UNITED NATIONS

CERD

International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination

Distr.GENERAL

CERD/SP/68/Add.124 October 2005

ENGLISHOriginal: ENGLISH/FRENCH

MEETING OF THE STATES PARTIESTwenty-first MeetingNew York12 January 2006

election of nine members of the committee on theelimination of racial discrimination to replacethose whose terms will expire on 19 january 2006,in accordance with the provisions of article 8 of the convention

Note by the Secretary-General

Addendum

After the preparation of document CERD/SP/68, the Secretary-General received a note verbale, from the Permanent Mission of Togo to the United Nations office in New York dated 6 October 2005, informing him that the Government of Togo has decided to nominate Mr. Kokou Mawuena Ika Kana (Dieudonné) EWOMSAN for the election of members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

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Annex

Mr. Koko Mawuena Ika Kana (Dieudonné) EWOMSAN (Togo)*

Date and place of birth:

1954, Agomé - Koutoukpa

Working language:

French

Current position/function:

1992 to date: Director for the Advancement of Human Rights, Ministry for the Promotion of Democracy and Law

1995 to date: Chairman, Sub-Committee No. 6, Human Rights, Democracy and Peace, National Committee for UNESCO

Main professional activities:

September 1978-September 1992: Instructor in philosophy

April 1992-September 1993: Assistant principal, 2 February High School, Lomé

August 1984-August 1992: Secretary-General, Association of Philosophy Teachers, Chairman, committee on philosophy curricula in high schools and junior high schools

Educational background:

September 1979: Licence d’enseignement de philosophie et sciences sociales appliquées (bachelor’s degree in teaching of philosophy and applied social sciences)

September 1979: C1 de maîtrise de philosophie comparée (master’s degree course in comparative philosophy)

October 1981: C2 de maîtrise de philosophie(master’s degree course in philosophy)

Additional studies

1992-1997: Attendance at a number of national and international human rights seminars

June 1996: Training seminar on international human rights standards in the administration of justice, organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (certificate of attendance)

April 1996: Training course on the drafting and introduction of initial and periodic reports, organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (certificate of attendance)

July 1995: Training of trainers in human rights and democratic citizenship, summer school, Advanced Teachers’ Training College, Cachan, France (certificate of attendance)

Honours

28 September 1996: UNESCO Peace Games diploma

13 July 2001: Diploma in the promotion of democracy in Africa, Executive Council of the Pan-African Democracy Observatory

Other main activities in the fieldrelevant to the mandate of thetreaty body concerned:

Human rights training experience

Organized training seminars, human rights awareness-raising visits

Moderated conferences-discussions on democracy, peace, human rights, tolerance:

August 1993: Seminar on democracy and development, training and awareness-raising

August 1994-March 1996: Training seminar for prefectures on democracy, human rights, tolerance and development

February-March 1996: Conferences in high schools on democracy, peace and justice

November 1996: Human Rights and Development, UNESCO subregional seminar on democracy and human rights, Ouagadougou

August 1996: NGO Contribution to Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Amnesty International, Kpalimé

May 1998: Human Rights and Democratic Citizenship, workshop for trainee teachers, Advanced Teachers’ Training College, Atakpamé

August 1998: The Foundations of Human Rights, training seminar for members and staff of the National Human Rights Commission

October 1998: Participated in the twenty-fourth regular session of the African Commission on Human Rights and the Rights of Peoples, Banjul

November 1998: School and Human Rights Education for a Culture of Peace, subregional seminar, Federations of Schools in association with UNESCO in French‑speaking West Africa and Ghana

December 1998: Human Rights, Participation and Democratic Citizenship, training workshop, Atakpamé

December 1998: Human Rights Education, Advanced Teachers’ Training College, Atakpamé

December 1998: Importance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration, UNESCO, Paris

November 2003: Participated in the work of the UNESCO General Conference at its thirty-second session, Paris

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