Comment

CCPR

UNITED

NATIONS

 


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International Covenant on

Civil and Political Rights

 

                                                                                                                                     Distr.

                                                                                                                                     GENERAL

 

                                                                                                                                     CCPR/SP/43/Add.6

                                                                                                                                     23 August 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/SP/43). Biographical data of the person nominated, as furnished by the State party concerned, are contained in the annex to the present document.

 

 

                  Name of candidate                                                       Nominated by

 

            M. Lebohang Fine Maema                                                      Lesotho

 

 

 

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Annex

 

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

 

Mr. Lebohang Fine MAEMA (Lesotho)

 

 

Surname:                                     Maema

 

Names:                                         Lebohang Fine

 

Date of birth:                               22 July 1957

 

Place of birth:                              Maseru

 

Sex:                                              Male

 

Status:                                         Married (with three children)

 

Qualifications and

affiliations:                                  B.A. Law, 1980

 

                                                     LL.B (National University of Lesotho), 1982

 

                                                     LL.M (Cambridge), 1984

 

Advocate of the High Court of Lesotho, 1982

 

Cambridge Livingstone scholar, 1983-1984

 

                                                     Cambridge Graduate Lawyers' Society, 1982-1984

 

Director, Board of the Central Bank of Lesotho, 1991-1994

 

Professional

experience:

 

May 1993 to date                         Attorney-General

 

                                                     Principal Legal Adviser to the Government of Lesotho

 

First Law Officer of the Crown (Kings Counsel)

 

Member of the Council of State

 

Member of the Judicial Service Commission

 

Member of Parliament (National Assembly and Senate)

 

 


March 1990-April 1993                Principal Secretary for Justice and Prisons (in charge of Judiciary Department, Legal Aid Department, Prison Department and Probation Unit), Ministry of Justice and Prisons

 

Secretary, Judicial Service Commission

 

June 1989-March 1990                Private Secretary to the King, Palace; and Director, Practical Law Project

 

May 1987-May 1989                     Deputy Private Secretary to the King, Palace

 

August 1984-April 1987              Lecturer in law, National University of Lesotho

 

                                                     Courses:      Civil procedure;

                                                                           Law of contract;

                                                                           International organizations

 

1986-1987                                    Part-time lecturer, Institute of Extramural Studies, National University of Lesotho

 

1985-1986                                    Courses: Business law and law of contract

 

Relocation of division and units of Thaba Bosiu into the parent divisions of the Ministry of Agriculture

 

Preparing Thaba Bosiu staff list, proposals for absorption into the Ministry

 

 

          A list of the seminars and workshops in which the candidate has participated is available for consultation in the files of the Secretariat.

 

 

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