CCPR
UNITED
NATIONS
International covenant
on civil and
political rights
Distr.
GENERAL
CCPR/SP/43/Add.2
22 July 1994
Original: ENGLISH
MEETING OF STATES PARTIES
Fourteenth meeting
New York
8 September 1994
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 1994
Note by the Secretary-General
Addendum
The present document contains a nomination for election to the Human Rights Committee received after the submission of the list of candidates by the Secretary-General on 24 June 1994 (CCPR/C/SP.43). Biographical data of the person nominated, as supplied by the State party concerned, are contained in the annex to the present document.
Name of candidate Nominated by
Mr. Mohamed Ennaceur Tunisia
GE.94-17829 (E)
Annex
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
Mr. Mohamed Ennaceur (Tunisia)
Civil status
Born on 21 March 1934
Married; father of five children
University studies: Law
University degrees
Graduated in law (Tunis Institute for Advanced Studies);
Doctor in law: Specialization: Social Law (University of Paris Panthéon
Sorbonne)
Languages
Arabic
French
English
Professional career
Ambassador, Head of the Permanent Mission of Since September 1991
Tunisia to the United Nations Office and
International Specialized Agencies at Geneva
President of the Economic and Social Council November 1985 to
February 1991
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from November 1979 to
October 1985 and from January 1974 to December 1977
Barrister December 1977 to
November 1979
Governor June 1972 to May 1973
Responsibilities held by election
Member of the National Assembly (Parliament) 1974 - 1979
1981 - 1990
International and regional activities
1. United Nations
United Nations
Member of the UNICEF Executive Board 1963 - 1964
Member of the UNICEF Programme Evaluation 1983
Mission for India
Economic and Social Council
Representative of Tunisia in the Commission 1963 - 1966
for Social Development
Chairman of the Commission for Social 1966
Development
United Nations Research Institute for
Social Development
Member of the Board of United Nations Research 1966 - 1972
Institute for Social Development (Geneva)
Economic Commission for Africa
Head of the Tunisian delegation to the Tripoli - 1982
seventieth session of the Economic Commission
for Africa
Human Rights
Vice-Chairman of the forty-eighth session of February - March 1992
the Commission on Human Rights (Geneva)
Chairman of the forty-ninth session of the February - March 1993
Commission on Human Rights (Geneva)
Chairman/Rapporteur of the Working Group on November 1993
the Rights to Development
Humanitarian law
Member of the San Remo Institute
Member of an expert group of the International
Committee of the Red Cross
2. International Labour Organisation
Chairman of the World Employment Geneva - June 1976
Conference
Chairman of the 71st session of the Geneva - 1985
International Labour Conference
3. Non-Aligned Movement
Chairman of the Coordination Bureau to 1980 - 1985
ILO of Non-Aligned and Other Developing
Countries
4. Group of 77
Head of the Tunisian delegation to the 77 November 1991
Ministerial Conference, Tehran
Chairman of the Group of 77 at Geneva April, May, June 1992
Honours
Holder of numerous national and foreign honours.
Other activities
President/Founder of the Tunisian Association of Social Law, Director/Founder of the Tunisian Review of Social Law and Vice-President of the International Society of Labour Law and Social Security.
Publications
Author of many studies published in various specialized reviews and dealing with labour law, emigration, social policy, Europe-Maghreb relationship and human rights
Child rights: myth or reality?
(International Studies Review, 1/90);
The Tunisian Labour Code and Human Rights
(Tunisian Social Law Review, 1990);
XVIIe Round Table Conference of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law: "The evolution of the right to assistance", San Remo, 2-4 September 1992 (published in International Review of the Red Cross, No. 798 November-December 1992);
Mediterranean Conference on Human Rights, Cagliari (Sardinia)
26-29 March 1993. "The Stakes of the World Conference on Human Rights", Vienna, June 1993;
"Human Rights after the Vienna Conference" Arab Institute of Human Rights, Hammamet (Tunisia), 23 August 1993.
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