MEETING OF STATES PARTIESTwenty-seventh meetingNew York4 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 accordance with articles 30, paragraph 4, and 32 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the twenty-seventh meeting of States parties to the Covenant will be convened by the Secretary-General at United Nations Headquarters on Thursday, 4 September 2008.
2.The curricula vitae of 13 candidates received by 14 May 2008 are set out in document CCPR/SP/71. Those of three candidates received after 14 May 2008 are annexed to documents CCPR/SP/71/Add.1 and CCPR/SP/71/Add.3. The withdrawal of one candidate is recorded in document CCPR/SP/71/Add.2.
3.The present document contains in the annex the curriculum vitae of the candidate submitted by Mali on 17 July 2008.
Annex
CURRICULUM VITAE *
Surname and first name:Konaté, Modibo (Malian national)
Date and place of birth: 29 November 1954 in Dakar
Working languages: French and English (fair)
Current position/function:Judge, Inspector of Judicial ServicesProfessor of law at the University of Mali and at the National Institute for Judicial Studies and Prison AdministrationMember of the Malian League of Human Rights
Main professional activities
Professional judge, with more than 18 years of practical judicial experience in human rights in courts and prisons
Professor of law at the University of Mali since 1984 (24 years)
Professor at the National Institute for Judicial Studies and Prison Administration since 1986; course taught: “Human rights in prisons” (prison guards and heads of penal institutions)
Coordinator of the penal and prison reform activities of the non-governmental organization Penal Reform International in Mali
Member of various government expert groups in international meetings on international penal law and human rights
Education
1980:Diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA) (first postgraduate degree) penal law, criminal science (University of Poitiers, France)
1981:DEA, civil law (University of Poitiers, France)
1984:Doctor of Penal Law (University of Poitiers, France)
1984:Certificate of the United Nations/UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research) regional course in international law
2003:Certificate of the regional course in penal reform
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned
Rapporteur-General in New York of the work of the group of government experts on the establishment of the United Nations African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (5-15 September 1986, New York)
Plenipotentiary delegate of Mali to the seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (Milan, Italy, August-September 1985)
Rapporteur-General in Bordeaux (France) of the work of the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation on training legal practitioners (April 1992)
Member of the group of expert consultants involved in drafting a study on certain aspects of the International Criminal Tribunal (Freiburg, Germany, May 1998)
Technical adviser responsible for human rights issues and editor of all the periodic reports submitted to the United Nations Office at Geneva, from 1984 to 1986
Most recent publications in the field
“La procédure pénale malienne et la protection des droits et libertés individuels”, in Revue de la justice
“Les droits de l’homme dans les prisons”, course for prison guards and heads of penal institutions
“Les droits de l’homme dans le procès pénal”, in Revue de la justice
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