Meeting of States parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
Twenty-ninth meeting
New York, 24 June 2021
Item 5 of the provisional agenda
Election, in accordance with article 8 (1)–(5) of the Convention, of nine members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to replace those whose terms of office will expire on 19 January 2022
Election of nine members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to replace thosewhose terms of office will expire on 19 January 2022
Note by the Secretary-General *
Addendum
1.In accordance with article 8 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the twenty-ninth meeting of the States parties to the Convention is to be held at United Nations Headquarters on 24 June 2021 for the purpose of electing nine members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to replace those whose terms will expire on 19 January 2022.
2.The curricula vitae of the candidates whose nominations were received by 21 February 2021 are contained in document CERD/SP/84.
3.The annex to the present note contains the curricula vitae of three additional candidates whose nominations were received after 21 February 2021. Listed below are the names of those candidates, in the order in which their nominations were received, and the States parties that nominated them.
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Name of candidate |
Nominated by |
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Ms. Marie André Traoré Kondé |
Burkina Faso |
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Ms. Mazalo Tebie |
Togo |
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Ms. Régine Esseneme |
Cameroon |
Annex
Curricula vitae *
Marie André Traoré Kondé (Burkina Faso)
[Original: French]
Date and place of birth: 30 November 1953, Dédougou, Burkina Faso
Working languages: French and English
Current position/function: Retired minister plenipotentiary
Main professional activities:
Retired minister plenipotentiary.
Member of the Bureau of the Association of Retired Ambassadors, Consuls-General and Ministers Plenipotentiary of Burkina Faso.
Advisory support for the authorities on matters of diplomacy and international relations.
Educational background:
1979–1982: Baccalauréat (secondary-school-leaving qualification), philosophy and literature option
Certificate in English (University of Cape Coast, Ghana)
Diplôme d ’ études universitaires générales (diploma obtained after two years’ study) in modern literature (Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Ouagadougou)
1982–1984: Brevet (qualification obtained after two years’ study) from the National Civil Service and Judiciary Training School, diplomacy option
1987: Diplomatic internship in Berlin, with a study trip to the Diplomatic Academy in Bonn and the European Economic Community in Brussels
1993–1996: Diplôme (qualification obtained after five years’ study) from the National Civil Service and Judiciary Training School, diplomacy option, and internship at the Embassy of Burkina Faso in Rabat.
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned:
Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, Cartagena, Colombia, 18–20 May 1998.
Twentieth special session of the United Nations General Assembly devoted to combating the world drug problem, New York, 8–10 June 1998.
Forty-second session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna, 16–25 March 1999.
Arab-African Forum against Sexual Exploitation of Children, Rabat, 24–26 October 2001.
Sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, September–December 2006.
Regular and annual sessions of the Executive Board of the United Nations Children’s Fund, New York, 2006 to 2008.
Thirty-second session of Working Group B of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Vienna, 9–27 February 2009.
Durban Review Conference, Geneva, 20–24 April 2009.
International Symposium on the Dialogue between Religions and Cultures, Ouagadougou, 3–7 March 2017.
Mazalo Tebie (Togo)
[Original: French]
Date and place of birth: 31 December 1963, Adjengré, Togo
Working languages: French, English, Kabiyè, Mina, Tem
Current position/function: Civil administrator and jurist; Director of Gender and Women’s Rights, Ministry of Social Action, the Advancement of Women and Literacy.
Main professional activities:
2007–present: Trainer in gender and legal instruments.
March 2019: participated in the sixty-third session of the Commission on the Status of Women, held at United Nations Headquarters. December 2019: participated in the meeting of countries that have developed national action plans for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) and subsequent resolutions, Dakar.
April 2018: participated in the high-level conference on women, violence and terrorism in West Africa and the Sahel, held in Dakar. March 2018: participated in a high-level meeting of countries that have developed national action plans for the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000) and subsequent resolutions, Addis Ababa.
December 2017: participated in the annual meeting of the Working Group on Women, Youth, Peace and Security in West Africa and the Sahel, held in Dakar. July 2017: participated in the second high-level political forum on sustainable development, held at United Nations Headquarters.
October–November 2016: member of the delegation that presented the report of Togo in the framework of the universal periodic review process in Geneva. August 2016: study trip on gender budgeting, Kigali. July 2016: participated in the meeting of the Bureau of the Specialized Technical Committee on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and in the African Union High Level Panel on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in preparation for the twenty-seventh Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union, held in Kigali. June 2016: participated in a workshop on techniques and guidelines for reporting under the Maputo Protocol, held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. March 2016: member of the Togolese delegation attending the sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, held at United Nations Headquarters. January 2016: participated in the meeting of the Specialized Technical Committee on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, the eighth African Union gender pre-summit on 2016, African Year of Human Rights, with particular focus on women’s rights, and the consultative meeting of African ministers prior to the sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women.
March 2015: member of the Togolese delegation attending the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women, held at United Nations Headquarters. December 2014: participated in the annual meeting of the Working Group on Women, Peace and Security in West Africa and in the Open Day on resolutions 1325 (2000), 1820 (2008) and subsequent resolutions, held in Dakar.
November 2014: participated in the ninth African Regional Conference on Women (Beijing+20), held in Addis Ababa. April 2014: participated in the regional experience-sharing conference on national action plans for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 (2000), Lagos, Nigeria.
April 2013: participated in a subregional capacity-building workshop on networking, strategic planning and formulation of a joint programme on women, peace and security in West Africa, Dakar.
October 2012: participated in the fifty-third session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (served as focal point for the preparation of the sixth and seventh periodic reports of Togo on the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) and in the preparation and presentation, as a member of the Togolese delegation, of reports on the implementation of other legal instruments for the protection and promotion of women’s rights. September 2012: co-facilitated a training workshop for ministerial gender focal points on gender mainstreaming in the sectoral policies, programmes and projects of ministerial departments. July 2012: participated in a workshop on the e-network of African gender machineries, for national teams and correspondents from the African Women’s Rights Observatory, held in Addis Ababa (national focal point of the network). January 2012: participated in the fifty-ninth session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (member of the delegation that presented the third and fourth periodic reports of Togo on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the initial report on the implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography). April 2012: participated in a training of trainers workshop on the application of a multisectoral framework to implement the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa, Nairobi.
November–December 2011: participated in the Gender Academy training programme, Turin, Italy. October–November 2011: participated in the fiftieth session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (member of the delegation that presented the third, fourth and fifth combined periodic reports of Togo on the implementation of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights), held in Banjul.
December 2010: participated in the third Ministerial Conference on the Role of Women in the Development of Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, held in Tehran. July 2010: participated in the first regional conference of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Commission’s role in promoting and protecting women’s rights, held in Bamako. March 2010: participated in the Consultative Committee meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Gender Development Centre, Dakar.
May–July 2009: participated in a meeting of stakeholders on the transposition into domestic law and implementation of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, Kigali. Participated in a meeting on gender-related practices and actions, Dakar. March 2009: participated in a workshop to present the results of a study to identify discriminatory gender-specific provisions and gender gaps in the national laws of ECOWAS member States, Banjul.
December 2008: expert at the meeting for the adoption of the gender policy of the African Union, Maseru. September–October 2008: training on gender, gender planning and gender budgeting, Lomé. May 2008: participated in the third Meeting of Women from Africa and Spain, Niamey. February–March 2008: participated in the fifty-second session of the Commission on the Status of Women, New York.
December 2007: training on gender-responsive economic decision-making in Africa (African Union), Addis Ababa. September 2007: ECOWAS gender policy and management system, Lomé. September 2007: gender and development training for decision makers and designers of development policies and programmes (West African Economic and Monetary Union), Lomé.
Educational background: Diplôme supérieur (postgraduate qualification) in public administration, National College of Administration, Lomé. Maîtrise (master’s degree) in law, University of Benin, Lomé. Licence (undergraduate degree) in law, University of Benin, Lomé. Baccalauréat (secondary-school-leaving certificate), philosophy and literature option, Sokodé, Togo.
Research and publications:
“Administrations publiques africaines et développement : cas du Togo”, dissertation for the diplôme supérieure in public administration, National College of Administration, November 2006. “Les différents types de filiations et leurs implications sur la succession”, article published in Togo-Presse (the daily newspaper of the Government of Togo), 15 June 2000. “Beijing plus cinq (05): ‘Les femmes en l’an 2000 : égalité entre les sexes, développement et paix pour le 21ème siècle’”, Togo-Presse, 15 June 2000. “A l’heure de la mondialisation : Repenser le Développement social”, Togo-Presse, 10 July 2000. “Lumière sur les programmes de développement social, la promotion et la protection de la femme et de l’enfance au Togo”; document produced in the framework of exchanges between Chinese and Togolese women, September 2000.
Professional experience:
2007–present: Director of Gender and Women’s Rights. 2004–2006: Trainee at the National College of Administration, postgraduate studies, public administration option. 2002–2004: Legal adviser to the Minister of Communication and Civic Education. 2000–2002: Technical adviser to the Minister for Social Affairs, the Advancement of Women and the Protection of Children. 1993–1999: Research Officer in the Office of the Minister of Communication and Civic Education.
Other professional responsibilities:
Chair of the Economic Freedom Committee of the Millennium Challenge Account-Togo. Chair of the Togo section of the Working Group on Women, Youth, Peace and Security in West Africa and the Sahel. Chair of the National Engagement Strategy on land governance. Member of the Interministerial Committee for the Preparation of Initial and Periodic Human Rights Reports.
Community involvement:
Bureau member of the association Engagement Citoyen pour un Développement Durable (Citizen Engagement for Sustainable Development). Women, Gender and Development Programme Officer for the non-governmental organization Observatoire Togolais de la Décentralisation et de la Gouvernance à la Base (Togolese Observatory of Decentralization and Local Governance). Member of Amis de la Diffusion du Droit (Friends of the Dissemination of the Law), an association under Togolese law established in 1999 and specializing in the promotion of human rights and civic awareness.
Régine Esseneme (Cameroon)
[Original: French]
Date and place of birth: 8 March 1961, Yaoundé
Working languages: French and English
Current position/function:
Senior Prosecutor, Commander of the National Order of Valour, performing the functions of Advocate General at the public prosecution department of the Supreme Court, having previously been Public Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal of the North.
Main professional activities:
The Public Prosecutor supervises and coordinates the administration of services provided by the public prosecution department and the four prosecution offices within the territorial jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal of the North, corresponding to the North region of Cameroon. His or her main task is to ensure the application of laws and regulations and the enforcement of court decisions.
Accordingly, I am responsible, with the cooperation of prosecutors, clerks and other officers placed at my disposal and under my authority, for:
supervising the criminal investigation officers and detectives acting within my jurisdiction
supervising prisons, including pretrial detention
supervising the activity of bailiffs and enforcement officers
As Advocate General at the Supreme Court, I am a member of the prosecution department that upholds the rule of law.
Educational background:
Diplôme d ’ études approfondies (postgraduate diploma) in law, covering criminal law, criminal procedure, civil law, civil procedure, labour law, personal and family law, commercial law, public law, public international law, private international law, business law, sociology, human rights and civil liberties.
Human rights in relation to HIV/AIDS, the fight against money-laundering; administrative writing practice and techniques; and gender-based budgeting.
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination:
Participated in the drafting of the annual report of the Ministry of Justice on the state of human rights in Cameroon and the periodic reports submitted to the human rights treaty bodies and the universal periodic review of the Human Rights Council; participated in the preparation of the State’s defence before the judicial and non-judicial mechanisms of the United Nations and the African Union.
Member of the delegation that presented the combined second and third and combined fourth and fifth periodic reports of Cameroon before the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Member of the delegation that presented the combined fifteenth to eighteenth and combined nineteenth to twenty-first periodic reports of Cameroon before the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Member of the Cameroonian delegation at the fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women.
List of most recent publications in the field:
Leaflets on: women and human rights, women and inheritance rights, and women and access to land, March 2012; the legal framework for the punishment of female genital mutilation in Cameroon, 6 February 2012; the criminalization of genital mutilation under the new Penal Code, March 2017; the protection of women under the new Penal Code of 12 July 2016, March 2017; and marriage between a rapist and his victim no longer providing an exemption from prosecution, March 2017.