CEDAW
UNITED
NATIONS
Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women
Distr.
GENERAL
CEDAW/SP/1994/3/Add.2
11 January 1994
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
MEETING OF STATES PARTIES TO THE
CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION
OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST WOMEN
Seventh meeting
New York, 7 February 1994
Item 5 of the provisional agenda
Election, in accordance with article 17, paragraphs 4 and 5, of the
Convention of 12 members of the Committee on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women, to replace those whose terms
are due to expire on 15 April 1994
Note by the Secretary-General
Addendum
1. The Secretary-General, in compliance with article 17, paragraph 3, of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, invited the States parties to the Convention to submit their nominations by 10 November 1993, for the election of 12 members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. The 19 nominations that were received by that date were published in document CEDAW/SP/1994/3. One additional nomination was published in document CEDAW/SP/1994/3/Add.1. The Secretary-General has now received two additional nominations as follows:
Suprabha Ghimire - Nepal
Carmel Shalev - Israel
2. Biographical data concerning the above-mentioned candidates, as furnished by their Governments, are annexed hereto.
Annex
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
Ms. Suprabha Ghimire (Nepal)
Date of Birth and Place: 7 October 1941, Kathmandu, Nepal
Nationality: Nepali
Qualification: MA in English Literature,
Tribhuvan University, Nepal (1966)
Diploma: TEFL, UWIST, Cardiff, UK (1971)
DUEEF, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France (1989)
Post: Associate Professor, Central Department of English,
Tribhuvan University, Kritipur, Nepal
Professional experience: 26 years of teaching and social works
Ex-General Secretary, Nepal Women's Association (1990-91)
Ex-President, Nepal University Teachers Association (1991-93)
Ex-Member, National Education Council, HMG, Nepal (1991-92)
Currently:
I. Member, National Development Council, HMG, Nepal (since 1991)
II. Chairperson, Board of Governors, Budhanilkantha School (The National School of Higher Secondary Education of International Standard)
III. Member, Fulbright Board of Directors, USEF, Nepal (since 1991)
IV. Member, Nepal Women's Association
V. Member, Nepal University Teachers Association
VI. Member, Amnesty International
Research Work: One of the four co-workers of the UNESCO-sponsored project, "The Participation of Women in Higher Education in Nepal", submitted in 1988.
Conferences and Seminars: Active participation in various national and international seminars and conferences on linguistics and literature; and also the Quakers International Conference held in Nepal on the "Human Factors in Development during the 70s".
Political Participation: Active participation during the People's Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, 1990
Keen on: Women's development and child welfare
Travel: USA, UK, France, India, Indonesia, Thailand
Carmel Shalev - Israel
Curriculum Vitae
Current position: Senior Legislation Officer, Israel Ministry of Justice - areas of responsibility include women's rights, family law, adoption, human rights and constitutional law, health administration and medicine; coordinator of commission of inquiry into the regulation of reproductive medicine and technology.
Academic expertise: feminist legal theory; law of reproduction
Employment
1991- Department of Legislation, Israel Ministry of Justice - see above
1988- Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University - feminist legal theory, women in the law, law of reproduction and parenthood, legislation clinic
1988-1990 Private law practitioner, Tel Aviv - sex discrimination, equal opportunities in employment, family relations, adoption, rights of the mentally ill
1986-1987 Associate Attorney, Tyler Cooper and Alcorn, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Fall 1985 Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - coordinator, feminist legal theory workshop
March 1985 Consultant, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark - legal aspects of reproductive medicine and genetic counselling
Fall 1984 Visiting Lecturer, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - reproduction, society and the law
1980-1982 Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem - jurisprudence, legal process, legal research
1978-1979 Clerk to Deputy Chief Justice Moshe Landau, Israel Supreme Court, Jerusalem
Education
1982-1986 Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - LLM, 1983; JDS, 1989
1975-1982 Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel - LLB, 1979; LLM, 1984
Bar Membership
1987 State of Connecticut, and USA Federal Second Circuit
1980 Israel
Public Activity
1991- Israel Women's Network, member
1989-1990 Association for Civil Rights in Israel, national board, Tel Aviv branch secretariat
1988-1990 Lachen for the Promotion of Women's Sport, legal counsel
Publications and Papers
"Equality, Difference and Sex Discrimination", in The Landau Book (Boursi, forthcoming, 1994) (in Hebrew)
"Freedom of Cohabitation and Alternatives to Marriage", in Women in the Law (eds. Raday, Shalev and Liban, Schocken, forthcoming, 1994) (in Hebrew)
"The Law of Reproduction and the Right to be a Parent", in Women in the Law (eds. Raday, Shalev and Liban, Schoken, forthcoming, 1994) (in Hebrew)
"Israel - The President of the State", in Heads of State - A Comparative Perspective (Constitutional Centenary Foundation, Australia, 1993)
Law, Religion and Women (International Legal Conference on Women in Law, Jerusalem, 1991)
Collective Punishment in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (B'Tselem, Jerusalem, 1990)
Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity: the Mother-Fetus Relationship (Jerusalem, 1990)
The Status of Palestinian Women (West Bank Database Project, Jerusalem, 1990)
Birth Power: The Case for Surrogacy (Yale University Press, 1989) (Italian translation, Nascere per Contratto, Giuffre, 1992)
The Price of Insurgency - Human Rights Under the Intifada (West Bank Database Project, Jerusalem, 1988)
Artificial Reproduction - Report on a Consultation and Research Findings (WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 1986), rapporteur
"A Man's Right to be Equal: The Abortion Issue", 18 Israel L Rev 391 (1984)
"Spousal Consent to Sterilization", 3 Civil Rights (1982) (in Hebrew)
"A Method of Legal Inquiry", in The Philosophy of Morris R. Cohen - A Symposium, 16 Israel L Rev 329 (1982)
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