds.), International Responsibility for Environmental Harm, London/Dordrecht/Boston, Graham & Trotman, 1991, pp. 15‑35

“Termination and Suspension of Treaties for Breach in the ILC Works on State Responsibility”, in Spinedi and Simma (eds.), United Nations Codification of State Responsibility, New York/London/Toronto, Oceana, 1987, pp.57‑94

(c)Editor and/or co‑editor

Co‑editor (with M. Flores and T.Groppi), Diritti umani ‑ Dizionario (Encyclopedia on Human Rights), 2 vols., Torino, UTET, 2007

Rafael RIVAS POSADA(Colombia)

Place and date of birth: Santafé de Bogotá, 5 April 1932

Marital status: Married, two children

Foreign languages: English, French

University studies

Universidad Nacional, Law, Santafé de Bogotá, 1950-1954

Master of Law and Political Science, 1956, Final dissertation: “General Theory on Legal Transactions”, for which he was awarded the Medalla del MéritoUniversitario José Félix de Restrepo, 1957

Postgraduate studies

Université de Paris, Department of Law, Paris, 1956-1958, Civil Law courses (within the PhDcurriculum), scholarship of the French Government

Université de Paris, Institut de droit comparé, Paris, 1956-1958

Institute for Social Studies, The Hague, 1961-1963, Masters Degree in Public AdministrationFinal dissertation: “Regional development corporations: a method for administration”

Princeton University, United States of America, 1965-1968, PhD studies in Political SciencePhD candidate; final dissertation: “The Colombian political party system: models of political competition”; Ford Foundation scholarship

Professional background

Municipal Judge at Utica (Cundinamarca), 1955-1956

Minister of Public Finance, Bogotá, 1958

Attorney of the Province of Cundinamarca, 1958-1960

Private practice as lawyer - Bogota, 1971-1975

National Coordinator of the UNDP/UNESCO Programme, Bogotá, 1975

Minister of National Education, 1977-1978

General Manager of EmpresaColombiana de Producción y Distribución de BienesCulturales, Procultura S.A., Bogotá, 1981-1982

Member of the Peace Commission of the Colombian Government, 1982-1985

Assistant Director of the Colombian Liberal Party, 1985-1986

Academic experience

Professor at Escuela Superior de AdministraciónPública (ESAP), Bogotá, 1963-1965

Professor at Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia), 1965-1970

Head of the Political Science Department, Universidad del Valle, 1968-1969

Dean of the Department of Economic and Social Science, Universidad del Valle, 1970

Dean of the Department of Arts and Sciences, Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá), 1970-1971

Professor at Universidad de Los Andes, 1970-1975

Head of University, Universidad de Los Andes, 1982-1985

Director, Center for International Studies, Universidad de Los Andes, 1996-1997

Diplomatic background

Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations, New York, 1975-1977

Vice-President, Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, New York, 1976

Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council,President of the Social Committee and the Economic Committee of the Council

Chairman of the Ad-hoc Intergovernmental Working Group on the Problem of Corrupt Practices, United Nations, 1976-1977

President of the Intergovernmental Conference of UNESCO on Cultural Policies inLatin America and the Caribbean, Bogotá, 1978

Head of the Colombian delegation to the tenth special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations devoted to disarmament, New York, 1978

Regional Coordinator of UNESCO for Latin America and the Caribbean, Caracas, Venezuela, 1979-1981

Delegate of Colombia to the World Conference on Culture, organized by UNESCO, Mexico, 1982

Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for the study of the human rights situation in Uruguay, 1982-1985

Independent resource person of the Commission on Human Rights for the study of the human rights situation in Paraguay

Ambassador of Colombia to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Communities, Brussels, 1986-1988

Member of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Geneva, 1988-1991

Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva, 1989-1991

Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the human rights situation in Cuba, 1991-1992

Member of the Consultative Group of International Experts for the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1992-1995

Commissioner member for Panel A on the study of reparations concerning the Gulf War, United Nations Compensation Commission, Geneva, 1994-1996

Member of the National Group of the Permanent C ourt of Arbitration of The Hagu e

Member of the Human Rights Committee, 2000-2008

Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee, 2007-2008

Sir Nigel Rodley (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)

Name:Professor Sir Nigel Rodley

Born:1 December 1941

Marital status:Married

Foreign languages:French, Spanish and some German

Education:LLB, University of Leeds; LLM, Columbia and New York Universities;PhD, University of Essex

Current and recent positions

2001‑presentMember of the Human Rights Committee

2003‑2004 Human Rights Committee Vice‑Chairperson

2007‑presentHuman Rights Committee: Special Rapporteur on follow‑up to Concluding Observations

1993‑2001United Nations Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur on the question of torture

1994‑present Professor of Law (Reader 1990‑94) University of Essex, Colchester (subjects taught: international law; international human rights; jurisprudence)

Dean of the University of Essex School of Law (1992‑1995)

Director, University of Essex LLM in International Human Rights Law. Chair, University of Essex Human Rights Centre (2003‑present)

Professional recognition

2008Elected Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians

2005Joint recipient of the American Society of International Law’s GolerT. Butcher Medal for distinguished service to human rights

2000Honorary Doctor of Laws, Dalhousie University, Canada

Professional experience

1973‑1990Legal Adviser, (founding) Head of Legal and Intergovernmental Organisations Office, International Secretariat of Amnesty International (Main responsibilities: representing Amnesty International at meetings and conferences of major United Nations and other intergovernmental bodies concerned with drafting new international legal standards, establishing machinery to monitor their implementation and promoting and protecting human rights; providing information and advising on international and comparative law aspects of human rights information and publications; participating in research and negotiation missions to specific countries)

1973 ‑ 1990Part‑time Lecturer in International Law, London School of Economics and Political Science

1983Academic Visitor, London School of Economics and Political Science (wrote “The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law”, first edition)

1970‑1972Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, New York University (research and writing in international law and political science)

1969‑1972Visiting Lecturer of Political Science, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York (Subjects taught: international law; United Nations Secretariat; law and practice of the United Nations)

1968‑1969Associate Economic Affairs Officer, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York(drafting discussion documents and servicing international meetings on legal and organizational aspects of international economic cooperation)

1965‑1968Assistant Professor of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (Subjects taught: international law; international economic transactions; contracts; legal research, writing and bibliography)

Training programmes

Henry‑Dunant Institute (Geneva) Seminar for Francophone Heads of Prison Administration, Bujumbura (1990)

University of Lund (Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights, 1991, 1992 and 2000)

African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Banjul (1991)

United Nations Human Rights Training Course for Law Enforcement Officials, Malta (1991)

University of Essex Training Programme for Senior Administration of Justice Officials from Small Commonwealth Countries (1991)

United Nations Human Rights Training Course for Law Enforcement Officials, Albania (1992)

University of Essex Human Rights Training Sessions for the British Bar, London (1993)

African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Training Programmes for African Officials responsible for Reporting under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Harare (1993)

University of Essex Human Rights Centre Training Programmes for East European Lawyers (1999)

Lord Chancellor’s Department Judicial Studies Board, Human Rights Act Training Seminar (2000)

Philippines National Human Rights Commission (2001)

Amnesty International, International Secretariat and British Section (various)

Activities

Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists (since 2003)

Member, Council of Justice (British Branch of the International Commission of Jurists since2001)

Member, Editorial Committee, British Year Book of International Law (since 2001)

Member, United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office Expert Panel on Torture (from 1998 to current)

Trustee, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (since 2004)

Rapporteur, First and Second Annual Meetings of United Nations Commission on Human Rights Special Procedures (1994,1995); Chairperson, Sixth Meeting (1999)

Main books (written/edited or co‑authored)

The Treatment of Prisoners under International Law, 1987, 1999

International Law in Western Hemisphere, 1974

Enhancing Global Human Rights, 1979

To Loose the Bands of Wickedness ‑ International Intervention in Defence of Human Rights, 1992

International Response to Traumatic Stress, 1996

Conference on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Acute Crisis, 1998

Main shorter works

“Immunities of Officials Associated with Permanent United Nations Establishments”, 1972

“Monitoring Human Rights by the UN System and the Role of Non‑Governmental Organisations”, 1979

“On the Necessity of United States Ratification of the International Human Rights Conventions”, 1981

“Direct Intervention at the UN: NGO Participation in the Commission on Human Rights and its Sub‑Commission”, 1982

“The Development of United Nations Activities in the Field of Human Rights and the Role of Non‑Governmental Organisations”, 1983

“Torture, Extra‑Legal Execution and ‘Disappearance’ as Crimes under International Law”, 1985

“UN Action Procedures against ‘Disappearances’, Summary or Arbitrary Executions and Torture”, 1986

“Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention: The Case Law of the World Court”, 1989

“The International Legal Consequences of Torture, Extra‑Legal Execution and ‘Disappearance’”, 1989.

“The Role of Non‑Governmental Organisations in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights”, 1991

“United Nations Non‑Treaty Mechanisms for Protecting Human Rights”, l992

“Conceptual Problems Concerning Minorities ‑ International Legal Developments”, 1995

“Rights and Responses to Terrorism in Northern Ireland”, 1995

“International Human Rights Law and Machinery for Monitoring its Implementation in Situations of Acute Crisis”, 1998

“Impunity and Human Rights”, 1998

“United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures of the Commission on Human Rights: Complementarity or Competition?”, 2003

“The Prohibition of Torture: Absolute Means Absolute”, 2006

“Beyond Kosovo, Humanitarian Intervention on the Fault Lines of International Law”, 2007

Official publications

“Toward a More Effective Integrated System of Human Rights Protection by the United Nations”, 1993 (for Vienna World Conference on Human Rights)

Annual reports of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the question of torture, 1994‑2002

Various official reports on visits to individual countries in the role of United Nations Special Rapporteur

Fabian Omar SALVIOLI(Argentina)

Date of birth: 5 April 1963

Civil status: married

Professional information

A.Academic posts

Lawyer and Master of International Relations, National University of La Plata; with special studies in international protection of human rights in the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg) and the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (San José, Costa Rica)

Full Professor (head of department) in Public International Law, Chair No. III; Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences, National University of La Plata (Argentina, since 2000)

Director of the Institute of Human Rights, Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences, National University of La Plata (Argentina), since 1999 (www.derechoshumanos.unlp.edu.ar)

Director and professor of the Master’s Course in Human Rights, Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences, National University of La Plata (Argentina) since 2004, www.derechoshumanos.unlp.edu.ar. Subjects supervised: “The system for the protection of Human Rights in the UN”; “The inter-American system for the protection of human rights”

Postgraduate professor in various universities in the Argentine Republic (National University of Buenos Aires [UBA]; Argentine Notarial University; National University of Salta [unas]; University of the Argentine Social Museum; National University of Córdoba; National University of La Pampa; National University of Mar del Plata)

Director of the Human Rights Section of the Argentine International Law Association (AADI), an institution which enjoys consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (2003-2005)

Coordinator of the Inter-University Human Rights Network of the Argentine Republic (2001‑2004)

Producer and director of human rights education programmes for Canal 7 television (1999‑2001)

B.Work in International intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations

Member of the General Assembly of the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg)

External Consultant for the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights (San José, Costa Rica) since 1994. In that institute worked on various projects for the programmes on education, administration of justice, security and gender. Is also a regular lecturer in the annual Interdisciplinary Course, and has been a lecturer in the second and third series of the Latin American Foreign Ministry Staff Human Rights Training Course

Professor in charge of study of the inter-American system of human rights (in Spanish) and the seminar on the inter-American system (in French) at the Annual Course of the Strasbourg International Institute of Human Rights (from 1995 to 2007)

Consultant to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (1998)

Expert in the Team of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe working to combat impunity in the Russian Federation (2005)

Latin American Expert (Human Rights Area) for the reform of curriculum and content in the Bogota Higher School of Public Administration, University of Barcelona Nuffic Project, IL3 Spain, ESAP Colombia (2006-2007)

Presenter in the initial panel of the Intergovernmental Meeting of Senior Human Rights Authorities of Mercosur; Brasilia (2006)

Member of the Arbitral Tribunal on Pecuniary Compensation (Schiavini Case) set up as part of an Amicable Solution before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, at the suggestion of the State of Argentina (2006)

Member of the Research Team on “Courts of special jurisdiction and Human Rights” in the Comparative Law Research Unit in the University of Paris I (Sorbonne) (2005)

Teaching consultant in Depaul University (Chicago, United States of America) (2003-2005) for courses and seminars

Participant in the World Conference for the Establishment of the International Criminal Court (Representation of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International Rome 1998)

Participant in the Seminar of Experts for the strengthening of the Inter-American System, convened by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Washington, D.C., (1996)

Teaching consultant for UNICEF (Argentina) (1995-1998)

Chairman of Amnesty International Argentina (1989; 1993-1995)

Participant in the World Conference on Human Rights (Representation of the Oecumenical Movement for Human Rights of Argentina), Vienna (1993)

As visiting professor, from 1990 to date has given postgraduate and master’s courses and lectures in academic bodies and institutions in various countries of the American continent: Brazil (University of Brasilia, University of Santa Catarina); Chile (National University of Santiago; Economic Commission for Latin America [ECLA] and Andean Commission of Jurists); Colombia (Universidad Javeriana; Universidad del Externado; University of Nueva Granada; Fundación Social; Judicial Council of the Judicial Training School; Higher School of Public Administration); Costa Rica (National University of Costa Rica); Ecuador (Auditoría Democrática Andina; College of Human Rights Specialists of Guayaquil); El Salvador (Western Catholic University); United States of America (Human Rights Center for the Americas, Depaul University, Chicago); Guatemala (Criminal Public Defender’s Institute); Honduras (Public Defender’s Institute; Central American Confederation of Human Rights Procurators), México (Ibero-American University; Aguascalientes State Human Rights Commission; Querétaro State Human Rights Commission), Nicaragua (Inter-American Institute of Human Rights and European Union Project), Panamá (Ombudsman), Paraguay (National University of Asunción; Catholic University of Asunción; Supreme Court, Centre for Judicial Studies), Peru (University of San Marcos; Peruvian Institute of Human Rights and Education for Peace; Andean Commission of Jurists), Dominican Republic (Human Rights Institute of Santo Domingo); Uruguay (Catholic University of Uruguay; University of the Republic); Venezuela (Supreme Court; University of Los Andes-Mérida; Central University of Venezuela); and in Europe: Portugal (Universidade Portucalense), Italia (School of International Policy, Rome); Spain (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, University of Sevilla, Pablo de Olavide University; Public University of Navarra, University of Navarra; University of La Coruña, University of Valencia, University of Córdoba, University of Zaragoza, Universidad Cantábrica, University of Extremadura, University of Santander; Jaume I University of Castellón de la Plana); Russian Federation (Project of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, Kislovodsk), and France (International Human Rights Institute, Strasbourg; University of Paris I; Sorbonne).

C. Publications

Books and articles on the doctrine of human rights, education and international law in various countries of Latin America and Europe

“Los DerechosHumanos en las ConferenciasInternacionales de la últimadécadadelSigloXX”; en Las Grandes Conferencias Mundiales de la década de los ´90: las bases para la construcción de una comunidad internacional, Edit. IRI, UNLP y PNUD; La Plata, Argentina, 2000

“El derechointernacionalpúblicocontemporáneo y sus modificaciones a la luzdelderechointernacional de los derechoshumanos” en Anuario de derecho, No. 3, ed. Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires, 2000

“¿La justicia que viene? Un análisis de la Conferencia de las NacionesUnidas para el establecimiento de una Corte PenalInternacional”; in Agora, revista de Ciencias Sociales,No. 2, ed. CEPS, Valencia, Spain, 1999

“El desarrollo de la ProtecciónInternacional de los DerechosHumanos, a partir de las DeclaracionesUniversal y Americana”; en Relaciones Internacionales, No. 13; Edit. Instituto de RelacionesInternacionales, La Plata, Argentina, 1997

“La influencia de la DeclaraciónUniversal en el marconacional”; en Recueil des cours 1998, textes et sommaires, pp. 117 to 136; ed. Institut international des droits de l´homme; Strasbourg, 1998

“La Conferencia de Viena de las NacionesUnidas. Esperanzas y frustraciones en materia de derechoshumanos”; en Human Rights: The Promise for the XXIst Century/ Direitos Humanos : A promessa do século XXI; ed. UniversidadePortucalense, Oporto, 1997

“Relacionesinternacionales, derechoshumanos y educaciónpara la paz”; en Human Rigths : The Promise for the XXIst Century/ Direitos Humanos : A promessa do século XXI; ed. UniversidadePortucalense, Oporto, 1997

“El desarrollo de la ProtecciónInternacional de los DerechosHumanos, a partir de las DeclaracionesUniversal y Americana”; en Relaciones InternacionalesNo. 13; Edit. Instituto de RelacionesInternacionales, La Plata, Argentina, 1997

“La mujer en el DerechoInternacionalPúblico: un viaje de medio siglodesde San Francisco a Pekín”; en A un año de Beijing, ed. Instituto de RelacionesInternacionalesUNLP, La Plata, Argentina, 1996

“El sistemainteramericano de protección de los derechoshumanos”, en Session d’Enseignement: Recueil des Cours, textes et sommaires/Collection of Lect u res, Texts and Summaries; InstitutoInternacional de DerechosHumanos, Strasbourg, 1995; 1996; y 1998 a 2007

“La protección de los derechoseconómicos, sociales y culturales en el sistemainteramericano de derechoshumanos”; en Revista, No. 40; ed. InstitutoInteramericano de DerechosHumanos; San José, Costa Rica, 2004

“La competenciaconsultiva de la Corte Interamericana de DerechosHumanos: marcolegal y desarrollojurisprudencial”; en Homenaje y Reconocimiento a Antônio Cançado Trindade; ed. Sergio Fabris, Brasilia, 2004

“Un análisisdesde el principio pro persona, sobre el valorjurídico de las decisiones de la ComisiónInteramericana de derechoshumanos”,en Defensa de la Constitución , Libro en reconocimiento al Doctor Germán Bidart Campos; Edit. Ediar, Buenos Aires, 2003

“El aporte de la Declaración Americana de 1948 para la proteccióninternacional de los derechoshumanos”,en: El sistema interamericano de protección de los derechos humanos en el umbral del siglo XXI, Tomo I; Edit. Corte Interamericana de DerechosHumanos, San José, Costa Rica, 2001

“El sistemainteramericano de derechoshumanos a favor de la democraciasubstancial”; en: Garantías, No. 3; Edit. Defensoríadel Tribunal de Casación de la Provincia de Buenos Aires; La Plata, Argentina, 2000

“Postuladosemergentes de la Jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de DerechosHumanos en relación al DerechoInternacionalPúblico”; Edit. Instituto de RelacionesInternacionales, La Plata, Argentina, 1997

“Derechos, Acceso y rol de las víctimas”; en: El futuro del sistema interamericano de protección de los Derechos Humanos; Edit. InstitutoInteramericano de DerechosHumanos, San José, Costa Rica, 1997

“Los desafíosdelsistemainteramericano de protección de los derechoshumanos”; en Estudios Básicos de Derechos Humanos, tomo V; ed. InstitutoInteramericano de DerechosHumanos, San José, Costa Rica, 1996

“La justiciacomo garante de la dignidadhumana: las sentencias de la Corte Interamericana de DerechosHumanos contra Estados”; en: Amnistía Internacional , revista bimestral para los países de habla hispana, No. 20, agosto/septiembre 1996; ed. Edai, Madrid, Spain, 1996

“Algunasreflexiones sobre la indemnización en las sentencias de la Corte Interamericana de DerechosHumanos”, en Estudios Básicos de Derechos Humanos, tomo III, ed. InstitutoInteramericano de DerechosHumanos, San José, Costa Rica, 1995

“La Constitución Argentina y los DerechosHumanos: un análisis a la luz de la reforma de 1994”, ed. Medh, Buenos Aires, 1994

“The individual, human rights and international instruments, focus on the Council of Europe”; en The ELSA Law Review, No. 2, ed. ELSA International, Copenhagen

“Les tribunaux militaires en Argentine” en Jurisdiction d´ exception et Droits de l´homme, ed. MR de droit comparé de Paris, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS; París, 2007

Courses published online in the educational tools portal of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights ( www.iidh.ed.cr /)

El sistemauniversal de protección de los derechoshumanos de la Organización de las NacionesUnidas

La proteccióndelderecho a la integridadpersonal y la prohibición de la tortura en los sistemasuniversal e interamericano de protección de los derechoshumanos

Curso sobre la proteccióninternacional de los derechoseconómicos, sociales y culturales

Curso sobre el SistemaInteramericano de DerechosHumanos

“Basic course on the universal system for the protection of human rights”

“Basic course on economic, social and cultural rights”

Other books - joint authorship and in the press

Ciudadanía y derechos humanos (joint authorship), Ed. Santillana, Buenos Aires, 2006.

Manual de Derechos Humanos para Fuerzas Armadas (joint authorship), Ed. InstitutoInteramericano de DerechosHumanos, San José, Costa Rica, 2005

El archivo y el taller de las ciencias sociales (8 volumes, joint authorship); Ed. Norma, Buenos Aires, 1990

“Los DerechosHumanos en la Educación Superior”: (in the press, InstitutoInteramericano de DerechosHumanos)

D. Other background

Has sponsored individual complaints and/or cases before the organs of the Inter-American human rights system as a lawyer.

Member of the interdisciplinary formal education team of the Oecumenical Movement for Human Rights (1990-1996).

Public recognition by the Municipality of La Plata for work performed at the national and international levels to promote and protect human rights (2008).

KristerThelin(Sweden)

Languages:Swedish, English, German and French

Present appointment

Judge (ad litem) at the International Tribunal for The former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Elected by the United Nations General Assembly in 2001 as Judge (ad litem), re-elected in 2005 and presently serving in The Hague since December 2003.

Previous appointments

1997-2003Assignments in the Balkans for the European Union and the Swedish Foreign Ministry; Support for the Constitutional Institution-Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Director-General of the independent Media Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the country’s Supreme Regulatory Body of Ether Media), Chairman of the South East Europe Stability Pact “eSEEUROPE Initiative”, and Director of the Policy and Legal Advice Centre in Belgrade, Serbia

1998- Chief Justice of Appeal, Court of Appeal of Skåne and Bleking in Malmö

1995-1997Chairman of law commissions; civil law, international private law and law on border security

1991-1994Deputy Minister of Justice

1990-1997Justice of Appeal

1987-1991Adviser on International Humanitarian Law to the Swedish Defence Forces

1984-1989Associate Justice of Appeal

1978 -1994Secretary to various law commissions; social insurance law, civil law and data protection law

1976-1978Assistant Justice of Appeal

1972-1975Law clerk

Qualification

1975-1976Master of Laws (LLM); inter alia, United Nations law and international legal process, Harvard Law School

1967-1972JurisKandidat (LLB) at Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Other current professional engagements

The Swedish Society for Judicial Research; President, 1992-1997

The International Bar Association; vice-chair of Judges’ Forum 2000-2001

Member of the International Commission of Jurists

Member of the Swedish Helsinki Committee and Amnesty International

Publications

Sweden and the rule of law, Stockholm, 2001

The Swedish Code of Judicial Procedure, New York, 1979

Several articles on constitutional law, human rights and data protection

Elisabeth ZakhariaSioufi(Lebanon)

Date of birth:27 September 1954

Current position/function:Attorney at LawMember of the Beirut Bar Association since 16 October 1980

Main professional activities:Director of the Institute for Human Rights of the Beirut Association:

Representative of the Beirut Bar Association in theNational Steering Committee concerning WomenMigrant Domestic Workers

Member of the Committee on child protection against violence (Higher Council of Childhood)

Chairperson of the Local Committee at the Unit onLife and Service of the Middle East Council ofChurches - Lebanon

Educational background:1980 - LLB with distinction (Licence en Droit) inLebanese Law, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut

1979 - LLB with distinction (Licence en Droit) inFrench Law, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut

1978 - DEUG (Mention Sciences Juridiques) with distinction, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut

1975 - BA in Sociology, Université de Lyon (France), Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines

Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned

To train on the implementation of international conventions and capacity-building on monitoring and reporting in this respect.

To train mainly lawyers on human rights in the administration of justice.

To train on international humanitarian law public awareness campaigns on the rights of the child.

Participate in national plans to amend laws in compliance with international conventions ratified by Lebanon.

List of most recent publications in the field

2007- The Role of Professional Associations in the Promotion of Human Rights Culture

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