ELECTION OF NINE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION TO REPLACE THOSE WHOSE TERMS WILL EXPIRE
ON 19 JANUARY 1998, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF
ARTICLE 8 OF
THE CONVENTION
Note by the SecretarynGeneral
1. In pursuance of article 8, paragraph 4, of the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, the Seventeenth Meeting of States Parties to the
Convention will be convened by the SecretarynGeneral at
United Nations Headquarters on 14 January 1998 to elect nine
members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination to replace those whose terms are due to expire on
19 January 1998 (see annex I). The names of the
other nine members who will continue to serve on the Committee
until 19 January 2000 appear in annex II.
2. In accordance with article 8, paragraph 3, of the Convention,
the SecretarynGeneral in a note verbale dated 30 September 1997
invited the States parties to submit their nominations for the
election of nine members of the Committee within two months.
Listed below in alphabetical order are the nominees, with the
States parties which have proposed them indicated in
parenthesis.
Mr. Mahmoud
ABOULnNASR
(Egypt)
Mr. Hamzat
AHMADU
(Nigeria)
Mr. Michael
BANTON
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland)
Mr. Joseph
BELIBI
(Cameroon)
Mr. Andrew
CHIGOVERA
(Zimbabwe)
Mr. Abdelhaq EL
MKINSI
(Morocco)
GE.97n19607 (E)
Mr. Maurice GLELE
AHANHANZO
(Benin)
Mr. Régis de
GOUTTES
(France)
Mr. Carlos LECHUGA
HEVIA (Cuba)
Ms. Caridad
JUNIO
(Philippines)
Ms. Polonca
KONCAR
(Slovenia)
Ms. Gay
McDOUGALL
(United States of America)
Mr. Peter
NOBEL
(Sweden)
Mr. Agha
SHAHI
(Pakistan)
Mr. Oleg
SHAMSHUR
(Ukraine)
Mr. Michael
SHERIFIS
(Cyprus)
Mr. Rüdiger
WOLFRUM
(Germany)
3. Biographical data of the nominees, as furnished by the States
parties concerned, are contained in annex III. Any further
nominations and biographical data which may be received by the
SecretarynGeneral will be brought to the attention of the States
parties in addenda to the present document.
ANNEX I
The nine members of the Committee whose
term expires on 19 January 1998
Mr. Mamoud
ABOULnNASR
(Egypt)
Mr. Hamzat
AHMADU
(Nigeria)
Mr. Michael Parker
BANTON
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland)
Mr. Andrew
CHIGOVERA
(Zimbabwe)
Mr. Régis de
GOUTTES
(France)
Mr. Carlos LECHUGA
HEVIA
(Cuba)
Mr. Agha
SHAHI
(Pakistan)
Mr. Michael E.
SHERIFIS
(Cyprus)
Mr. Rüdiger
WOLFRUM
(Germany)
ANNEX II
List of the other nine members who will continue to
serve on the Committee until 19 January 2000
Mr. Thedoor van
BOVEN
(Netherlands)
Mr. Ion
DIACONU
(Romania)
Mr. Eduardo FERRERO
COSTA
(Peru)
Mr. Ivan
GARVALOV
(Bulgaria)
Mr. Yuri A.
RECHETOV
(Russian Federation)
Mrs. Shanti SADIQ
ALI
(India)
Mr. Luis VALENCIA
RODRIGUEZ
(Ecuador)
Mr. Mario Jorge
YUTZIS
(Argentina)
Mrs. ZOU
Deci
(China)
ANNEX III
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA OF THE NOMINEES
Mahmoud ABOULnNASR (Egypt)
Born in Cairo, Egypt, 23 June 1931
Licencie en droitof the Faculty of Law of Cairo
University, 1952
Postgraduate studies in International Law at the University of
Paris, 1953n1954
Member of the Egyptian Bar Association, 1952
1955n1961
Served in the Egyptian Embassies in France, Italy and Albania
1964n1968
Member of the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations
in New York. Represented Egypt during this period in the
Sixth and Third Committees.
1969n1976
Elected for the first time as a member of the Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination
1968n1970
Head of the Human Rights Section in the National Organization
Department of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. Represented
Egypt in the Committee on Human Rights of the League of Arab
States
1970n1974
Member of the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations
Office at Geneva. During this period attended many meetings
and conferences including the diplomatic conference on the
reaffirmation and development of the international humanitarian law
applicable in armed conflicts
1974n1976
Director of the International Organization Department in the
Egyptian Foreign Ministry. Represented Egypt in many
international and regional meetings and conferences including those
of the NonnAligned, the Organization of African Unity and the
Organization of the Islamic Conference
1976n1983
Seconded to the Government of Oman and served during this period as
its Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New
York
1984n1985
Returned to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and was named Director of
the International Organization Department
1986n1990
Ambassador of Egypt to Spain
1990n1991
Assistant Foreign Minister for Arab Affairs and Permanent
Representative of Egypt to the League of Arab States
1991
Member of the Egyptian delegation to the Middle East Peace
Conference in Madrid
1992nPresent
Representative of the League of Arab States to the
United Nations in New York
Languages:
Arabic, English and French
Decorations:
Order of Merit, First Class (Egypt)
Order of Noman, First Class (Oman)
Order of Isabela Catolica (Spain)
Hamzat AHMADU (Nigeria)
Traditional title: Wali of
Sokoto
Date of
birth: 15
August 1930
Place of birth:
Gwadabawa, Gwadabawa Local Government Area, Sokoto State of
Nigeria
Education:
1947n1949
School of Arabic Studies, Kano (now Abdullahi Bayero University,
Kano)
1949n1950
Administrative Training College (now Institute of Administration,
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria)
AprilnJuly 1952
Man O'War Bay: Youth Leadership Training in the Cameroon
1954n1957
Balham and Tooting College of Commerce, London (now SouthnWestern
College of Technology) (External Student, London University)
1959n1960
Queen's College n Oxford University, England
July
1990
Awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by City University,
Los Angeles
Career:
Date of first appointment - 7 April 1950, with the former
Administrative Service of the Government of Nigeria
1950
Served in the Secretariat, Northern Nigeria, Kaduna
1953-1954
Served in the former Northern House of Assembly
1957-1959
Private Secretary to the Premier of Northern Nigeria, Alhaji Sir
Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto
1960
Transferred to the Federal Government Service in the Prime
Minister's Office (Foreign Affairs Branch)
1960-1961
Posted to Nigerian High Commission, London
1961-1964
Posted to Nigerian Embassy in Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany, as
Second and later First Secretary and Counsellor
1964-1965
Transferred to Headquarters, Ministry of External Affairs, as Head
of Consular and Treaties Department
Career: (continued)
1965-1966
Head Asia Department, Ministry of External Affairs and Officer on
Special Duties on the Conduct and Operation of Muslim Pilgrimage to
Mecca
1966-1975
Seconded to State House (Presidential Palace 1) Administrative
Secretary to the Head of the Federal Military Government's, Supreme
Commander of the Armed Forces
1975-1978
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria to the Soviet Union and German Democratic
Republic
1978-1981
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria to the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Sept. 1981-April 1982 Director, Protocol and
National Assembly Liaison, Ministry of External Affairs, Lagos
April 1982-1984
Appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United Republic of
Cameroon
April 1984
Appointed Director-General (African Affairs), Ministry of External
Affairs
1984-1986
Director-General, African Affairs Directorate, Ministry of External
Affairs
1986-1987
Permanent Secretary and Head of the Nigerian Diplomatic Service,
Ministry of External Affairs
1987n1991
Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the United
States of America, Washington, D.C.
1991n
Retired from diplomatic service
1991n
Chairman, Board of Directors, A.G. Leventis (Nigeria) PLC
1992n1994
Chairman, Board of Governors, Sokoto State Polytechnic Talata,
Mafara, Sokoto State, Nigeria
1993n
Chairman, Board of Directors, Gamji Bank of Nigeria PLC
1994n
Chairman, Board of Governors, Shehu Shagari College of Education,
Sokoto, Sokoto State, Nigeria
Experience:
1969-1975
Member of the Nigerian delegations to the Commonwealth Heads of
Government Conference in London; the Heads of State and Government
Conference of the OAU (Sixth to Twelfth Ordinary Sessions),
the OAU Goodwill Mission of the Heads of State on the Arab-Israeli
dispute which twice visited Israel and Egypt; and the Commonwealth
Heads of Government Conference in Ottawa, Canada
November 1977
Member of the
Nigerian delegation to the Thirty-second session of the
United Nations General Assembly and Nigerian Delegate on the
Second Committee
July 1984
Member of the Nigerian delegation to the Council of Ministers and
Heads of State and Government of the OAU, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
1985
Member of the Nigerian delegation to the Council of Ministers and
Heads of State and Government of the OAU in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
1986 to date
Member of
the Nigerian delegation to the Forty-second session of the
United Nations General Assembly;
Elected Independent Expert Member of the United Nations
Committee against Racial Discrimination; re‑elected in
December 1989.
Organized and participated as a delegate to many State visits
including to the United Kingdom, USSR, China, Ethiopia, etc. and
Conferences of Heads of State and Government within and outside
Nigeria. Travelled widely within Nigeria and many countries
on State visits and conferences and on special assignments.
Took part as an official in many negotiations both at the summit
and at the official levels.
Decorations:
Awarded decorations of the following countries:
Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, Senegal,
Benin, Togo, Niger, Mauritania, Guinea, Cameroon, Chad and the
Gambia.
Foreign languages
spoken:
English, Arabic, German and elementary French
Michael Parker BANTON (United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland)
Born 8 September 1926. Married, four children (one
deceased). Professor of Sociology in the University of
Bristol 1965n1992, and PronVicenChancellor, 1985n1988.
Director of the Social Science Research Council Research Unit on
Ethnic Relations, at Bristol, 1970n1978. Previously Reader in
Social Anthropology in the University of Edinburgh.
President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great
Britain and Ireland 1987n1989. President of the Sociology
Section (1970n1971) and the Anthropology Section (1985n1986) of the
British Association for the Advancement of Science. President
of the Ethnic, Race and Minority Relations Section of the
International Sociological Association, 1990n1994.
Justice of the Peace, Bristol, since 1966. Member of the
Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure, 1978n1981; the Royal
Commission on Civil Disorders in Bermuda, 1978; the Ethnic
Minorities Advisory Committee of the Judicial Studies Board,
1993n1996; the United Kingdom National Commission for UNESCO from
1963n1965 and 1980n1985; and the South Western Regional Hospital
Board from 1966n1970.
Visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1962n1963), Wayne State University, Detroit (1971), University of
Delaware (1976), Australian National University (1981) and Duke
University, North Carolina (1982). In 1972 he was elected a
foreign member of the Vetenskapssocietet of Lund, Sweden.
Author of the following books, The Coloured Quarter (1955),
West African City (1957), White and Coloured (1959), The
Policeman in the Community (1964), Roles (1965), Race Relations
(1967), the Race Concept (with J. Harwood, 1975), The Idea of
Race (1977), Racial and Ethnic Competition (1983), Promoting
Racial Harmony (1985), Investigating Robbery (1985), Racial
Theories (1987), Racial Consciousness (1988), Discrimination
(1994), International Action Against Racial
Discrimination (1996).
Member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination since 1986, having been renelected in 1990
and 1994. The Committee elected him as its Rapporteur for
1990n1996 and its Chairman for 1996n1998.
Joseph BELIBI (Cameroon)
Civil status
Date of birth: 27 November 1943
Nationality:
Cameroonian
Marital status: Married
Education
Baccalaureate (Lycée Leclerc), June 1963;
University of Yaoundé, Faculty of Law and Economic
Sciences;
Degree in private law, June 1967;
Yaoundé National College of Administration and
Magistrature, 1966;
ENAM diploma.
International Institute of Public Administration, Paris,
1967n1968, diploma.
International Development Law Institute, Rome, February 1985,
diploma.
Professional activities
December 1968, Judge of the Bafoussam Court of First
Instance;
August 1969, General Deputy in the Government Procurator's
Office attached to the Dschang Court of Appeal;
August 1971, Assistant in the Garoua Government Procurator's
Office;
October 1972, President of the Mokolo Court of First
Instance;
April 1974, President of the Nkongaamba Court of First
Instance;
July 1977nAugust 1978, Deputy Director for Legal Affairs and
Administration in the Ministry of Justice;
August 1978nSeptember 1982, ProcuratornGeneral, Garoua Court of
Appeal;
September 1982, Deputy Director responsible for legislation,
Ministry of Justice;
September 1986, Advocate General attached to the Government
Procurator's Office of the Supreme Court;
Seminar on the drafting of periodic reports for submission to
various United Nations committees responsible for the
protection of human rights;
August 1988, Counsellor at the Supreme Court;
Since August 1989 to the present, SecretarynGeneral of the
Ministry of Justice;
Member of the International Institute of Law of the
FrenchnSpeaking Countries;
September 1990, Member of the Public Freedoms Commission, having
prepared Cameroon's present liberal legislation;
October 1991, Member of the Yaoundé Tripartite
Conference;
1992 to present, Member of the National Communication
Council;
1993 to present, President of the Board of Governors of
CAMAIR;
Visiting professor at the National College of Administration and
Magistrature since 1984;
Justice, First group, index 1400.
Honorary distinctions
Chevalier of the National Order of Valour;
Officer of the National Order of Valour.
Other activities
1983, Member of the Cameroonian delegation to Addis Ababa during
the negotiation of the treaty establishing the Economic Community
of Central African States;
Chairman of the African Intellectual Property Organization's
thinkntank when it examined its financial crisis;
1992, Member of the Preparatory Committee for the World
Conference on Human Rights, Geneva;
Member of several Cameroonian delegations to the Central African
Customs and Economic Union summit and the Congress of the
International Institute of Law of the FrenchnSpeaking Countries,
participating in work connected with the harmonization of business
law;
Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime
and the Treatment of Offenders at Milan, concentrating on human
rights, 12n27 August 1985;
International Conference at Amnesty International's offices in
New York, November 1985;
Seminar organized by the United Nations Institute for
Training and Research at Dakar, 26 September to 15 October
1986;
Preparation of Cameroon's initial report on the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment, June 1989;
The Criminal Law Reform Society's international conference held
in Washington in January 1990;
The APeace through Law@ international conference, April 1990,
Beijing;
1991: Member of the delegation to the African Seminar on
international human rights standards and the administration of
justice (Cairo, 8 to 12 July 1990);
Preparatory Committee for the World Conference on Human Rights,
Geneva, 30 March to 10 April 1992;
1993n1994: Member of the Cameroonian delegation to the
United Nations Human Rights Committee's New York session, 30
and 31 March 1994;
VicenChairman of the Criminal Law Reform Society in Cameroon,
dealing with human rights;
Chairman of the National Commission for the Harmonization of
Business Law in Africa.
Mr. Joseph BELIBI contributes regularly to the preparation of
periodic reports on human rights for submission to the
United Nations.
Languages spoken
French and English.
Andrew CHIGOVERA (Zimbabwe)
Date of
birth:
7 March 1953
Place of
Birth:
Chirumanzu, Mvuma, Zimbabwe
Marital
status:
Married, with three children
Educational
background: University of
Zambia, 1973n1977, LL.B.
Law Practice Institute of Zambia, 1977n1978 n Postgraduate
Diploma (Bar Examinations)
University of Texas, Dallas, 1985 nPostgraduate Diploma in
International and Comparative Law.
King's College, London 1991n1992 n LL.M. Specializing in
International Business Law.
Other training includes:
Crown Agents Training Centre (Course on Crime Prevention, 1989)
and UNITAR (Course on International Law, 1991).
Professional qualifications: Advocate of the High
Court of Zambia
Legal Practitioner of the High Court of Zimbabwe.
Career: 1989 to
present n Deputy AttorneynGeneral
1987n1989
n Acting AttorneynGeneral
1984n1987
n Director of Public Prosecutions, Office of
the AttorneynGeneral
1982n1984
n Chief Law Officer, Office of the
AttorneynGeneral
1980n1982
n Registrar of Appellate and General Division
of the High Court of Zimbabwe
1979n1980
n Partner in Forrest Price & Co. (Law firm),
Kitwe, Zambia
1977n1979
n Professional Assistant, Ellis & Co.
(Law firm), Kitwe, Zambia
1975n1977
n Legal Assistant, Martin & Co. (Law firm),
Lusaka, Zambia.
Professional
societies: Alumni
International Association
Law Association of Zambia
Law Society of Zimbabwe
Chief National Correspondent for the United Nations Crime
Prevention Unit
Regional Programme Leader for the Institute of International
Arbitration.
Other
activities:
Chairperson for a number of international meetings, including
rapporteur for expert preparatory meeting for the Eighth
United Nations Congress on Prevention of Crime and the
Treatment of Offenders.
Resource person in crime prevention, corruption prevention,
combat against organized international crime, drug trafficking,
mutual assistance in criminal matters, trade supervision, transfer
pricing and international trade at international symposia held in
both Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom.
Resource person for the United National Institute for Training
and Research (UNITAR), seminars and workshops on the legal aspects
of debt management, held in Zimbabwe and Zambia (October 1993).
Member of the Judicial Service Commission from 1987 to 1989,
responsible for recommending and approving appointments to judicial
and top professional legal offices.
Member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination, 1994n1998, Rapporteur of the Committee,
1996n1998.
Member of the United Nations Secretary-General's Investigative
Mission to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1997.
Publications:
Legal Problems of Land Development in Zambia (dissertation
presented to the University of Zambia Law Faculty as partial
fulfilment of the LL.B. degree course)
Legal Assistant in Zimbabwe (paper presented at the
InternAmerican Legal Services Association Conference in San
José, Costa Rica, 1981)
Planning for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in the
Context of Development (paper presented to the United Nations
African Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of
Offenders (UNAFRI) Seminar, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1987)
Crime Prevention and Alternatives to Imprisonment (paper
presented to the United Nations Interregional Preparatory
Meeting for the Eighth Congress, Vienna, Austria, 1988).
Abdelhaq EL MKINSI (Morocco)
Date and place of birth: 13
December 1942, Rabat
Marital
status:
Married, 4 children
University diplomas
Diploma from the Moroccan Institute of Advanced Studies, 1961
(equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts degree).
Degree in Law (Legal Sciences) 1964.
Certificate of Advanced Studies in Civil Law.
Certificate of Advanced Studies in Business Law.
Admission to the Magistracy Examination, 1965.
Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Law.
Professional experience
Ministry of Justice:
From 1 August 1960 to 19 May 1964, sworn legal interpreter
Ministry of Youth and Sports:
From 16 May 1964 to 21 February 1966:
Chief, Division of General Culture.
InspectornGeneral.
SecretarynGeneral of the committees of the National Council of
Youth and Sports
National Railways Office:
From 21 February 1966:
Chief engineer.
Legal adviser.
InspectornGeneral of the Hotel Chain.
Administrator of the following companies:
The DIAFA hotel company.
No. 1 housing estate for young persons (a property
company).
No. 2 housing estate for young persons (a property company).
SOC ICA.
A printing and publishing company at Tangiers.
The ACarré@ Moroccan rapid transport company.
Legal adviser with the SCIF company.
Parliamentary activities
From 8 October 1984 to 8 October 1992:
Deputy for Rabat.
Chairman of the Rabat Prefectural Council.
Chairman of the Parliamentary Justice, Legislation and Civil
Service Commission.
Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Commission for Internal
Affairs.
From 26 October 1992 to 15 June 1995:
Chairman of the Rabat/Youssoufia Municipal Council.
First VicenPresident of the Rabat urban community.
From 17 April 1995 to 30 April 1997 Principal Private Secretary
to the Minister for Human Rights.
At present: from 1 May 1997 Principal Private Secretary to
the Minister of Justice.
Cultural, sports, social and economic activities
1957: Founder and Counsellor
of the Students' Association.
1958: Holiday camp training
course.
1959: Mental training
course.
1962: Founder and counsellor
of the NIBRASS AL MOJTAMA Association.
1965: Founder and
SecretarynGeneral of the Central Committee of the Youth and Society
Association.
1968: Chairman of the
Railwaymen's Association.
1969: Chairman of the
Basketball Section, Moroccan Stadium.
1973: Chairman of USCM
(Bowling Section).
1986: Chairman of the
Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's
Association of Clubs.
1987: Founding member of the
Ribat al Fath Association.
1988: Chairman of the
Management Committee of the Moroccan Stadium Club (and its
subordinate bodies)
Moroccan representative to the Arbitration Commission
(International Transport).
Participation in all local community seminars.
Participation in the preparation of various development
plans.
Participation in the work of CNJA.
Member of the Arab Towns Organization.
Member of the World Federation of United and Twinned Towns.
Member of the Organization of Islamic Capitals and Cities.
Tourism activities
Participation in various tourism congresses abroad.
Participation in various round tables, symposia and seminars in
Morocco.
Author of statements on tourism in Parliament.
Member of the Parliamentary Tourism Commission.
Member of the Parliamentary Finance Commission (participated in
the study and finalization of all investment codes and fiscal
reform (TVA, IS, GR, TU, etc)).
Member of the International Hotel Association.
Maurice GLELE AHANHANZO (Benin)
Born in Benin in 1934, after classical secondary studies he is
Senior Administrator of the National School for Overseas
France.
State Doctor of Laws; Professor of Public Law and Political
Science.
Has taught in the universities of Benin, Paris I and
Dakar. Is the author of several works, including,
Naissance d'un Etat Noir (Birth of a black State), Le
Danxomé: du Pouvoir Adja à la Nation Fon
(Danxomé: from Adja power to Fon nation, Religion,
Culture et Politique en Afrique Noire (Religion, culture and
politics in black Africa), and Introduction à
l'Organisation de l'Unité Africaine et Organisations
Régionales Africaines (Introduction to the Organization of
African Unity and African regional organizations), and published
numerous articles in specialized legal reviews. He was one of
the drafters of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights;
as Director of Research and Dissertation, he has been a member of
numerous juries for dissertations on law, history and anthropology
(Paris I and Dakar).
He is the conauthor of several legal works on Africa.
He has been a UNESCO staff member:
Director, Cultural Studies and Policies Division;
Legal Adviser, Director of the Office of International Standards
and Legal Affairs;
Promoted to the post of Assistant DirectornGeneral of UNESCO,
Legal Adviser, in 1992.
He is currently a member of the Constitutional Court of the
Republic of Benin and President of the Institute for Human Rights
and Promotion of Democracy: Everyday Democracy. Since
1993 he has been Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human
Rights on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination and
xenophobia and related intolerance. In this capacity, he has
submitted several general reports to the Commission on Human Rights
and General Assembly of the United Nations, and reports on the
United States of America (1994), Brazil (1995), Germany (1995),
France (1995), the United Kingdom (1995), Colombia (1996) and
Kuwait (1996). In 1996 his mandate was renewed for three
years.
Régis de GOUTTES (France)
Born on 26 October 1940 at Paleville (81 Tarn), France
Married, four children
STUDIES, DEGREES AND OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
Law degree
Higher degrees in:
Private law;
Criminal science;
Comparative law (International Faculty for the Teaching of
Comparative Law, Strasbourg)
Graduate, Political Science Institute (Toulouse)
National Judicial Training School (CNEJ) (finished top of class
in December 1968)
Certificate of proficiency in Spanish, Toulouse Chamber of
Commerce.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
(a) Judicial activities
1969n1972: Magistrate, Ministry of Justice
1972n1973: Deputy AttorneynGeneral, Nouméa and later
Versailles
1974n1978: Magistrate, Ministry of Justice
1978n1981: Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
(Department of Legal Affairs)
1981n1983: Chief of Bureau (International and European
Criminal Law), Ministry of Justice
1983: Assistant Director,
Office of the Minister of Justice
(Mr. Robert Badinter)
1984n1985: Deputy Director of Criminal Justice, Ministry
of Justice
1985n1989: Assistant Director of Legal Affairs, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs
1990n1992: AdvocatenGeneral, Paris Court of Appeal (Chief,
Department of Human Rights, Prevention and Judicial Protection of
Juveniles, 1992, then delegated to the Court of Cassation)
Since 1993: AdvocatenGeneral, Court of Cassation
(commercial division and,
since 1996, criminal division)
(b) Nonnjudicial legal
activities
Elected member, United Nations Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination (CERD), since 1990
Elected member (1990n1993), VicenChairman (1994), then Chairman
(1995n1996) of the European Steering Committee for Human Rights
(Council of Europe)
Elected member, European Steering Committee on Criminal Problems
(1985n1989)
Elected member, Board of Trustees, United Nations Interregional
Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Rome (1990n1994)
Member, French National Advisory Commission on Human Rights,
since 1990
Member, International FrenchnLanguage Legal Institute (IDEF)
Member, European Penal Research Association
OTHER ACTIVITIES n UNIVERSITY TEACHING
1976n1977: Lecturer on international criminal judicial
cooperation, National School of Administration;
1981n1997: Lecturer, National Judicial Training School
(initial training in Bordeaux and further training in Paris),
on the European Convention on Human Rights, European and
international judicial cooperation, the universal human rights
monitoring bodies (United Nations Committee on the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination);
Lecturer on various human rights subjects at the Paris Bar
Council, the Paris Court of Appeal, the Court of Cassation, the
Universities of Rouen, Orléans, Montpellier and Paris, and the
National Advisory Commission on Human Rights;
Under the auspices of the United Nations Centre for Human Rights
(Geneva) gave several lectures on the international human rights
conventions for African countries (training seminars in Abidjan and
Lomé);
Senior lecturer, University of Paris I, for the DESS in
humanitarian law and human rights (since 1995);
Senior lecturer, Institute for Advanced European Studies,
Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg (DEA), comparative human
rights law (since 1996).
WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS
Various articles and contributions (20 or so) to legal reviews
or studies, notably in the sphere of human rights and European and
international judicial cooperation:
Examples of articles:
1. ALa Convention euopéenne des droits
de l'homme et la justice française en 1992" (The European
Convention on Human Rights and the French courts in 1992),
published in Gazette du Palais, No. 66n67, 6n7 March
1992.
2. ALa Convention euopéenne des droits
de l'homme et le juge national: vers une consolidation de la
mission et du statut du juge?@ (The European Convention on
Human Rights and French judges: towards a consolidation of
the judge's task and status?), Gazette du Palais, No. 1n5,
15 January 1993).
3. AVariations sur l'espace judiciaire
européen@(Variations on the European system of criminal
law) and A@Vers un espace judiciare pénal
panneuropéen?@ (Towards a pannEuropean
system of criminal law?), in Dalloz, 1990, Chron. 245, and Dalloz,
1991, Chron. 154.
4. ALe Comité des Nations Unies pour
l'élimination de la discrimination raciale@ (The United
Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination),
studies in Revue de science criminelle et de droit
pénal comparé, JulynSeptember 1991, Revue
générale de droit international public, No. 1,
1992, and Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'homme,
Bruylant, No. 28, 1 October 1996.
5. ALe juge français et la Convention
européenne des droits de l'homme: avancées et
résistance@ (French judges and the European Convention on
Human Rights: progress and resistance), Revue
trimestrielle des droits de l'homme, No. 24, 1995.
6. ALa préparation des rapports
français devant les organes mondiaux de protection des droits
de l'homme@(The preparation of French reports to the world
human rights protection bodies), Cahiers du CEDIN de
Nanterre, 1990, Records of the symposium of 12n13 October
1989.
7. AVers un droit pénal
européen?@(Towards a European body of criminal law?),
Revue de science criminelle et de droit pénal
comparé, No. 4, 1993.
8. AA propos du Tribunal international pour
les crimes de guerre commis depuis 1991 dans
l'ExnYougoslavie@, (Concerning the International
Tribunal on war crimes committed since 1991 in the former
Yugoslavia), Archives de politique criminelle, PEDON, 1994,
etc.
Examples of contributions to studies
1. Joint study on the European Convention on
Human Rights, published in 1995 (ECONOMICA) under the
direction of Mr. Louis Edmond Pettiti, Mr. Emmanuel Decaux and
Mr. PierrenHenri Imbert (commentary on article 5,
paragraph 2, of the European Convention on Human Rights,
pp. 203 et seq.).
2. Study on French law and the European
Convention on Human Rights from 1974 to 1992, published in
1994 (ENGEL) under the direction of
Professor Frédéric Sudre (pp. 49
et seq.).
3. Liber Amicorum for Mr. Marc
André Eissen (ed. Bruylant, Brussels, 1995, pp. 187
et seq.).
4. AQuelle Europe pour les droits de
l'homme? La Cour de Strasbourg et la réalisation
d'une union plus étroite@ (What Europe for Human
Rights? The Court of Strasbourg and the realization of a
closer union), Records of the CREDHO symposium of 11n12
May 1995, under the direction of
Professor Paul Tavernier, published by Bruylant in 1996,
pp. 217 et seq.
5. ALes nouveaux développements du
procès équitable européen@ (The new developments
in European due process), Records of the Court of Cassation
symposium of 22 March 1996, published with the University of
Strasbourg by Bruylant in 1996.
6. Contribution to the Miscellany for
Professor Georges Levasseur on criminal law and European law
(From a European to a pannEuropean system of criminal law), LITEC,
1992.
7. Records of the symposium of 13 June 1997 on
crimes against humanity, organized by the Court of Cassation and
the French National Advisory Commission on Human Rights (awaiting
publication).
Other relevant information
Decorations:
Officer of the National Order of Merit
Chevalier de l'Ordre national de la Légion d'Honneur
Médaille de l'Administration pénitentiaire
Carlos LECHUGA HEVIA (Cuba)
Born in Havana, on 28 February 1918. Worked as a
journalist from 1937 and entered the diplomatic corps in 1959.
As a diplomat first held the post of Cuban Minister
Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the United Nations,
New York, from February to July 1959.
On 18 July 1959, appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of Cuba to Chile.
On 28 December 1959, appointed Ambassador on Special Mission in
Latin America.
On 2 March 1960, took up post of Permanent Representative of
Cuba to the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS)
and the InternAmerican Economic and Social Council in
Washington. Participated as Adviser to the Cuban delegation
in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth consultative meetings of
Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Latin American
Republics. Headed the Cuban delegation at the Special Meeting
of HighnLevel Representatives to strengthen the InternAmerican
Economic and Social Council.
In February 1962, appointed Director, Department of
International Organizations, in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
On 12 April 1962, appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary to Mexico.
In late 1962, during the Amissile crisis@, transferred to
New York as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Cuba to
the United Nations and later headed the Cuban delegation
to the eighteenth session of the General Assembly.
On 29 July 1964, appointed Chairman of the Cuban National
Cultural Council and, as such, member of the Council of
Ministers.
Participated in official special missions in Asia, Africa, Latin
America and the Middle East.
Held the post of Political Director for Africa, Asia and Latin
America in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In January 1970, appointed Cuban General Commissioner at the
World Fair in Osaka, Japan.
From 22 January 1971 until 1978, served in Geneva as Ambassador
and Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations and
Specialized Agencies based in Switzerland.
Among other functions, led the Cuban delegations to the
Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of
International Humanitarian Law applicable in Armed Conflicts in
1974, 1975 and 1977, the GATT Ministerial Meeting held in Tokyo
from 2 to 14 October 1973, and the Conference of Developing
Countries on Raw Materials held in Dakar from
3 to 8 February 1975.
Member of the Group of Three set up to consider the reports of
States parties on the implementation of the International
Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of
Apartheid.
Represented the Governmental Group of the Governing Body of the
International Labour Organization (ILO) in the Governing Board of
the International Institute for Labour Studies and served as head
of the Cuban delegation to ILO Conferences.
Member of the Cuban delegations to the third, fourth and fifth
United Nations Conferences on Trade and Development
(UNCTAD).
Coordinator of the Group of 77 during the fifth Conference in
Manila, and the seventh Conference in Geneva.
Delegate to the seventh special session and the thirtynfourth
session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Representative of Cuba at several sessions of the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
Elected VicenChairman of the Commission at the 1976 session.
In 1978, appointed Director, Department of International
Organizations, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Selected as a member of the United Nations Group of
Intergovernmental Experts on Institutional Arrangements relating to
Disarmament.
Member of the delegation to the Conference on Disarmament which
attended the destruction of mediumnrange nuclear weapons at
Volgograd, USSR.
Member, in a personal capacity, of the Advisory Board on
Disarmament Studies, which advised the SecretarynGeneral of the
United Nations on two occasions, from 1980 to 1981 and from
1984 to 1989.
Also participated as delegate of Cuba to the 1973 and 1977
International Sugar Conferences and various meetings of the
Movement of NonnAligned Countries, and was Secretary of the
Political Committee of the Sixth NonnAligned Summit Conference held
in Havana and delegate to the NonnAligned Summit in Colombo in
1976. Also participated in the meeting of the Council of the
Latin American Economic System (SELA) in Caracas,
Venezuela.
Delegate to the fourteenth, thirtynfourth, thirtynfifth and
fortieth sessions of the United Nations General Assembly
in New York.
Elected VicenChairman of the First Committee of the
General Assembly in 1985 at the fortieth session; member of
the Trade and Development Board of UNCTAD.
Led a delegation of representatives of the Movement of
NonnAligned Countries to observe the damage caused by a surprise
attack by the Israeli air force on Beirut in August 1981.
In 1982, as Head of the Cuban delegation, presided over a
meeting of coordinating countries of the Movement of NonnAligned
Countries, based in UNESCO, Paris, in preparation for the World
Conference on Cultural Policy.
Served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Cuba
to Portugal from 1981 to 1983.
From 1984 to 1989, again served as Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of Cuba to the United Nations Office and
Specialized Agencies based in Switzerland.
Chaired the Conference on Disarmament in 1986.
In 1986 elected Chairman of the Committee on Radiological
Weapons.
Has been coordinator of the Latin American Group in Geneva on
two occasions.
Served as coordinator of the Group of 21 in the Conference on
Disarmament.
In September 1989 headed the Cuban observer delegation on the
withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia.
In January 1990 elected member of the Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination set up under the International
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial
Discrimination, and renelected in 1994. During this period he
was elected VicenChairman.
Published works: Itinerario de una farsa (Itinerary
of a Farce), Critics' Prize in 1992, and En el Ojo de la
Tormenta (In the Eye of the Storm).
Caridad JUNIO (Philippines)
Born: 28 February 1954
Education
University of the East
1970n1974
Bachelor of Arts (Major in English)
* Grand Lady Chancellor n Mu Alpha Phi Sorority
1972n1973
University of the East
1974n1978
Bachelor of Laws
* Most Noble Lady n Tau Lambda Kappa Sorority
1976n1977/1977n1978
Work experience
State Prosecutor, Department of Justice, since 1987
* Lone DOJ representative,
AHuman Rights nWhat Do We Have in Common? An
ASEANnEuropean Value Discussion@, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung
Educational Foundation, 13n14 October 1997, Mandaluyong
City
* Lone DOJ Delegate
AA Gathering for Human and Ecological Security: a
Conference on Population, Environment and Peace@, 15n17 June 1995,
Manila
* Lone DOJ Delegate
Seminar for Trainers on Military Justice System Human Rights
(Phase IV), Trainers' Course on Human Rights, International
Humanitarian Law and Military Justice System, 27 March n 7 April
1995, JAGOnAFP Fort Bonifacio
* DOJ Delegate
First Human Rights Workshop, International Bar Association,
27n28 June 1994, Pasay City
* DOJ Delegate
ASEAN Study/Workshop on Conspiracy and Investigation of
Illegally Acquired Assets of Drug Traffickers,
9n29 February 1988, Manila
Trial Attorney II, Department of Agrarian Reform, 1984n1987
Associate
Vicente Millora Law Office
St. Francis Cond., Cor., Potsdam Street
Aurora Boulevard, Cubao, Quezon City
Associate
Serafin P. Rivera Law Office
L & L Building, 855 EDSA Quezon City
Faculty member
Faculty of Accountancy & Law
Polytechnic University of the Philippines
1980n1981
Author of numerous published editorials and feature
articles.
Affiliations
A list of membership in numerous organizations and associations
can be consulted in the files of the Office of the
High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Polona KON"AR (Slovenia)
Birthdate: 1 June 1947
Birthplace: Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marital Married
status:
Position: Professor of Labour Law and
International Labour Law
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law
Kongresni trg 12, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Education
1966n1970: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of
Law
1973: University of
Ljubljana, Faculty of Law, Master's Degree
1978: University of
Ljubljana, Faculty of Law, Ph.D.
1969, Faculté
Internationale pour l'Enseignement du Droit Comparé du
1970: Strasbourg n
1er, 2e Cycle de l'Ecole Internationale de Droit
du Travail Comparé, Trieste
1972n1973: Doctorat de Spécialité n 3e
Cycle n Sciences Sociales du Travail, Université Paris I
(Scholarship of the French Government)
Foreign languages
Speak: English, French
Read: German, Italian,
Spanish
Professional experience
1970n1971: Research assistant, Institute of Labour
by the Faculty of Law, Llubljana
1971n1978: Assistant, University of Ljubljana,
Faculty of Law
1979n1984: Assistant professor, University of
Ljubljana, Faculty of Law
1985n1990: Associate professor, University of
Ljubljana, Faculty of Law
1990n: Full professor,
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law
Specialization within the major disciplineALaw@
Labour law, social security, international and European labour
law
Administrative experience and other recent activities
1991n1993: VicenDean, University of Ljubljana,
Faculty of Law
1993n1995: Dean, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of
Law
1990n1993: Council for the Protection of Human
Rights and Freedoms, member elected by the Parliament of Republic
of Slovenia
1982n1994: Governmental Commission for the
Cooperation with the ILO, member
1995n: Governmental Working
Commission for the Examination of the International Law Aspects of
Human Rights
Membership in domestic and international associations
1994n: Slovene Association
for Labour Law and Social Security, president
1993n: Executive Committee
of the International Society for Labour Law and Social Security,
Geneva, member
1990n: International Law
Association, member
Gay J. McDOUGALL (United States of America)
Employment
September 1994 to present
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR n International Human Rights Law Group,
Washington, D.C.
January to June 1994
COMMISSIONER n Independent Electoral Commission of South
Africa.
1980 to 1994
DIRECTOR n Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, D.C.
1984
CONSULTANT n under contract to United Nations Council for
Namibia. Advised Council on the enforceability, in
United States courts, of its Decree No. 1.
1979 through 1980
ASSOCIATE COUNSEL n Office of the Deputy Mayor for Criminal
Justice, New York City.
1977
STAFF ATTORNEY n New York City Board of Corrections, Minimum
Standards Unit.
1975 through 1976
GENERAL COUNSEL n National Conference of Black Lawyers, New York
City.
1972 to 1974
ASSOCIATE n Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons and Gates, New York
City.
1971
LEGAL CLERK n Cravath, Swaine and Moore, New York City.
Professional experience
n Direct and supervise the Law Group
staff of over 100 employees engaged in human rights litigation,
advocacy and training activities in Asia, Africa, Latin America and
eastern Europe.
n Direct the four components of the Law
Group's programme: the Empowerment Project, which seeks to
train, collaborate with and empower grassnroots human rights
advocates in developing countries; the Rule of Law Program, which
provides technical assistance to strengthen legal systems in
developing countries and emerging democracies to enforce human
rights; the International Advocacy Project, which works to
strengthen United States and international mechanisms for
redressing human rights abuses, and seeks to focus international
attention on human rights and development; and the Women's Rights
Advocacy Project, which works to promote women's human rights
through legal and political initiatives in the United Nations and
regional human rights systems.
n Served as the only American among 5
international members of South Africa's 16nmember Independent
Electoral Commission, which organized and administered that
country's first democratic, nonnracial elections in 1994.
n Serves as Expert Member (alternate) of
the United Nations Commission on Human Rights' SubnCommission on
Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.
n Served as Human Rights Adviser to the
United States delegation to the United Nations Fourth World
Conference on Women Global Preparatory Committee.
n Advised and provided analyses of
comparative legal systems to negotiators involved in the
development of a new South African constitution.
n Served on Advisory Panel to the
Constitutional Commission of Eritrea.
n Testified frequently before
Congressional committees and United Nations bodies.
n Organized and directed the defence of
thousands of political prisoners and detainees in South Africa and
Namibia, raising more than $1.2 million annually from
United States foundations, the United Nations (UN) and
European donors to finance the programme of the Southern Africa
Project.
n Organized sixnpart series of
international conferences on constitutional options for a
postnapartheid South Africa. The conferences, held in
South Africa, focused on reorganizing the judiciary; adopting
a bill of rights; developing affirmative action programmes;
designing a nationwide public defender service; comparing
institutional models for enforcing a constitutional guarantee of
gender equality, and evaluating electoral systems.
n Coordinated nationwide campaigns to
lobby the Congress and Executive Branch on matters related to
United States foreign policy in southern Africa.
n Established the Commission on
Independence for Namibia, a
bipartisan group of 31 distinguished Americans that
monitored the UNnsupervised, yearnlong process leading to elections
in Namibia. The Commission succeeded in compelling the
modification of such critical legislation as the registration
and election law, which, as drafted, threatened the fairness of the
election process, analysed proposed provisions of the new
Constitution; consulted with United Nations officials, the
South African administration and civic leaders; published and
distributed worldwide the only weekly reports on the transition
process, and reported frequently to the United Nations
SecretarynGeneral.
n Recruited and coordinated the pronbono
services of attorneys from major corporate firms to handle or join
as amici in human rightsnrelated litigation in the United States
courts.
n Recruited, and facilitated visits to
South Africa of, prestigious members of the American judiciary and
bar to serve as observers at important political trials.
n Lectured extensively on human rights
and southern African issues in the United States at
universities, law schools, national and international conferences
sponsored by United Nations agencies, civic and professional
organizations.
n Featured in guest appearances on
numerous television and radio programmes.
Education
L.L.M., London School of Economics and Political Science;
London, England. Focus: Public International Law
(1978).
J.D., Yale Law School; New Haven, Connecticut (1972).
United States District Court, Southern District of New York
(1977).
Court of Appeals of the State of New York (1974).
Publications
Annual series of briefing papers, newsletters and other
publications analysing legal and political developments in South
Africa and Namibia (1980n1994).
AEffects of the New World Order on the Third World: United
Nations Peacekeeping in Africa@. Proceedings.
EightynSeventh Annual Meeting of the American Society
of International Law (1993).
AThe Release of South Africa's Political Prisoners:
Definitions and Expectations@. Published by
United Nations Centre against Apartheid (April 1990) and
Journal of International and Comparative Law, Temple Law
School.
AAntinApartheid Forces Are Gaining@. OpnEd in The
Philadelphia Inquirer (30 January 1990).
AUnlocking Apartheid@. OpnEd in Dallas Times Herald
(4 January 1990).
AImplementation of the AntinApartheid Act of 1986@ in
Sanctioning Apartheid (1990).
AThe Recurrence of Hostilities in Namibia on the Eve of
Implementation of Security Council resolution 435@.
Proceedings, EightynThird Annual Meeting of the
American Society of International Law (1989).
AProposals for a New United Stated Policy Toward South
Africa@. Virginia Journal of International Law. Vol.
28, No. 4, p. 873 (Summer 1988).
AUnited Nations Mediation of Regional Crises:
Namibia@. Proceedings, Eightieth Annual Meeting of the
American Society of International Law,
p. 145 (1986).
AInternational Law, Human Rights, and Namibian
Independence@. Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 3,
p. 443 (1986).
Affiliations
A comprehensive list of membership on various boards,
associations and other organizations can be consulted in the files
of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights.
Peter NOBEL (Sweden)
Bornin Stockholm on 8 December 1931.
Family: Married; three sons.
Education: Jur.kand. (BL) at Uppsala University
1963. Studies at Trinity College, Cambridge, University of
Göttingen and the Salzburg Seminar.
Juris Doctor h.c., Uppsala University 1985.
Professional activities
n Practising lawyer as partner of the
Law firm Chrysander, Uppsala 1963n1986.
n Notary Public in and for Uppsala
1966n1986.
n Appointed by the Government to be
Sweden's first Ombudsman against Ethnic Discrimination
1986n1991.
n SecretarynGeneral of the Swedish Red
Cross 1991n1994.
n Assigned as an expert to public
commissions like the Government's on arrest and custody in criminal
cases (SOU 1977:50 and 1985:27), on the right to asylum in cases of
rejection at the border (DsA 1985:4), the Parliaments 1988 against
Racism and Xenophobia (SOU 1989:13n14) etc.
n Appointed by the Government as special
investigator and to give guidance to the survivors and families of
the victims after the shipwreck of M/S Estonia, 28 September
1994; report submitted (SOU 1996:189).
n Teaching, research, consultancy and
published books and articles particularly on Human Rights, Minority
Rights and the Law of Asylum.
n Travels and missions in Europe,
Canada, USA, Mexico, Africa, Iran and the Middle East.
Other assignments
n Member of the social welfare committee
of the municipality of Uppsala 1970n1976.
n Member of the Board of the Municipal
Theater of UppsalanGävle 1976n1983.
n Board member of the Swedish Bar
Association (Sveriges Advokatsamfund) 1970n1981.
n Member of the Organizing Committee for
the PannAfrican Refugee Conference in Arusha, Tanzania
1977n1979.
n Board member of the European Human
Rights Foundation, mainly financed by the European Community, since
1980.
n Member of the Council of the
International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo,
1988n1997.
n President of the organizing committee
for the International Congress of Human Rights NGOs in Uppsala,
1991n1995.
n President of the Transnational
Foundation for Peace and Future Research, Lund, 1994n1997.
n Member of the Ethical Committee of the
Press (Pressens Opinionsnämnd) since 1995.
n Recently elected to the Board of
Trustees, International Alert, London.
Agha SHAHI (Pakistan)
Present position: President of the Islamabad
Council of World Affairs and member of the Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination since 1978.
Experience:
1949n1951
Served in the Provincial Government of Sind.
1951
Appointed to the Foreign Service of Pakistan.
1951n1954
Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1955n1958
Minister in the Embassy of Pakistan, Washington D.C.
1958n1961
Deputy Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Pakistan to
the United Nations, New York.
1961
Promoted to the rank of Ambassador.
1961n1964
Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1964n1967
Additional Foreign Secretary, Government of Pakistan.
1967n1972
Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the
United Nations, New York.
1972n1973
Ambassador of Pakistan to the People's Republic of China.
1973n1977
Foreign Secretary (Permanent UndernSecretary), Government of
Pakistan.
January 1978 Adviser for
Foreign Affairs, Government of Pakistan.
to May 1980
May 1980 to Minister
for Foreign Affairs, Government of Pakistan.
February 1982
Mr. Agha Shahi has served as Leader/Member of Pakistan
delegations to many sessions of the United Nations
General Assembly and other international conferences, such as
the Bandung Conference (1955), the NonnNuclearnWeapon States
Conference (1968), the Islamic Summit Conference, the Havana
NonnAligned Summit Conference (1979), etc. He was the
Chairman of the Islamic Foreign Ministers' Conference held in
Islamabad in 1980 and Leader of the Pakistan Delegation to the
World Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna in
June 1993.
He has also served in various capacities on a number of
United Nations organs and bodies, namely as member of the
Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions
(ACABQ) (1956n1962), Representative of Pakistan in the
United Nations Security Council (1968n1969), Chairman of the
General Assembly's First Committee (1969), President of the
UNDP Governing Council (1969), Chairman of the Pakistan delegation
to the United Nations General Assembly (1977n1981),
Chairman of the United Nations SecretarynGeneral's Advisory
Board on Disarmament Studies (1979n1982), Chairman of the Board of
Trustees, United Nations Institute for Training and Research
(UNITAR) (1982).
He is active in public affairs and has participated in many
international seminars since 1978.
His publications include Pakistan's Security and Foreign
Policy (1988) and a number of articles on security, disarmament
and humanitarian issues.
Oleg SHAMSHUR (Ukraine)
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
1978 n Graduated from Kiev State University (International
relations)
1982 n Ph.D. (History), Kiev State University
1991 n Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor), Academy of
Sciences
of
Ukraine
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
1981n1984
Research fellow, Institute of Social and Economic Problems of
Foreign Countries (ISEPFC), Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
1984n1989
Academic secretary (Director of Programmes), ISEPFC
1989n1992 Senior
research fellow, ISEPFC
Januaryn
Senior research fellow, Institute of World Economy and
October 1992 International
Relations (IWEIR), Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
October 1992n Leading research fellow,
IWEIR
June 1993
September 1992n Visiting scholar, University
College, London (Migration
March 1993 Research
Unit)
June 1993n Counsellor,
Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the
October 1996 United Nations
Office and other International Organizations in Geneva
Since
Deputy Chairman, State Committee for Nationalities and
October 1996 Migration of Ukraine,
Chairman of the Board to hear appeals of rejected
asylumnseekers
Member of the Commission on Citizenship with the President of
Ukraine.
Alternate member of the SubnCommission on Prevention of
Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (UN Commission on Human
Rights).
Member of the Working Group of Intergovernmental Experts on
Human Rights of Migrants (UN Commission on Human Rights).
Chairman, Centre for Migration and Social Studies, Institute of
International Relations, Kyiv University.
Member of the European Association for the Advancement of Social
Sciences.
Member of the scientific committee of the Euroconference on
migration and multiculturalism (London School of Economics,
1995).
Author of about 50 scientific publications, including
3 books and 7 chapters in monographs on international
migration, ethnic relations and international affairs.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books and monographs
n Theories of Ethnic Relations n Kyiv,
1987
n Golden Door of Immigration n Kyiv,
1987
n USA: State and Ethnic Relations
n Kyiv, 1989
Chapters in monographs and articles
n Ethnic minorities and immigrants in
the modern world n Kyiv, 1984
n Working class and nationalities
question in the countries of Western Europe and
North America n Kyiv, 1985
n Capitalist development of
reservations' resources and situation of the American Indians n
in: Ecology of American Indians and Eskimos, Moscow, 1988
n Ukraine in the context of new European
migrations n in: International migration review (N.Y.),
summer 1992
n Ukrainian emigration n in:
Government express (Kyiv), July 1992
n A European case study:
influences on migration n Ukraine and former Soviet States n
lecture at Home Office Research and Statistics Department Seminar
(London), 1992 (mimeo)
n Current crisis and migrations in the
former USSR n in: Economic Developments in cooperation
partner countries from a sectoral perspective (NATO Colloquium),
Brussels, 1993
n New European States and their future
development n in: Mass migrations in Europe.
Implications in East and West, Vienna, 1993
n Multilingual education as a factor of
internethnic relations n in: Language Education for
Intercultural Communication, Clevedon, 1993
n Changing migration landscape and
policy responses in Eastern Europe. Paper presented at the
Seminar AEmerging trends and major issues in migration and ethnic
relations in Western and Eastern Europe@, University of Warwick,
November 1993
n Current ethnic and migration issues in
the former USSR n in: Current issues in language and society
(Clevedon), vol. 1, No. 1, 1994
n Security studies in Ukraine:
research topics in progress n in: UNIDIR Newsletter (Geneva),
No. 25, March/April 1994
n Ukrainian military doctrine and issues
of arms control n in: The CIS: a first balance sheet,
Geneva, PSIS, Occasional Papers, No. 1, 1994
n Ukrainian migration in transition
nin: Innovation (Vienna), vol. 7, No. 2, 1994
n Migratory movements and migration
regulation in the FSU States: Evolution and
Perspectives. Paper presented at Euroconference on Migration
and Multiculturalism (London School of Economics,
30 Augustn2 September 1995)
n Former Soviet Union n in:
International migration in Central and Eastern Europe, Geneva,
United Nations, 1997
n Brain drain n the emigration of
scientists from relevant parts of the NIS, scientific report, ICCR,
Vienna, April 1997
n Conference to address the problems of
refugees, displaced persons, other forms of involuntary
displacement and returnees in the Countries of the Commonwealth of
Independent States and relevant neighbouring States n in:
International Migration Review (N.Y.), summer 1997
n Migration management in Ukraine:
legislative and administrative challenges. Paper presented at
the workshop AInternational experience of State migration
administrative structures@ (23n24 June 1997, Kyiv)
Knowledge of foreign languages: English, French,
Russian
Michael E. SHERIFIS (Cyprus)
Ambassador Michael E. Sherifis, born in Famagusta, Cyprus, in
1937, has been a member of the diplomatic service of Cyprus since
its establishment in 1961. He has led his country's
delegations to numerous international conferences on humanitarian
issues, as well as on political, economic and social affairs.
He is currently the Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to
Italy, nonnresident Ambassador to Switzerland and San Marino,
and High Commissioner to Malta.
From July 1989 to July 1993 he was the Ambassador of
the Republic of Cyprus to the United States of America, with
concurrent accreditation (as nonnresident Ambassador) to Canada,
Jamaica, Bahamas, Brazil and Ecuador.
From April 1985 until July 1989 he was the Ambassador
of the Republic of Cyprus to the USSR, with concurrent
accreditation to Finland, the German Democratic Republic,
Czechoslovakia and the Polish People's Republic.
From January 1983 to April 1985 he was Ambassador of
the Republic of Cyprus to Yugoslavia and nonnresident Ambassador to
Algeria.
From December 1979 until January 1983 he was
Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the
United Nations, with concurrent accreditation as Ambassador to
Suriname and High Commissioner to Grenada.
From December 1975 until December 1979 he was Director
of Human Rights and Political Affairs at the Foreign Ministry in
Cyprus.
From January 1972 until December 1975 he was the
Permanent Representative of Cyprus to the United Nations
Office at Geneva and to the Specialized Agencies in
Switzerland.
Among his other assignments have been: Deputy Permanent
Representative to the Council of Europe; member of the Cyprus
Mission to the United Nations (from 1964 to 1970); Counsellor
with the Embassies of Cyprus in Paris, Cairo and Washington;
ConsulnGeneral in Alexandria and Consul in Greece.
He has university degrees in law, as well as in political and
economic sciences.
He speaks Greek, French, English and Italian
He is currently an elected member of the Committee on the
Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) which he
served twice as VicenChairman. He is actively involved in the
work of the Committee and he has repeatedly chaired a number of its
working groups.
Specifically, with reference to humanitarian issues,
Ambassador Sherifis has held, among others, the following
assignments:
(a) Leader of the delegation of Cyprus to the World
Conference against Apartheid, held in Lagos in 1977;
(b) Deputy leader of the delegation of Cyprus to the
Conference on Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts held
in Geneva from 1974 to 1977, which resulted in the adoption of two
Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions;
(c) Leader or deputy leader of the delegation of
Cyprus to several sessions of the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights;
(d) Representative of Cyprus to the Third
(Humanitarian, Social and Cultural) Committee of the General
Assembly in 1968, 1969, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979;
(e) He was a member of the Commonwealth
Intergovernmental Group on the establishment of a new Global
Humanitarian Order in 1994n1995, the report of which was adopted by
the Commonwealth Summit meeting in New Zealand in
September 1995;
(f) He is currently the Chairman of the Commonwealth
Intergovernmental Group on Refugees and Displaced Persons, the
report of which will be submitted to the next Commonwealth
Summit.
He participated in numerous seminars and lectured extensively in
American universities, thinkntanks and Councils of Foreign Affairs
on issues relating to Human Rights and International
Relations.
Rüdiger WOLFRUM (Germany)
Born
Berlin, 13 December 1941
1964n1969
Study of Law at the Universities of Bonn and Tübingen
18 January 1969
First State Examination
1969n1973
Junior barrister
29 June
1973
Graduation, Dr. iur
14 September 1973 Second
State Examination
From
1973
Assistant professorship, Institute of International Law, University
of Bonn
1 August
1977n
Research fellow at the Center for Oceans Law and
31 July
1978
Policy of the University of Virginia; scholarship from the German
Research Foundation
July/August 1980
Participation at the Third United Nations Law
March/April 1981 of
the Sea Conference (alternate)
March/April 1982
Representative of the German delegation and adviser to the Ministry
of Economics
28 November 1980
Habilitation, venia legendi for national public and
international public law
6 May
1982n
Professor, Chair of national public and international
30 November 1982
public law, University of Mainz, Faculty of Law and Economics
2 December 1982n
Professor, Chair of national public and international
30 April
1993
public law, University of Kiel, Law Faculty, Director of the
Institute of International Law
June
1983n
Participation in the 4th Special Antarctic Treaty
May
1988
Consultative Meeting concerning Antarctic mineral resource
activities, member of the German delegation and Chairman of the
Legal Working Group (beginning in 1985)
August/
Participation at the Preparatory Commission for the
September
1983
International SeanBed Authority and for the International Tribunal
for the Law of the Sea (Delegation of the Federal Republic of
Germany)
29 April
1986n Judge
at the Court of Appeal for Administrative
30 April
1993
Matters for the States of Niedersachsen and SchleswignHolstein;
since 1991 judge at the Court of Appeals for Administrative Matters
of the Land SchleswignHolstein
August/
Visiting professor at the University of Minnesota,
September
1987
Minneapolis, Law School
January
1990
Election as member of the United Nations Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination; renelected in 1994
1 June
1990n
Vicenrector of the ChristiannAlbrechtsnUniversitat at
30 April
1993
Kiel
August/
Visiting professor at the University of Minnesota,
September 1990
Minneapolis, Law School
1 October 1990n
Faculty adviser to the graduate programme in
30 September 1996 Business
Administration and Innovation, Kiel
Since 1 January 1992 Faculty adviser to the
graduate programme in
National and International Environmental Law, Kiel
Since 30 June 1992 Member of the
Senate of the German Research Foundation; renelected in 1995
Since 1 May 1993
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and
International Law, Heidelberg
September/
Visiting professor at the University of Minnesota,
October
1993
Minneapolis, Law School
Since 1 January 1994 Executive head of the
United Nations Association for Germany
Since 1 March 1994 Member of the
Council of the German ILA (International Law Association)
Section
Since 1 September 1994 Member of the Executive Board of
the Law of the Sea Institute at the University of Hawaii
Since 15 November 1995 Member of the Executive Board of
the AStiftung für marine Geowissennschaften@ (Foundation for
Marine Geosciences) (GEOMAR)
Since 26 June 1996 VicenPresident
of the German Research Foundation
Since 1 August 1996 Judge at the
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Since 5 October 1996 VicenPresident of the
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
Since 20 March 1997 Member of the
Council of the ADeutsche Gesellschaft für
Völkerrecht@(German Society for International Law)
Author of a large number of books and articles published in
German and English, a list of which is available for consultation
in the files of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights.
