MEETING OF STATES PARTIESTwenty-fifth meetingNew York7 September 2006

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 2006

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 25th meeting of States parties to the Covenant will be convened by the Secretary-General at United Nations Headquarters on Thursday, 7 September 2006, 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 2006(annex II). The names of the other nine members who will continue to serve on the Committee until 31 December 2008 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 17 February 2006, 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 17 May 2006. In a similar note verbaledated 10 April 2006, the Secretary-General invited a new State party to submit its nominations within three months, i.e. by 10 July 2006.

3.Annex IV contains the curricula vitae of the persons whose nominations had been received by the secretariat respectively by the end of day, 17 May 2006. Nominations received after this date will be issued in addenda to the present document.

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Annex I

list of candidates nominated by states parties

Name of candidate	Nominated by
Mr. Abdelfattah AMOR	Tunisia
Mr. Driss BELMAHI	Morocco
Mr. Prafullachandra N. BHAGWATI	India
Ms. Christine CHANET	France
Mr. Brownson Naguolor DEDE	Nigeria
Mr. Abdellah Milud EL-MEHADBI	Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Mr. Yuji IWASAWA	Japan
Ms. Maria Leonor JOAQUIM	Mozambique
Mr. Walter KÄLIN	Switzerland
Ms. Zonke Zanele MAJODINA	South Africa
Mr. Roberto MEJÍA TRABANINO	El Salvador
Mr. Ahmed MOHAMED OMER EL MUFTI	Sudan
Ms. Iulia Antoanella MOTOC	Romania
Mr. Murade Isaac Miguigy MURARGY	Mozambique
Mr. Jorge Eduardo PAN CRUZ	Uruguay
Mr. José Luis PÉREZ SANCHEZ-CERRO	Peru
Mr. Alejandro Enrique SALINAS RIVERA	Chile
Mr. Hipólito SOLARI-YRIGOYEN	Argentina
Mr. Carlos VILLÁN DURÁN	Spain
Ms. Ruth WEDGWOOD	United States of America
Mr. Roman WIERUSZEWSKI	Poland

Annex II

LIST OF THE NINE MEMBERS WHOSE TERMS EXPIRE ON 31 dECEMBER 2006

Name of candidate	Nominated by
Mr. Abdelfattah AMOR	Tunisia
Mr. Nisuke ANDO	Japan
Mr. Prafullachandra N. BHAGWATI	India
Mr. Alfredo CASTILLERO HOYOS	Panama
Ms. Christine CHANET	France
Mr. Walter KÄLIN	Switzerland
Mr. Hipólito SOLARI-YRIGOYEN	Argentina
Ms. Ruth WEDGWOOD	United States of America
Mr. Roman WIERUSZEWSKI	Poland

Annex III

list of the nine members who will continue to serve on the committee until 31 December 2008

Mr. Maurice Glèlè AHANHANZO	Benin
Mr. Edwin JOHNSON LOPEZ	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 IV

curricula vitae of candidates

Abdelfattah AMOR

Born in 1943, entered university in 1970 where he has gone through the different steps to become today Emeritus Professor.

As a specialist of Public Law and political sciences, he has been teaching International Law, International Relations, Constitutional Law and Political Sciences, Human Rights and Administrative Law.

Amongst other things, he has been teaching as an invited or associate professor in several Universities notably in Africa, Eastern and Western Europe.

Prof. Amor has presided over numerous recruitment juries in relation to public law professors. He has had many academic responsibilities, such as Dean of the Facultyof Law of Tunis which at the end of his mandate gave him the title of Honorary Dean. Prof. Amor is currently President of The International Academy of Constitutional Law.

With regards to the United Nations, Prof. Amor was elected as member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee first in 1998 and again in 2002, he was Vice-President of the Committee from 1999 to 2003 and President between 2003 and 2005.

At the same time, he was Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on Freedom of Religion or Belief. Within this activity, he has presented 37 reports to the Commission and to the General Assembly. He has conducted numerous studies pertaining to international law such as “Women, traditions, religions”, “Education and Tolerance”, “Religious discriminations and racial discriminations: Aggravated Discriminations”.

Prof. Amor participated in 1993 in the Vienna Conference on Human Rights and in 2001 in the Durban Conference against Racism. For the above two Conferences, he was involved in terms of their preparations and their outcome. Above all, he has organized and presided the United Nations Consultative Conference on Education and fight against discrimination and intolerance based on religion or belief. This Conference was held in 2001 in Madrid. From 1992 to 1995, Prof. Amor took part in the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.

Prof. Amor has contributed on several occasions to UNESCO where he presides the Human Rights Prize Jury. He has contributed as well to the OIF where he was member of the Bureau of the Conference of Law Faculties Deans using totally or partially the French language (1987-2002), he was a member as well of the “Fundamental Rights Network” Bureau (1993-2003).

At the African level, Prof. Amor has contributed, as expert, to the evolution of the Organization of African Unity to the African Union.

Besides his international activities, Prof. Amor has, at the Arab level, been an expert for the League of Arab States, in charge of an amendment project to the League Pact (1979-1982). He contributed in 1975 to the creation of the Arab Jurists Union. In 1991, he organized the first Conference of the Arab Law Faculties Deans concerning human rights teaching. He actively contributes to the scientific activities of Human Rights Arab Institute. He has, in addition, created or participated to the creation of a number of academic or scientific societies in the Maghreb Region.

At the national level, Prof. Amor has run a number of academic and scientific activities. Furthermore, he acted as a member of the Constitutional Council (1987-1992) and President of the Tunisian Association of Constitutional Law (1982-2005).

Among his publications, Prof. Amor is the author of “Relationships between constitutional and international Law”, “Constitutional Law and Political Institutions”, “Amendment to the Arab League Pact”, “Islam and Human Rights”, “Studies on Tolerance”, “The universal Suffrage”, “The Democratic Changes in Africa”, “International Law and Religions”, “Arab legality, Islamic legality and international legality”, “The International Criminal Court”, “the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea”. He is also the author of about a hundred articles and studies on other subjects of international law, constitutional law and human rights. Prof. Amor is the Editor of Lectures of the International Academy of Constitutional Law.

Prof. Amor has received two national decorations (Order of the Republic and Order of Educational Merit), one national prize (National Human Rights Prize, 1998), one decoration from Spain (Civic Merit Order) and several decorations and academic awards from foreign universities and institutions.

Driss BELMAHI

Date and place of birth:17 October 1958, Oujda, Morocco

Family situation:Married, 2 children

Diplomas

1982Bachelor in Public Law at the Faculty of Law of Oujda

1986CES in Political Science at the Faculty of Law of Rabat

1987CES in International Relations at the Faculty of Law of Rabat

1988CES in Public Finance at the Faculty of Law of Casablanca

1989DES in Political Science at the Faculty of Law of CasablancaPhD in Political Science at the Faculty of Law - In progress

Functions

1983-1984Civil service within the Ministry of Interior

1989-1993Maitre assistant at the Faculty of Law of Casablanca

1993-1998Journalist at Al Mithad Watani

1994-2003Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy of Meknes

1998-2004Director of Human Rights Dialogue and Defence at the Ministry of Human Rights

2004Counsel and Head of the Communication Cooperation and Training Section at the Institution Diwan Al Madhalim (Ombudsman)

1996-2005Lecturer in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Faculty of Law, Royal Military Academy, Casablanca Royal School of Gendarmerie and the Ifrane Center of Training of prison educators

Participation at national and international consultations

1993-1997Participation at the supervision of the election in Yemen

1995Seminar on liberty and quality of teaching at B.E.I.

1998Participation at the elaboration of the Center of Documentation, Information, and Human Rights Training (CDIFDH), established in cooperation between the Ministry of Human Rights, and the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations, and the UNDP

2000Member of the National Commission in charge of preparing the national report presented at the World Summit on the Child

2000-2004Member of the network of the Mediterranean Master in Human Rights and Democracy at Malta University

2004Legal counsellor to the National Observatory of Child Rights

2005Member of the scientific counsel of the UNESCO Chair on child, family and society at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah University of Fes

2005Participation at the framing of the annual report of the Human Rights Consultative Counsel (CCDH)

Participation with the team of the centre of studies in human rights and democracy to the elaboration of a study to the profit of UNICEF on the application of the human rights approach in the matter of child rights

Preparation of the institutionalization project of the Arab forum of the civil society in favour of childhood

Participation to the conferences, seminaries and United Nations organs

Representing Morocco in Human Rights Conventions Committees: August 1998 (CERD); May 1999 (CAT); October 1999 (Human Rights Committee); October 2000 (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Committee)

Dakar Regional conferences and the Geneva Prep com of the World Conference against Racism

September 2001: World Conference against Racism at Durban, South Africa

August 2002: Group on forced or involuntary disappearances

April 2004: International forum against racism at Stockholm

Participation in the organization of the workshops and seminaries

Statement analysis of periodic reports submitted by Morocco to various conventional committees: 2-3 January 2001

The accordance of the Moroccan law on prisons with international norms - Workshop on the “Penitentiary legislations and international norms for the treatment of the prisoners” Rabat, 22‑24 January 2001

The international treaties and the internal law - Seminary on “The international conventions and internal law” Rabat, 19-21 October 2001

Role of ethics in the prevention of torture - Study day on “Prison medicine and Human rights” Rabat, 6 June 2002

International norms in the matter of human rights and the supervision of the elections. Study day on the “Control of the elections” Rabat, 7 June 2002

Reflection on the Moroccan press code. Study day on “Democracy and right to information” Rabat, 21 November 2002

Freedom of information and fair trial. Training workshop on “Media and human rights” Rabat, 3-5 October 2003

Regional workshop on “Arab countries and international mechanisms of human rights protection” Casablanca, 25-28 September 2003: Reflection on reserves’ condition on human rights in the Arab countries; Critical study on the Arab countries practices in the matter of periodic reports of human rights

The normative and institutional evolution of human rights in Morocco. Two workshops for officials of United Nations institutions in Morocco on the “Human rights evolution in Morocco” Rabat, 7 and 25 May 2004

Gross violation of human rights: regulation without vision, round table on “Works of the Moroccan compensation commission”

The torture issues in front of Moroccan jurisdictions. National workshop on the “Istanbul protocol” Marrakech, 29 November until 2 December 2004

Works published regarding legislation

1999-2001Coordinator of law projects on civil liberties

2000Preparation of working paper on political parties in Morocco; Preparation of working paper on the Ombudsman institution

2003Participation at the elaboration of the internal regulation of the institution Diwan Al Madhalim (Ombudsman)

2004Participation at a consultative elaboration of a law project creating an Ombudsman in Jordan; Human rights training book for agents in charge of law’s implementation for Moroccan Amnesty Section

Publications

2000Comparative study on the competences of mediators, REMALD No. 26-2000

2002Treaties’ position within the internal legislation, CDIFDH publication

2004The role of national institutions regarding human rights protection, publication of Swedish institute of Alexandria, Egypt; the accordance of the law relating to the entry and the stay of foreigners in the Kingdom of Morocco, to emigration and irregular immigration, with international conventions in the matter of human rights, national symposium act on 19-20 December 2003, publication of the association of legal and judicial information 2004

2005Comparative study of equity, Diwan Al Madhalim magazine No. 2; the impact of the Moroccan engagement in human rights and humanitarian rights on the reform of the penal code - the symposium act on the penal reform, publication of the association of legal and judicial information; the torture through the Moroccan jurisprudence, CDIFDH and IRCT publication

Languages

Fluent in Arabic and French

Proficient in English and Spanish

Activities within civil society

1984-1989Member of the Moroccan Association of Human Rights

1990-1998Member of the administrative committee of the Moroccan Organization of Human Rights (OMDH)

1991-1998Member of the National Trade Union of the Moroccan press (SNPM)

1993-1998Member of the Regional Trade Union of university lecturers (SNE Sup)

2005Charged with programmes at the Center of studies in human rights and democracy

2006Member of the administrative committee of Moroccan Organization of Human Rights (OMDH)

Prafullachandra Natwarlal BHAGWATI

Date of birth:21 December 1921

Working language:English

Justice P.N. Bhagwati is one of the most distinguished jurists of India since its independence. He presided over the Supreme Court of India as its Chief Justice until his retirement. Under his leadership the Indian Supreme Court has developed comprehensive human rights jurisprudence for India. He, through creative interpretation, expanded the reach and context of human rights embodied in the Constitution. He developed the strategy of Public Interest Litigation with a view to making human rights meaningful for the large masses of poor and disadvantaged people. This is a strategy which has won admiration in many common law jurisdictions.

Justice Bhagwati is closely connected with a large number of NGOs, both in India and outside, and has been motivating and inspiring grass-roots human rights and development NGOs. He has organized a number of judicial colloquia in different parts of the Commonwealth on “Domestic Application of International Human Rights norms” for judges in the Commonwealth. He has also promoted and participated in numerous workshops of lawyers and judges on the subject of human rights organized by NGOs and was Chairman of the World Congress on Human Rights held in New Delhi in December 1990.

He has been a member of the Committee of Experts of the ILO since 1987. He has been the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and is currently a Member. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights had taken him as Regional Adviser for the Asia Pacific Region. He has also carried out several missions for the United Nations Centre for Human Rights, the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the International Commission of Jurists. His services have been utilized by several countries, including Mongolia, Cambodia, Nepal, Ethiopia, and South Africa in framing their Constitutions and particularly the chapters on human rights. He was a member of the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry in South Africa. He was also involved in finalizing the draft manual for training of judges in human rights prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Justice Bhagwati has been particularly active in the area of women’s rights. He has been the moderator and the main resource person for at least three judicial workshops of women judges for domestic application of international human rights norms in the jurisprudence of women’s rights, one in Victoria Falls for African judges, the other in Hong Kong for Asia Pacific judges and the third in Guyana for Caribbean judges. He presided over the Peoples Tribunal for Violence against Women at the Vienna Human Rights congress. This Tribunal was organized by International Women NGOs.

He has been responsible for a considerable amount of work in the field of human rights and development among tribals, particularly tribal women in South and East India, and has provided leadership to the NGO, AWARE, in making 6,000 villages self-reliant. He is a household name amongst the poor and underprivileged sectors of Indian society.

Justice P.N. Bhagwati was responsible for making a large number of innovations with a view to providing access to justice to the poor and disadvantaged. He enlarged the doctrine of locus standi before the Supreme Court and the High Courts for vindicating the individual and collective rights of those who were denied access to justice on account of poverty or social or economic disability.

He at the same time worked successfully to build up an elaborate legal aid programme. He is widely regarded as the originator of India’s legal aid programme, including setting up of legal aid camps in rural areas, working with NGOs, establishing legal aid clinics etc.

Numerous documentaries have been made on him and his work including one where he is one of six outstanding Indians on whose life the Indian TV has done a profile. He has been the most visible member of India’s Judiciary since independence. His reputation and his impact, through his judicial and legal aid work, is so enormous that the public response has been quite phenomenal, e.g., a village where the tribal people benefited from his judgement, renamed the village after him calling it BHAGWATI PURAM.

He has championed the cause of workers and labourers. His thought provoking judgements on bonded and unorganized labour and child labour have resulted in various legislations and government schemes in improving their social and economic conditions. He is also involved in the programme of sustainable development and has been responsible for developing poverty jurisprudence in India.

His services have also been availed of by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He was the Chairman of Eminent Persons Group for Study of questions relating to refugees in South Asia.

He has also been a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. He was also a member of the International Mediation Team with Henry Kissinger and Lord Carrington for mediation between Inkatha and ANC before the elections in South Africa. He was also a Member of the International Advisory Council of the World Bank for Legal and Judicial Reforms.

He is presently a member of the Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of the United Nations. He is also the Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also the Honorary Member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

He is Chancellor of the Hyderabad University.

He is also Chancellor of Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth.

Christine CHANET

Working languages:French, English

Current position/functions

Judge of the Court of Cassation

Chairperson of the committee to review a criminal decision in the light of a judgement of the European Court of Human Rights

Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Cuba

Chairperson of the Human Rights Committee 2005-2006

Main professional activities

Junior magistrate at the Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature (1968-1970)

Magistrate at the Central Administration of the Ministry of Justice (1970-1974)

Technical adviser to the Secretariat of State for Women’s Affairs and then head of the Minister’s Office (1974-1976)

Special assistant at the Office of the Minister for Culture (1976-1977)

Special assistant to the Director of the Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1981‑1983)

Assistant Head of Human Rights and International Civil and Criminal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1983-1986)

Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

Member of the Committee against Torture

Technical adviser, Office of Pierre Arpaillange (Minister of Justice) (1988)

Advocate-General at the Paris Court of Appeal (1992-1996)

Chairperson of the United Nations Human Rights Committee in 1997

Studies

Lycée La Fontaine and Paris Faculty of Law

Advanced Diploma in Private Law

Advanced Diploma in Criminology

Brownson Naguolor DEDE

Date of birth:1 September 1939

Nationality:Nigerian

Marital status:Married with 6 children

Religion:Christian (Catholic)

Education

(1) 1953-1958Urhobo College, Warri, Nigeria (West African School Certificate, First Division)

(2) 1960-1964University of Ibadan, Nigeria, (State scholar) (top 10 in nationwideuniversity entrance examination) B.A. (Honours)

(3) 1965-1966London School of Economics and Political Science, postgraduate foreign service course in: international economic relations, diplomacy, international organizations and institutions, diplomatic history and public international law

(4) 1967John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington D.C.

(5)Rockefeller Foundation seminars in diplomacy:

(a)March-April, 1967: crucial issues in American foreign policy

(b)October-December 1967: international aspects of economic development

(c)March-April 1968: the making of American foreign policy

Languages spoken and written

English and French, with a working knowledge of Portuguese and German

Recent appointments

(1)September 1999-August 2003: Director General, Ministry of Cooperation and Integration in Africa, the Presidency, Abuja

(2)1996-January 1999: Ambassador of Nigeria to Ethiopia and the State of Eritrea and permanent representative to the OAU

(3)April 1990-September 1995: OAU Assistant Secretary-General in charge of the Department of economic development and cooperation

(4)1992-1995: Appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General as a member of the panel of high-level personalities on African Development

(5)September 1987-April 1990: OAU Assistant Secretary-General in charge of the Departments of administration and finance

(6)May 1986-September 1987: OAU Assistant Secretary-General in charge of political affairs

Previous career appointments

(1)September 1984-April 1986: Ambassador/director, policy planning department, ministry of external affairs, Lagos and member of the governing council of the Nigerian institute of international affairs, Lagos

(2)April 1984-August 1984: Acting High Commissioner in Australia, and also New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu

(3)August 1981-March 1984: Minister and Deputy High Commissioner for Nigeria in Canberra, Australia (also New Zealand, etc.) (promoted to ambassadorial grade, External Affairs Office grade 1 in November, 1983)

(4)February 1981: Minister and Consul-general, Consulate General of Nigeria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

(5)October 1979-January 1981: Minister Counsellor for political and economic affairs, Embassy of Nigeria, Brasilia, Brazil

(6)September 1978-September 1979: Minister Counsellor for economic affairs, Department of international economic cooperation, Ministry of External Affairs

(7)September 1975-September 1978: Counsellor and Special Assistant to the commissioner (minister) of External Affairs, Lagos

(8)July 1972-August 1975: First Secretary and Head of Chancery, Embassy of Nigeria, Bonn, West Germany

(9)January 1970-November 1970: First Secretary and Charge d’Affaires, Embassy of Nigeria, Conakry, Guinea

(10)August 1968-December 1969: Assistant Secretary (second secretary), Division of African Affairs, Ministry of External Affairs, Lagos

(11) (a)July 1966-May 1968: Third Secretary and Special Assistant to the Ambassador, Embassy of Nigeria, Washington D.C.

(11) (b)Second Secretary, political and administration, Embassy of Nigeria, Washington D.C.

(12)Joined the Nigerian Foreign Service as an assistant secretary (third secretary) in September 1964 and worked in the division of Asian and Pacific Affairs and later in African Affairs division

International conferences attended

Attended several international conferences including:

(a)OAU extraordinary Council of Ministers, Lagos, June 1965

(b)OAU Council of Ministers in 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1985, all sessions from February 1986 to date

(c)OAU summit conferences in 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1985, all summit conferences from February 1986 to 1998

(d)Non-Aligned summits: Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1976 and Harare, Zimbabwe 1986

(e)Commonwealth Heads of Government summits in 1976 and 1982

(f)United Nations General Assembly meetings in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1985, 1986-1988

Abdellah Milud EL-MEHADBI

Date and place of birth:19 December 1950, Tripoli-Aziziya, Libya

Working languages:Arabic, French, English

Current position/functions

Professor of International Law, Human Rights and Diplomatic Law

Director of the International Studies Programme, Academy of Higher Studies

Director of International Relations, Research Centre

Member of the Board, Libyan Centre for Mediation and Arbitration

Main professional activities

Professor of international law and human rights at Libyan universities, the Police Academy, the Judicial Training Institute and the Diplomatic Relations Institute (Foreign Affairs)

Professor at the Arab Studies and Research Institute, Cairo

Arab League

Visiting Professor at Arab and European universities

Educational background

Law degree cum laude(1973), Gargounès University (Libya)

Postgraduate diploma in international law (1976), Nice University

PhD in international law cum laude(1982), Nice University

Participation in the “San Remo” courses, The Hague Academy of International Law

United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Geneva

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

Professor of Human Rights

Founding member of the Libyan Human Rights Association

Member of the Libyan legislation commissions

Member of the compensation committees

List of most recent publications in the field

Study on democracy and human rights, Germany, June 2006

Book on torture and law TRIP (in Arabic), 2006

Book entitled Les droits de l’homme: une étude sur les concepts, 2006

Book on Libya and human rights (in Arabic), August 2006

Yuji I WASAWA

Date and place of birth:4 June 1954; Tokyo, Japan

Working l anguages:Japanese, English, French, German

Current position/function

Professor of International Law, University of Tokyo Faculty of Law, Japan

Judge, Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal

Member, Permanent Group of Experts under the WTO Agreement on Subsidies

General Editor, International Law from Japanese Perspectives Series (Nijhoff)

Refugee Examination Counsellor for the Japanese Minister of Justice

Main p rofessional activities

Rapporteur, Committee on International Human Rights Law, International Law Association, 1995-2004; presented reports at biennial conferences of the Association, 1996 (Helsinki), 1998 (Taipei), 2000 (London), 2002 (New Delhi), 2004 (Berlin)

Member (state-nominated), United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 2002-2004

Director of Planning, International Law Association Japan Branch

Director of Planning, Japanese Association of International Economic Law

Editor, Chinese Journal of International Law

Editor, Journal of International Economic Law

Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, Cambridge, 1991-1993, 1997, 2000-2001

Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, 2000-2001

Lectured on “Domestic Application of International Law” at the Hague Academy of International Law, 2002

Education al background

1984-1986University of Virginia School of Law (S.J.D.)

1977-1978Harvard Law School (LL.M.)

1973-1977University of Tokyo Faculty of Law (LL.B.)

1983, 1990, 1992Summer Session, Hague Academy of International Law

1983Study Session, International Institute of Human Rights

Other main activities

Lecturer of International Human Rights Law, Asia-America Institute of Transnational Law, Hong Kong, 1996

Lecturer of International Human Rights Law to Japanese judges, Tokyo, 2005

Member, Committee on International Human Rights Law and Practice, International Law Association; participated in special conferences of the Committee, 1999 (Bellagio), 2003 (Turku), 2006 (Maastricht)

Member, Executive Council, Japanese Society of International Human Rights Law

Academic Advisor for the Japanese Member of the United Nations International Law Commission, Geneva, 1997

Read a paper at an international conference on the Enforcement of International Human Rights by Domestic Courts, Siena, 1993

Read a paper at an international conference on the Future of United Nations Human Rights Treaty System, Cambridge, 1997

Read a paper on International Law in the Japanese Legal Order at an annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., 1997

Participated in the Experts Group Meeting on Disabilityorganized by the United Nations,Berkeley, 1998

Publications

International Law, Human Rights, and Japanese Law: The Impact of International Law on Japanese Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)

Domestic Applicability of Treaties: What Are “Self-Executing” Treaties? (Tokyo, 1985)

Lectures on International Law (co-edited, Tokyo, 2004)

Dispute Settlement in the WTO (Tokyo, 1995)

T rilateral Perspectives on International Legal Issues: Conflict and Coherence (co-edited, Washington, D.C.: American Society International Law, 2003)

Maria Leonor JOAQUIM

Nationality:Mozambican

Date of birth:29.06.1953

Educational qualifications:License in Law

The main professional experience

Lawyer with 25 years of experience in the field of international law. In this sphere of action I am dealing with human rights, crime prevention and criminal justice, industrial and intellectual property treaties

I worked as Deputy Director of the Consular and Legal Division; responsible for work coordination from 1994 to 2000

I was posted in Washington D.C. as Counsellor from 2000 to 2003

Head of Legal Department from 2003 to now

I managed Mozambican accession to the following international instruments:

Madrid Agreement, Madrid Protocol, Paris Convention, WIPO Convention, United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Convention against All Forms of Discrimination against Women, United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the three Protocols, Convention on the Law of the Sea, International Convention against All Forms of Discrimination, Protocol on Civil and Political Rights; I attended to many international meetings and conferences on issues like human rights, crime prevention and criminal justice and the law of the sea

Walter K Ä LIN

Date of birth:20 May 1951, Zurich, Switzerland

Nationality:Swiss

Marital status:Married to Roswitha Meyer, two children

Academic career

since 1985Professor of Constitutional and International Public Law at the Faculty of Law and Economics of the University of Bern. Main areas of researches: Human Rights Law (domestic and international), Refugee Law, Procedural Law (constitutional courts)

1995-1996Dean of the Faculty and Head of Legal Department

1978-1982Assistant to Professor J.P. Müller at the Institute of Public Law of the University of Bern and Counsel for refugees and asylum‑seekers on behalf of a non-governmental organization

Additional experiences

Since 2004: Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons

Since 2003: Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the Situation of Human Rights in Kuwait under the Iraqi Occupation (1991/92)

Consultant to the UNHCR (on several occasions, including studies on temporary protection 1996, and on supervisory mechanisms 2001, regular teacher at the UNHCR’s Refugee Law Courses in San Remo)

Consultant to the UNHCHR (in Indonesia 2000, on legislation in East Timor 2001/2002)

Chair of the Group of Legal Experts assisting the United Nations Representative on Internal Displacement, Dr. Francis Deng, in the preparation of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement

Consultant to the UNDP on Decentralization (Jordan 1994, Lebanon 1997, Pakistan 1998)

Consultant to the IOM (2002)

Consultant to the SDC (Swiss Development Cooperation) in Nepal (1992-today), in Pakistan (since 1998-today), in India (1999), in Kyrgyzstan (2001)

Consultant to Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs on constitution-making in Afghanistan (2002/03)

Expert of the German Constitutional Court in its asylum cases (1995/96)

Chairman of the Commission of Experts on the Constitutional Reform of the Swiss Judicial System (1995) and a member of the Steering Committee on the Swiss Constitutional Reform (1995/1996)

Member of Swiss Federal Commissions of Experts responsible for drafting a new asylum act (1990, 1993-1995), for drafting new legislation on the organization of the Swiss Federal Judicial System (1993-1995), for developing a new migration policy (1996)

Consultant to the Parliament of the Canton of Bern on a new cantonal constitution; co-author of the draft articles on human rights (1988-1992)

Professional associations

1996-2002Rapporteur of the Committee on Refugee Procedures,International Law Association

1997-2001President of the Swiss Association of International Law

1991-1996Member of the Executive Board of the Swiss Association of Law

Since 1993Member of the Council, German Society of International LawMember of the American Society of International LawMember of the Board of the Editors International Journal of Refugee LawEditorial Advisory Board, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal

Education

1985University lecturer, Faculty of Law University of Bern

1984-1985Visiting researcher at Harvard Law School

1983-1984Postgraduate studies at Harvard Law School, Cambridge/USALL.M. Harvard Law School

1982Dr. iur. (summa cum laude). Dissertation received Theodor-Kocherand Walther-Hug-Foundation awards

1979Member of the bar (Rechtsanwalt) of the Canton of Schwyz

1976-1977Training (at a court and a law firm) for the bar exam (Canton ofSchwyz)

1972-1976Legal studies at the University of Faculty of Law, Bern, lic. iur.(summa cum laude)

1971-1972Legal studies at the University of Faculty of Law, Fribourg

Languages

German, English, French

Publications

Authored books

The Principle of Non-Refoulement (Bern, 1982, in German)

The Procedure of Constitutional Review in Switzerland (1984; 2nd revised ed. 1994, in German)

Constitutional Principles of Swiss Foreign Policy (Basel 1986, in German)

Constitutional Review and Democracy (Bern 1987, in German)

Compendium of the Asylum Procedure (Basel 1990, in German)

Switzerland and the UN Human Rights Covenants (together with G. Malinverni and M. Nowak; Basel/Frankfurt 1991, in German and French; second enlarged ed. 1998)

Human Rights in Times of Occupation (together with Lara Gabriel; 1994, in English)

Basics of Public Procedural Law (together with U. Zimmerli/R. Kiener, Bern 1997, in German)

Fundamental Rights in Situations of Cultural Conflict: Freedom and Equality in Immigrant Societies (Zurich 2000, in German)

Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement - Annotations (American Society of International Law, Studies in Transnational Legal Policy No. 32, Washington D.C. 2000, in English)

Swiss Foreign Trade Aid and Human Rights Policy (together with Erika Schlaeppi, Zurich 2001, in German)

International Protection of Human Rights (together with Jörg Künzli, Basel 2005, in German)

Edited books

The Swiss Legal Order in its International Relationships (together with G. Jenny, Bern 1988, in German)

Migrations from the Third World - Causes and Effects (together with R. Moser, Bern 1989, sec. ed. 1991, third enlarged ed. 1993; in German)

Refugee Law (Droit des réfugiés; Fribourg 1991, in French)

The Notion of Law in the Constitutional Order of Swiss Cantons (together with Andreas Auer, Grüsch 1991, in German and French)

Handbook of the Constitutional Law of the Canton of Berne (together with Urs Bolz, Bern 1995, in German and French)

The Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and the Law of the South Caucasus, (together with Roberta Cohen and Erin Mooney, Washington D.C. 2003, in English)

The Face of Human Rights (together with Lars Müller and Judith Wyttenbach, Baden 2004, in English)

Articles

More than 100 articles and contributions to books (in German and English) on refugee law, international human rights, Swiss constitutional law (including questions of judicial review, federalism and local self-government), decentralization, legal aspects of Swiss foreign policy and related topics

Zonke Zanele MAJODINA

Date and place of birth:1944/09/13

Working languages:English

Current position/function

Deputy Chairperson and Commissioner at the South African Human Rights Commission

Presently responsible for the right to equality as well as the rights of non-nationals, focusing on refugees, asylum-seekers and migration policy;

I am the Commissioner responsible for coordinating the SAHRC’s programmes in the implementation of the Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination Act;

I act as Chairperson of the Commission in the absence of the Chairperson.

Main professional activities

Professional memberships

International Society for Health and Human Rights

International Association for the Study of Forced Migration

Black Management Forum South Africa

International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Institutional and Social Development Foundation, Board Member

International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

African Townships Health Advocacy Group

Africa Institute of South Africa - Member of Editorial Board

Board member of the South African Refugee Relief Fund convened by the Minister of Social Development

Recently invited to join the Hague Process on Migration and Development

Educational background

Year1999InstitutionUniversity of Cape TownCoursePhD (Clinical Psychology)

Year1972InstitutionInstitute of Psychiatry, University of LondonCourseM.Phil, Clinical Psychology (British Council Scholar)

Year1969InstitutionUniversity of South AfricaCourseB.Sc. Hons. (Psychology)

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

I have represented the SAHRC at the 2005 meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Commission (National Human Rights Institutions), 2005 United Nations Social Forum meeting, 2005 Migration Roundtable, convened by the International Migration Commission, 2004 Conference of the International Coordination Committee for National Human Rights Institutions

I have also attended African Union Conference of National Human Rights Institutions, as well as meetings, seminars and workshops organized by the Coordinating Committee of African National Institutions of Human Rights. Other activities include serving as a consultant to the International Human Rights Council in 2004, as well as participating in a meeting of experts on Anti-Discrimination in 2005

I am presently compiling the SAHRC’s comments on South Africa’s country report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

Media

Presentations on print, electronic media, TV and radio programmes on various aspects of human rights

List of most recent publications in the field

“Children growing up in war zones”, Proceedings 9th International Congress for Child Abuse and Neglect, Chicago 1992

“Effects of armed conflict and other community violence on children”, Child watch, 11, 1992

“Dealing with difficulties on return: the role of social support and coping”, Journal of refugee Studies 8 (2), 1995

“Exiles and Homecoming: the Untold Stories”, Heinenmann Publishers 1995 (translated into Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho)

“Home at Last: The Re-Entry Adaptation of Returning South African Exiles”, PhD Dissertation 1999

“The challenge of forced migration in Southern Africa”, Africa Institute of South Africa 2002

Roberto MEJÍA TRABANINO

Mr. Mejía Trabanino graduated in International Relations at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and joined afterwards the Universidad de El Salvador. He worked as a university professor of International Relations. He worked at the General External Policy Division of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of El Salvador as Director of the Human Rights Division, Director General, Director of International Organisations and in the area of Central America. He is a Career Ambassador and member of the board of examiners for the admissions to the Diplomatic Career. Between 1982 and 1984 he carried out Diplomatic posts in Mexico and Honduras.

Presidential Committee member for the Human Rights in 1994 and Representative of El Salvador 1996-1997, at the Committee of Independent Experts of the Programme for the Promotion of the Human Rights in Central America and Panama, programme coordinated by the European Union. He worked as International Relations Advisor at the National Secretariat for the Family from 1995 to 1997.

He has worked in the preparation and has participated in the defence of the reports presented by El Salvador, in fulfilment of the main International Agreements on Human Rights in the years 1999 to 2005 and he has participated in the regional courses on the elaboration of strategies for the promotion of the human rights and in the preparation of reports made in Buenos Aires 2001 and San Salvador 1998, under the sponsorship of the Office of the High Commissioner of Geneva, having also participated in several national and Central American courses and seminars on human rights and on social matters. He had under his responsibility the answers to cases presented by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights.

He was awarded a scholarship in the Ninth Course of International Law, Inter-American Legal Committee, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1982, and in the Fourth Interdisciplinary Course on Human Rights by the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, in San José, Costa Rica, 1986.

He participated in the Regional Workshop on Democracy, Human Rights and Rule of Law, of the Office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations - Geneva (San José, Costa Rica, September 2005); Regional Conference of the International Committee of the Red Cross, on missing persons (Lima, Peru, 2003) and in the meetings on the Strengthening of the Inter‑American Instruments of Human Rights, promoted by the Organization of American States (OAS) 2000-2001. He participated as well in the Regional Meeting for Latin America and the Caribbean of the World Conference on Human Rights (San José, Costa Rica, 1993) and was a member of the official delegation to the International Conference on Population and Development (El Cairo, Egypt, 1994); he participated in the Americas Summit, Miami, United States; in the Fourth Conference of Spouses of the Heads of State and of Government of the Americas, Santa Lucía; in the Meeting of the Executive Board of the Fourth Regional Conference on Women Integration, Chile.

From 1986 to 1994 he was a member of the delegation from El Salvador in the meetings of the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly; of the Commission of Human Rights and of the Subcommittee of Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities; and participated in the sessions of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States in the committee considering the matters of human rights.

Ahmed MOHAMED OMER EL MUFTI

Date and place of birth:01.01.1949, Sudan

Qualifications

Certificate in human rights, the Danish Centre for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2000

Diploma, from the United Nations Centre for Human Rights, Geneva and the International Training Centre of the ILO, Turin, Italy 1994

PhD (Law), University of Khartoum 1990 (Chevron Production Sharing Agreements)

Certificate in Computer and Law, Kuwait 1989

Certificate in International Equipment Leasing, from International Development Law Institute (IDLI), Rome, Italy 1984

Certificate in Petroleum Agreements Negotiations, International Development Law Institute (IDLI), Rome, Italy 1983

LLM-Master Degree (Law), Indiana University, United States of America 1982 (Petroleum Agreements)

Certificate in Law and Technology, Indiana University, United States of America 1981

Certificate in Law and Environment, Indiana University, United States of America 1981

Certificate in International Law, Legislative and Treaty Drafting, London 1978, Overseas Development Ministry (ODM)

The Legal Profession Examination Certificate 1973

LLB (honours), University of Khartoum 1973

Experience

Secretary General of the Organization of Khartoum International Centre for Human Rights (O.KICHR) which membership as of October 2005 is 4,616 members, 2005

Member of the Advisory Council for Human Rights as of 1994

Former Undersecretary, Ministry of Justice 2000-2002

Member of Sudan Bar Association as Advocate and Commissioner for Oaths as of 2002

Member of Sudanese Jurists Union as of 1998

Chairman of the Committee for the Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children (CEAWC) as of January 2002

Director General of Khartoum International Centre for Human Rights (KICHR) as of January 2002

Member of the Permanent Commission for the Protection of Freedom of Journalists at the Federation of Arab Journalists in Cairo as of 2000

Member of the Sudanese Inter-Religious Dialogue Association (SIRDA), as of November 1999

Former Rapporteur of the Coordination Committee and the Advisory Council for Human Rights, Sudan 1992-2000

Solicitor General for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Ministry of Justice as of 1998-2000

Member of the Sudan delegation to the annual sessions of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights 1993-2002

Member of the Sudan delegation to the United Nations General Assembly 1993-2001

Member of the Sudan delegation to the annual sessions of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Geneva 1993-1997

Member of the Sudan delegation to the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna 1993 and its preparatory meetings

Member of the Sudan delegation to the World Conference against Racism in South Africa

Member of the Sudan delegation to the Child Conference in Winnipeg, Canada

Have extensive experience in preparing and discussing reports before the treaty bodies, in particular reports under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Head of the Sudan delegation accompanying all the Rapporteurs of the Commission on Human Rights who have visited the Sudan 1992-2000

Member of the Sudan delegation to many regional human rights activities under the auspices of the African Commission or the Organization of the Islamic Countries

Supervisor for many postgraduate degrees in human rights

Key speaker in many human rights functions undertaken by national and international institutions such as the Training and Legal Reform Institute, the Judiciary, the Bar Association, the High Military Academy, the UNICEF, Red Cross (ICRC), the OHCHR in Khartoum

Instructor in the technical assistance programme of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Khartoum

Certificate of Appreciation from Vereninging Humanitarian Projection (International NGO) for participating in teaching and organizing the course entitled “International Human Rights Law for Lawyers and Judges”, 1998

Chairman of the Legal Experts Committee of the 1GAD, which has undertaken the restructuring of the 1GAD

A promoter of the World Council of Religious Leaders which is a direct outcome of The Millennium World Peace Summit, Bangkok, Thailand

Published works

Article

“International Legal Framework for Human Rights Law” (the Justice Journal published by Sudan Ministry of Justice) Second year, Third Issue.

Books

Background Information About Human Rights, copyright 54/2001 (in English)

Thematic Analysis of International Human Rights Instruments: Inventory of Human Rights Standards, copyright 55/2001 (in English)

The International Standards and Measures for the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, copyright 57/2001 (in English)

The International Standards and Measures for the Protection of the Rights of the Child, copyright 58/2001 (in English)

Initiative for Constructive Interaction Between International Human Rights Standards and Religions, copyright 56/2001 (in English)

Basic International Human Rights Instruments, July 2002

Guidelines on the Form and Contents of Reports to be Submitted by States Parties to the International Human Rights Treaties, August 2002

General Comments and General Recommendations Adopted by Human Rights Treaty Bodies, October 2002

Basic Reference for Child Rights, October 2002

Basic Reference for Civil and Political Rights, November 2002

Basic Reference for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, November 2002

Basic Reference for Women Rights, November 2002

Study, “The International Norms and Practices for the Establishment of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights”, Published in the Training and Law Reform Institute Magazine (AL-Gistas) 2001

Book, Human Rights Monitoring, 2004

Teaching experience

School of Law, University of Khartoum 1983

High Institute for Environmental Studies, Khartoum 1985

External examiner and supervisor of many post-graduate human rights studies

Training and Law Reform Institute

Social status

Married since 1982 and have six boys and two girls

Iulia Antoanella MOTOC

Civil status:Married, one child

Present position: Professor of Public International Law, University of Bucharest

Lawyer, Bucharest Bar

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Genome and Human Rights

Education

1996-1999PhD (Doctorat) in Philosophy (Moral Philosophy)University of Bucharest, Department of Philosophy

1997-1998Habilitation in Law, University Paris XI, “Jean Monnet” Department

1991-1996S.J.D. (Doctorat) in International Public LawUniversity Aix-Marseille III, School of Law (suma cum laude)

1992-1993Studies in French Modern Literature, University Aix-Marseille I

1990-1991LL.M (DEA) in International Public Law, University Aix-Marseille III, School of Law

1985-1989LL.B, University of Bucharest, School of Law (suma cum laude)

Experience with international organizations

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Genome and Human Rights (2004-present)

Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission for Human Rights for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2001-2004)

President of the Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, United Nations (2000-2001)

Member of the Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, United Nations (2000-present)

Alternate Member, Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (1996-2000)

President, Working Group on Administration of Justice, United Nations (2002-present)

Member, Working Group on Exterme Poverty and Human Rights, United Nations (2003-present)

Member, Working Group for Indigenous Peoples, United Nations (2000-2004)

Member, Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, United Nations (1999‑2000, 2003)

Member, Social Forum, United Nations (2005)

Member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Council of Europe (1998-2004)

Previous positions

Prosecutor, Giurgiu Court (1989-1990)

Judge, Bucharest Court (1990-1995)

Lecturer, University of Bucharest (1996-1998)

Reader, University of Bucharest (1998-2002)

International academic experience

Visiting Professor/Researcher:

University Paris XI (1996, 1997, 1998)

University St-Thomas Miami (2001, 2002, 2003)

University of Michigan (1998)

Catholic University of Milan (1997)

Université Libre de Bruxelles (1998)

Institute for Human Sciences, Wien (1999)

New York University School of Law (2003-2004)

Yale University School of Law (2004-present)

European Institute, Florence (2006)

Member, Board of the European Society of International law

Member, Scientific Board, Revue Québécoise de droit international

Member, Scientific Board, College of Europe, TMC Asser Institute of International Law, Netherlands

Member, International Board of Scholars and Practitioners, School of Law, University of Melbourne

Member, International Scientific Board, Journal of International Relations and Development

Member International Law Association - Working Group Biotechnologies and International Law

Co-editor (International Law and International Relations), Polis, (1996-1999)

Management in education experience

Deputy Dean, Political Science Department, University of Bucharest (1998-1999)

Scientific Director, Political Science Department, University of Bucharest (1996-1998)

National Expert on Law, Leonardo Program, European Union (1997-1999)

Fellow, Civic Education Project Romania (1997-1998)

Scientific Director, Romanian Diplomatic Academy (2002-2003)

Teaching experience

Public International Law

Human Rights Law

Jurisprudence

European Constitutional Law

NGO experience

President, Association Prix Femmes d’Europe, Romania (2000-2002)

Lectures for Amnesty International, FIDH, ATD-Quart Monde, CONGO, Institute for Non‑Alignment Studies

Main publications

Books

Uniunea Europeana: Dreptul si politica largirii la Est (European Union: The Law and the Politics of Eastwards Enlargement), Paideia, Bucharest, 2001

Teoria relaţiilor internaţionale: sursele filosofiei legale si morale (Theory of International Relations: the Moral and Legal Philosophy Traditions), Paideia, Bucharest, 2001

Interpréter la guerre, les exceptions de l`article 2 & 4 de la Charte O.N.U devant le Conseil de securité - Babel Publishing House, Bucharest, 1997

Droit international public, précis (co-author), University of Bucharest Press, 1996

In book format

Les rapporteurs spéciaux étatiques de l’ONU in E. Decaux,  Les Nations Unies et les droits de l’homme, Pedone, Paris, 2005

The Responsability of State and the Individual: Controversial aspects of the right to democracy, Thesaurus Acroasium, Thessaloniki, 2004

Taking Democracy Seriously: The Normative Challenges to the International Legal System in S. Griller (eds., International Economic Governance and Non-Economic Concerns, Springer Vienna-New York, 2003 (co-author)

Governacao sem Governo: O Desafio Normativo do Direito Internacional (co-author) in A. Stone Sweet et al. (ed.) Cidadania e Novos Poderes numa Sociedade Global, Calouste Gulbekian, Lisbon, 2000, pp. 19-39

L’Europe Unie et l’Europe d’après le communisme: rationalité et éthique de l’élargissement, in E.Barnavi, Les frontières de l ’Europe, ed. de Bloeck, Wesmael, Bruxelles, 2001

Women and Legal Justice: the European Context in Women and the Administration of Justice, Tokyo, 2001

Europe and its teleology. Is there a Central-Eastern Vision? in C. Jorges, Y. Meny, J.H.H. Weiler (eds.), What Kind of Constitution for What Kind of Polity, Responses to J. Fischer, European Institute Florence, Harvard School of Law, 2000

Les critères politiques dans le Parteneriat avec les Pays d’Europe Centrale et Orientale in M.F. Labouz (eds.), Le Parteneriat de l’Union Européenne avec les Etats Tiers, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2000

La prévention et la répression du génocide et la conception sur la justice: le droit international entre lege ferenda et utopie” in, K. Bustany, D. Dormoy (eds.), Génocide(s), ed. Bruylant, Bruxelles, 1999

“Ne diritto ne potere, overe quando il semipresidenzialisme passa all`Est” (co-author) in A. Giovannelli (ed.) Il semipresidentialismo: dall`arcipelago europeo al dibattito italiano, Gianpichelli, Turin, 1999

“De ce intelectualul est-european îl preferă pe Hayek lui Aron? (The Raymond Aron`s legacy in Eastern Europe in R. Aron, Un spectator angajat (Le Spectateur engagé) (commented ed.), Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest, 1999

“Rule of Law and Moral Law in International Relations: Common Sense, Political Realism, Scepticism” in R. Gerin, P. Jedlikova (eds.) A Decade of Transformation, IWM, Wien, 1999

“Manifestul Partidului Comunist, Totalitarismul, Statul de drept posttotalitar, trei feţe ale refuzului modernităţii politice” (The Manifesto of the Communist Party, Totalitarism and Post‑Totalitarian Rule of Law - Three Dimensions of Political Modernity Rejection) in Karl Marx, F. Engels, Manifestul Partidului Comunist (Manifesto of the Communist Party) (commented ed.), Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998

“Karl Popper şi răspunderea intelectualilor în postcomunism’’ (Karl Popper and the intellectuals responsiblity in post-Communism) in K. Popper, Lecţia acestui secol (La lezzione di questo siecolo) (commented ed.), Bucharest, Nemira Publishing House, Bucharest, 1998

“De l`histoire des mentalités aux études politiques: l`histoire de la rencontre” en Pouvoir et mentalités, Mélanges en honneur d`Alexandru Duţu, Babel Publishing House, 1999

Articles in journals

“Crearea unui Tribunal International pentru fosta Iugoslavie” (The Creation of an International Criminal Court for Former Yugoslavia), Revista romană de drept umanitar (Romanian Review of Humanitarian Law), 1/1995

“Independenţa şi imparţialitatea justiţiei în Convenţia Europeană a Drepturilor Omului” (The independence and the impartiality of justice in the European Convention of Human Rights), Revista Romană de Drepturile Omului (Romanian Human Rights Review), 10/1995

“NATO: alianţă sau concert de naţiuni?” (NATO: alliance or concert of nations?), Sfera Politicii, 40/1996

“Recomandarea 1201 şi interpretările ei” (The 1201 Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly recommendation on minorities issues and its interpretations), Sfera Politicii, 41/1996

“Raidurile in Irak şi hegemonismul american” (The US airstrikes in Iraq and the US foreign policy), Sfera Politicii, 42/1996

“Ce pot liberalii?” (What about the liberals?), Sfera Politicii, 45/1996

“Le pouvoir interpretatif du Conseil de sécurité”, Revue Roumaine de Sciences Juridiques, 1/1996

“Sofism şi drept international” (Sophism and International Law), Polis, 2/1996

“Politica externă a Romaniei faţă de NATO” (The Romanian Foreign Policy towards NATO), Polis, 1/1997

“Disputa liberalilor: cîteva consideraţii asupra analizei filosofice a relaţiilor internaţionale” (The Liberal Dispute - A few remarks on the philosophical analysis of International Relations), Polis, 3/1997

“Stiinţa politică şi politica: Wertfreiheit şi Genealogie” (Political Science and Politics: Wertfreiheit and Genealogy), Polis, 4/1997

Dreptul International si democratia (International Law and Democracy), Romanian Journal of International Law (forthcoming)

European Tradition and European Society of International: some remarks about the totalitarian legacy, Baltic yearbook of International Law (forthcoming 2006)

Working papers and reports for the United Nations

Reports on the situations of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo(2002, 2003, 2004)

Working papers and reports on Human Rights and Human Genome (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)

Working paper on standards settings and indigenous people (2003)

Working paper on free prior and informed consent of indigenous people - With Tentebba Foundation (2004, 2005)

Working papers and reports on extreme poverty (with the Working Group on Extreme Poverty) (2003, 2004, 2005)

Working paper on non-State actors and human rights (co-author) (2005)

Languages

Romanian (mother tongue), French (fluent), English (fluent), Spanish (fair), German (understanding), Italian (understanding)

Murade Isaac Miguigy MURARGY

Born:10 May 1946

Place:Manjacaze-Gaza Province-South of Mozambique

Nationality:Mozambican

Education:Master of LawFaculty of Law of Lisbon

Diplomatic career

1976Join the Foreign Ministry as Legal Counsellor

1980Promoted as career Ambassador

1980-1983Director for Legal and Consular Affairs

1980Served also as Chief of Protocol

1983-1985Director of International Organizations and Conferences

1985-1995Ambassador to France and UNESCO

1985-1995Non-resident Ambassador to Switzerland, Germany, United Nations in Geneva, Iran, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Senegal and Palestine

1995Secretary-General of Presidency of the Republic with the rank of Minister

2006Ambassador of Mozambique to Brazil

International conferences

1978-1979OAU Summits

1977-1984United Nations General Assembly - First, Fifth and Sixth Commissions

1977-1984Law of the Sea

1979-1983Commission on Human RightsServed in 1983 as Rapporteur of the Commission

1978-1980Indian Ocean Ad-Hoc Commission

1980Group of 77

1985Non-Aligned Movement

1987-1992UNCTAD Meetings

1988World Health Conference

Passport details

Diplomatic Passport Nr. A 000161

Issued:23/09/93 - Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Validity:30/09/98

Jorge Eduardo PAN CRUZ

Date and place of birth:Uruguay, 5 June 1949

Working languages:Spanish, English

Current position/functions

President of the Institute of Legal and Social Studies of Uruguay (IELSUR)

Independent legal practice

Main professional activities

1999-2006President of the Institute of Legal and Social Studies of Uruguay

2001-2005Judicial activities: (a) litigation before family courts and tribunals to secure the international return of minors from Argentina and Paraguay; (b) amparoproceedings against the Ministry of Education and Culture, freedom of expression case; (c) civil suits against the State for torture of detainees in police custody; (d) appeal to the Supreme Court of Justice against interference by the executive branch in proceedings for the extradition of persons accused of crimes against humanity in Argentina

Academic qualifications

1981Doctor of Law and Social Science, University of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay

1977Attorney

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

1998 and 2001Representation of complainants and follow-up of cases before the HumanRights Committee with a view to obtaining just compensation for crimes against humanity

1987-1991Civil actions against the executive branch (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ministry of National Defence) invoking international treaties safeguarding the basic human rights of victims and relatives of detainees and disappeared detainees

Presentation of actions for diplomatic protection before the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on behalf of disappeared detained Uruguayan citizens inArgentina, Chile and Paraguay

1985Legal assistance and advice to victims and relatives of victims of repression in criminal and civil proceedings

Most recent publications in the field

2004

Políticas públicas en Derechos Humanos - Un Compromiso Regional, Observatorio de Políticas Públicas de Derechos Humanos en el MERCOSUR, 2004; article on the right to information

1998

Co-author of the compilation Instrumentos Internacionales Universales y Regionales Vigentes en el Ordenamiento Jurídico Interno de la República Oriental del Uruguay, sponsored and financed by the Embassy of the Netherlands and sponsored by the Supreme Court of Justice

José Luis Néstor PÉREZ SÁNCHEZ-CERRO

Date and place of birth:Lima, Peru,26 February 1950

Working languages:Spanish, English

Current position/functions

Ambassador of Peru to Colombia. Lecturer in international criminal law, international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Member of the Human Rights Institute (Peru)

Main professional activities in the area of human rights

Director-General of Human Rights and Social Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru. Vice-President of the National Human Rights Council of Peru. Vice‑President of the National Commission on International Humanitarian Law of Peru. Invited by the Commission on Constitutional Reform of the Congress of Peru (2002) to provide expert advice on the chapters on human rights and treaty law. Representative of Peru at many international meetings and conferences on human rights and international humanitarian law held by the United Nations and the inter-American system

Academic qualifications

Lawyer, Degree in International Relations, career diplomat, Doctorate in Political Science, doctoral studies in juridical sociology and political institutions, diplomas in international law from the International Human Rights Institute (Strasbourg, France), The Hague Academy of International Law and the Inter-American Juridical Committee

University teaching posts

Course in “International Protection of Human Rights” for master’s degree in international relations, Escuela de Gobierno, University of San Martín de Porres. Lecturer on “Introduction to Juridical Sciences”, Diplomatic Academy of Peru. Assistant Professor of Diplomatic Law, Law Faculty of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Lecturer in international human rights law in the judiciary, the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the armed forces, the Diplomatic Academy and universities in Peru and abroad

Publications

Author of numerous articles on international law, human rights and foreign policy. Forthcoming: Los Derechos Humanos y su Protección Internacional, two volumes

Alejandro Enrique SALINAS RIVERA

Nationality:Chilean

Profession:Lawyer, since 1989

Date and place of birth:21 December 1961, Temuco, Cautin Province

Professional experience

2004-2005Legal adviser on International Affairs of the Public Defender’s Office

2003-2004Director of International Affairs Unit of the National Prosecutor’s Office

2002-2004Chairperson-Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights Consultative Group on “the Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparations for victims of gross violations of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law”

2000-2003Director (Ambassador) of the Human Rights Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1999University of Chile (Santiago, Chile). Visiting professor Seminar on Human Rights, Faculty of Law

1998-2000Legal adviser on Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1998-2002Alternate Member of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention on Discrimination and Protection of Minorities

1996-1997University of La República (Santiago, Chile). Visiting professor, course of Introduction to Law

1996-1998Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chile), Human Rights Unit. Legal adviser

1995-1996South American Commission of Peace (Santiago, Chile). Academic coordinator, external consultant of the United Nations Development Programme

1995‑1996Consulting of United Nations Human Rights Centre (Geneva, Switzerland) Legal adviser, expert on International Human Rights Law

Responsibilities:

Participating as an expert on technical assistance to the Government of Equatorial Guinea

1995University Diego Portales, Faculty of Juridical Sciences (Santiago, Chile) Professor of Economic, Social and Cultural Human Rights

1994-1995International Commission of Jurists (Geneva, Switzerland)Assist the Legal Office

Responsibilities:

Assistant to the Latin America’s Legal Official

Represent the International Court of Justice before United Nationsworking groups

Draft reports

1991-1993Department of Co-operatives, Ministry of Economy (Santiago, Chile) Legal adviser

Responsibilities:

Expert on Co-operative Law

Draft reports and the first project of the new Co-operative Act

Promoting development of co-operatives

1990-1991National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation (Santiago, Chile) Legal adviser

Responsibilities:

Investigate and draft reports on human rights violations

1988-1990Vicaria de la Solidaridad, Archbishop of Santiago (Santiago, Chile)Legal adviser

1985-1988Banco de Crédito e Inversiones, Legal Department (Santiago, Chile)Legal assistant

1983-1985Department of Intellectual Rights, University of Chile (Santiago, Chile)Legal assistant

1982-1983“Laiz, Mendía & Morales” Law Firm (Santiago, Chile)Legal assistant

Studies

1993‑1994University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame Law School (Notre Dame IN, United States of America). LLM International Law (Magna cum Laude)

1989-1991Post-grade on Laboral Law and Social Sciences (Santiago, Chile) Programa de Economia del Trabajo-PET & University of Lovaina (Belgium)

1987University of Salamanca, Faculty of Law (Salamanca, Spain) Law degree

1981-1986University of Chile, Faculty of Law (Santiago, Chile) Law degree

Other courses, studies, seminars and activities

2005Delegate of Human Rights Watch at the presentation of a report about measures adopted to combat terrorism by the Government of Spain

Delegate of the Public Defender’s Office as well as member of Chile’s Official Delegation to the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (Bangkok, Thailand)

2004Delegate of the National Prosecutor’s Office to the Regional Preparatory Meeting to the 11th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (San Jose, Costa Rica)

Delegate of Chile before the Committee against Torture at the presentation of the Third National Report of Chile (Geneva)

International Diploma on State of Law and Justice Reform, organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, the California Western School of Law and the International Heidelberg Center

2003Delegate of the National Prosecutor’s Office before the First Meeting of MERCOSUR’s Public Ministries (Montevideo, Uruguay)

Delegate of the National Prosecutor’s Office before the Ibero‑American Association of Public Ministries (Madrid, Quito and Cartagena de Indias) as well as drafter of the Institutional Agreement which establish the Ibero‑America’s Virtual Prosecutor Office

Delegate of the National Prosecutor’s Office before the XXXIII OAS General Assembly (Santiago, Chile)

Delegate of the National Prosecutor’s Office before the 8th Annual Conference of the International Association of Prosecutors IAP (Washington DC)

2002Delegate of Chile before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, 58th period of sessions (Geneva)

Chairperson-Rapporteur on the Principles and Guidelines on “the Right to a Remedy and Reparations for victims of gross violations of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law” (Geneva)

Delegate of Chile before the United Nations ad hoc Working Group on the Strengthening of the mechanisms for promotion and protection of human rights (San José, Costa Rica)

2001Delegate of Chile before the Asian Regional Preparatory Meeting to the United Nations Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance (Tehran, Iran)

Delegate of Chile before the United Nations Conference against Racism (Durban, South Africa)

Delegate of Chile before the Government of Peru to observe the situation of Chilean citizens accused of terrorism acts (case Castillo Petruzzi and others)

Delegate of Chile before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child at the presentation of the Second National Report (Geneva)

Chief of Delegation of Chile before the Government of New Zealand to establish a political dialogue on human rights, indigenous policies and justice

2000General Coordinator of the United Nations Americas Regional Preparatory Meeting against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Forms of Intolerance (Santiago, Chile)

1999Alternate Agent of Chile before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (case film “The Last Temptation of Christ”)

Agent of Chile before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (Washington DC)

Chief of Delegation before the United Nations Human Rights Committee at the presentation of the Fourth National Report of Chile (New York)

Chief of Delegation before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination at the presentation of the 14th National Report of Chile (Geneva)

Chief of Delegation of Chile before the Government of the People’s Republic of China to establish a political dialogue on human rights matters

1999-2000Chief of Delegation of Chile before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights

Delegate of Chile before the Government of Brazil to negotiate a treaty to transfer Chilean citizens condemned for political crimes (kidnapping of Adilio Dinis)

1998Delegate of Chile before the United Nations Diplomatic Conference on the establishment of an International Criminal Court (Rome)

Delegate of Chile before the OAS General Assembly: years 1999, 2000 and 2001

Delegate of Chile before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights: years 1997 and 1998

1997Delegate of Chile before the United Nations Second Seminar/Workshop on the establishment of a Permanent Forum for Indigenous People (Santiago, Chile)

Seminar: The Inter-American system on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, organized by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Washington DC, United States of America)

1996Course on International Refugee Law, Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law, organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile

1995IV Course of International Refugee Law (Santiago, Chile), organized by the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

1993World Conference on Human Rights (Vienna)

1992Advanced Course on International Human Rights Law, organized by the University Andres Bello, University Diego Portales and the Human Rights Institute of the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) (Santiago, Chile)

Former Chairperson of Amnesty International’s Chilean Section

Former legal adviser of the NGO Chilean Commission of Human Rights

Member of the Ombudsman’s Chilean Chapter

Languages

Fluent in Spanish and English

French: speak and read

Santiago, May 2005

Hipólito SOLARI‑YRIGOYEN

Place and date of birth:Buenos Aires, Argentina, 23 July 1933

Working languages:Spanish, French, English

Current position

Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee (1999-2002, 2003-2006)Currently Committee’s Vice-Chairperson

Professional background

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Argentina (2000)

National Senator (1973-1976 and 1987-1995).

Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the National Senate of the Republic of Argentina

Ambassador at Large of the Republic of Argentina (1983-1987)

Secretary of State and Presidential Advisor (1983-1987)

Chair of Nuevos Derechos del Hombre (New Human Rights), NGO with ECOSOC consultative status

Member of the International Jurists Commission (Geneva, Switzerland)

Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (1988-1993)

Vice-Chairman of the Latin American Inter-Parliamentary Commission on Human Rights (Santiago, Chile, 1991-1995)

University degrees and graduate studies

Lawyer (University of Buenos Aires)

Doctorate in Law and Social Sciences (University of Buenos Aires)

Degree in Superior Studies in International Economy (Paris University, Sorbonne)

Degree from the International Centre of Superior Studies of Journalism of Latin America (CIESPAL, Quito, Ecuador)

Degree in Spanish Information (Institute of Spanish Co-operation, Madrid, Spain)

Other main activities in related fields

UNHCR Representative to the Preparatory Meetings and the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (South Africa, September 2001)

Head of the Argentine Delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Conferences of Guatemala (1988), Budapest (1989) and Canberra (1993); Delegate (1988-1995)

Chairman of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Peace Commission for Bosnia and Herzegovina and other territories of the former Yugoslavia (1994)

Representative of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to the Red Cross World Conference (Geneva, 1995)

Humanitarian missions for Amnesty International (London), for the Inter-Parliamentary Union (Geneva) and the International Jurists Commission (Geneva)

Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington) commissioned to write a paper on human rights. On that occasion, he wrote the book Human Dignity

As a result of his parliamentary and extra-parliamentary struggle in defence of human rights, during his mandate as a National Senator in 1973-1976, Senator Solari Yrigoyen was made victim of terrorist attacks in 1973 and 1975. After the military coup d’etat in 1976, he was again victim of a third attempt against his life. He was kidnapped and missing, and finally recognized as a political prisoner without judicial process until he was expelled from his country and forced to live in exile for six years.

Recent publications

La Dignidad Humana [Human Dignity], Eudeba, Universidad de Buenos Aires, December 1998

Towards Implementing Universal Human Rights. Festschrift for the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Human Rights Committee. Collaboration. The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden/Boston 2004

Carlos VILLÁN DURÁN

Date and place of birth:Campo de Caso (Asturias, Spain), on 22 May 1950

Working languages:Spanish (mother tongue), English and French

Current position/functions

2006-2007Visiting Professor, Alcala University (Madrid)

Since 2004 Founder and Chairperson, The Spanish Society for the Advancement of International Human Rights Law

Since 2004 Co-Director, Master on Protection of Human Rights (Alcala University)

Since 2005 Adjunct Professor, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University (Washington)

Since 1987 Invited Professor, International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg)

Main professional activities

Since 2005 Lecturer, researcher and consultant on International Human Rights Law

1982-2005 Staff member, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Geneva): Human Rights Research Project Leader on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1998-2005); Coordinator, Working Group on Latin American and Caribbean Countries for technical cooperation in the field of human rights (1990-1998); Assistant to various Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteurs - both thematic and geographic - (1982‑1990). Drafter of 51 reports submitted to different United Nations human rights bodies, including the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and its Sub-Commission

1982-2006 Participated in 170 international conferences and events on IHRL

1979-1982 Professor on Public International Law, Leon University (Spain)

1972-1979Assistant Professor on Public International Law, Oviedo University (Spain)

Educational background

2006 Completed doctorate studies (third cycle) (Oviedo University)

1981 Diploma cum laude, International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg)

1979 Diploma of the Center for International Studies, The Hague Academy of International Law

1973-1981 Intensive post-graduate fellowship programme in ILO, United Nations, Council of Europe and IIHR (Strasbourg)

1967-1972 Law Degree, Oviedo University (Spain)

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

Since 2005 Member of the Editorial Board, Revista Iberoamericana de Derechos Humanos (Mexico)

Since 2002 Member of the International Institute Jacques Maritain (Rome)

Since 1994 Member of the American Society of International Law

Since 1993 Member of the Latin American Society for the Ombudsman

Since 1992 Member of the International Institute of Human Rights (Strasbourg)

Since 1981 Member of the Spanish Association for Human Rights

Since 1972 Member of the Spanish Society of International Law and Relations’ Teachers

List of most recent publications in the field

Author of 102 publications in the field of IHRL, among them (in their original language):

2006: “Curso de Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos” (Madrid, Trotta, 2002; reprinted 2006, p. 1,028); “Prácticas de Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos” (Madrid, Dilex, p. 450); “Las quejas individuales ante et Comité de Derechos Humanos. Reglas de procedimiento. Jurisprudencia sobre acceso a la justicia y et derecho al debido proceso” (Mexico); “Las obligaciones de los Estados en materia de educaciôn en derechos humanos” (Mexico); “La protecciôn internacional de los derechos humanos en et sistema de las Naciones Unidas y de sus organismos especializados” (Strasbourg); “Las Naciones Unidas ante et nuevo escenario preventivo: et reto de los derechos humanos” (San Sebastian); “The United Nations Commission on Human Rights machinery for the protection of human rights” (The Netherlands); “El sistema universal de protecciôn de los derechos humanos” (Mexico, 83139); “Luces y sombras del nuevo Consejo de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas” (Madrid)

2005: “La protecciôn convencional de los derechos humanos en et sistema de las Naciones Unidas” (Rev. D. Migratorio y Extranjeria, 10, 89-116); “Los derechos humanos y la inmigraciôn en et marco de las Naciones Unidas” (Leon, 149-180); “Los desafos del DIDH en et primer decenio del siglo XXI” (Madrid, Mélanges González Campos, t. I); “Los derechos humanos y su contribuciôn a la paz” (Zaragoza, 109-150); “The Right to Adequate Food and Drinking Water in International Law” (Brasilia, Mélanges Cançado Trindade, t. IV, 453-491)

2004: “Hacia una declaraciôn universal sobre et derecho humano a la paz” (Barcelona, 219241); “Los derechos humanos ante la epidemia del SIDA” (Bilbao, 765-800); “La práctica de la tortura y los malos tratos en et mundo. Tendencias actuales” (Vitoria, 33-115)

Ruth WEDGWOOD

Working languages:English and French

Current position/function

Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, and Director of the Program in International Law and Organizations, at the School for Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C.

Main professional activities

Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin

American Society of International Law, Vice-President

American Journal of International Law, Board of Editors

International Law Association, American Branch, Vice-President

World Policy Journal (New School for Social Research), Board of Editors

Freedom House, Board of Directors

Educational background

Harvard University, A.B.

Yale University, J.D.

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

University of Paris I (Sorbonne), former Visiting Professor of Law

Hague Academy of International Law, Netherlands, former Co-Director of Studies

Yale Law School, former Professor of International and Constitutional Law

Council on Foreign Relations, former Senior Fellow for International Law

United States Institute of Peace, Washington D.C., former Guest Scholar

Supreme Court of the United States, former law clerk to Mr. Justice Harry A. Blackmun

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, former law clerk to Judge Henry Friendly

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, former federal prosecutor

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, former amicus curiae

American Bar Association, Governing Council of the Section on International Law

Catholic University, Pope John XXIII Lecture

List of most recent publications in the field

“Post-Conflict Reconstruction”, in American Journal of International Law (2001); After Dayton: Lessons of the Bosnian Peace Process, editor (1999); Toward an International Criminal Court? co-author (1999); American National Interest and the United Nations, co-author (1996); The Revolutionary Martyrdom of Jonathan Robbins (1990); articles in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy

Roman WIERUSZEWSKI

Date and place of birth:Gliwice, Poland, 9 April 1947

Nationality:Polish

Family status:Married, three children

Degrees

1969 Master of Law, Adam Mickiewicz University

1973Doctor of Political Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University

1984Habilitated Doctor of Law, Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Professional and academic position

Associated Professor at the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Director of the Poznań Human Rights Centre

Vice-Chairman of Scientific Council of the Institute of Legal Studies

Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

Member of the Polish Refugee Board

Research fellow at the Polish Institute of International Affairs

EMA national director for Poland

OSCE Human Rights Expert

Member of the Legal Advisory Board of the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Warsaw

Member of the Editorial Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

Member of the Editorial Board of the Polish quarterly Legal Studies

Previous academic and professional experiences

1969-1974Assistant Teacher of Theory of Law and Political Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

1974Graduate of the Spring Session of the International Faculty of Comparative Law, Strasbourg

1975-1985Assistant Professor, Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences

1978-1979Research scholar at the London School of Economic and Political Sciences

1980Participant at the Leyden-Amsterdam-Columbia Summer Programme in American Law

1983Participant of the Teaching Session of the Hague Academy of International Law

1984Participant of the XV Study Session of the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg and XII Session of the International Centre for University Human Rights Teaching

1986Participant of the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations of the Hague Academy of International Law

1987United Nations Human Rights Fellowship in Norway and Sweden

1988/1992Visiting research fellow at the Institute of International Law, Ludwig‑Maximilian University Munich

Lectures at Marbourg, Mainz and Bochum Universities

1989-1992Expert of the Polish Parliamentary Constitutional Committee

1990Amnesty International Trial Monitoring in Ukraine

1991-1992Participant of the OSCE Human Rights Fact-Finding Missions to the Former Yugoslavia

1990-1995Director of the Foundation - Human Rights Promotion and Research in Poznan

1992-1995Head of the Former Yugoslavia unit in the United Nations Centre for Human Rights - Geneva

1996-1998Chief of Mission of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Field Operation in the Former Yugoslavia - Sarajevo

1998-2000Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

1998-2005Lectures at the Universities of Poznan, Warsaw, Lublin, Bialystok, Katowice, Torun, Cracow, Lodz, Szczecin

2002-2004Vice-Chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

Languages

English, Russian, German, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian

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