MEETING OF THE STATES PARTIES
Eighteenth Meeting
New York, 18 January 2000
ELECTION OF NINE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE
ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION TO REPLACE
THOSE WHOSE TERMS WILL EXPIRE ON 19 JANUARY 2000,
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 8
OF THE CONVENTION
Note by the Secretary-General
1. In pursuance of article 8, paragraph 4, of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, the Eighteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention will be convened by the Secretary-General at United Nations Headquarters on 18 January 2000 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 2000 (see annex I). The names of the other nine members who will continue to serve on the Committee until 19 January 2002 appear in annex II.
2. In accordance with article 8, paragraph 3, of the Convention, the Secretary-General, in a note verbale dated 15 September 1999, 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. Levan ALEXIDSE (Georgia)
Mr. Marc BOSSUYT (Belgium)
Mr. Ion DIACONU (Romania)
Mr. Hassan ABDALLA EL HUSSEIN (Sudan)
Mr. François Lonsény FALL (Guinea)
Ms.Patricia Nozipho JANUARY-BARDILL (South Africa)
Mr Ashot MELIK-SHAHNAZARIAN (Armenia)
Mr. Raghavan Vasudevan PILLAI (India)
Mr. Yuri RESHETOV (Russian Federation)
Mr. Manuel de Jesús SALAZAR TETZAGÜIC (Guatemala)
Mr. Luis VALENCIA RODRIGUEZ (Ecuador)
Mr. Mario Jorge YUTZIS (Argentina)
Ms. ZOU Deci (China)
3. Biographical data of the nominees, as furnished by the States parties concerned, are contained in annex III.
ANNEX I
List of the nine members of the Committee whose
terms of office expire on 19 January 2000
Mr. Theodoor van BOVEN (Netherlands)
Mr. Ion DIACONU (Romania)
Mr. Eduardo FERRERRO COSTA (Peru)
Mr. Ivan GARVALOV (Bulgaria)
Mr. Yuri A. RESHETOV (Russian Federation)
Ms. Shanti SADIQ ALI (India)
Mr. Luis VALENCIA RODRIGUEZ (Ecuador)
Mr. Mario Jorge YUTZIS (Argentina)
Ms. ZOU Deci (China)
ANNEX II
List of the nine members of the Committee whose
terms of office expire on 19 January 2002
Mr. Mahmoud ABOUL-NASR (Egypt)
Mr. Michael Parker BANTON (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
Mr. Régis DE GOUTTES (France)
Mr. Carlos LECHUGA HEVIA (Cuba)
Ms. Gay McDOUGALL (United States of America)
Mr. Peter NOBEL (Sweden)
Mr. Agha SHAHI (Pakistan)
Mr. Michael E. SHERIFIS (Cyprus)
Mr. Rüdiger WOLFRUM* (Germany)
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* On 9 September 1999, Mr. Wolfrum presented his resignation. At the time the present document was prepared, Germany had not yet appointed another expert from among its nationals to serve for the remainder of Mr. Wolfrum's term, in accordance with rule 13 of the Committee's rules of procedure.
ANNEX III
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA OF THE NOMINEES
Levan ALEXIDZE (Georgia)
Date and place of birth: | 5 August 1926, Tbilisi, Georgia |
Working languages: | Russian, English, French |
Current position/function: | Head, Chair of International Law
Tbilisi State University
Chief Adviser to President of Georgia |
Main professional activities: | Professor of International Law at Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Law 1950-1970, 1977-present; Vice-Rector of Tbilisi State University 1985-1993; Member of the Parliament of Georgia 1991-1992; Chief, Unit on International Law and Human Rights Issues, State Committee for drafting a new Constitution of Georgia; Chief, Commission on Investigation of the Policy of Ethnic Cleansing/Genocide in Abkhazia, Georgia |
Educational background: | Graduated from Faculty of Law, Tbilisi State University - 1946
Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Professor Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences |
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned: | Senior Human Rights Officer, Division of Human Rights, United Nations Secretariat 1970-1977
Secretary, United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, 1970-1975
Member, European Commission against Racism and Intolerance since 1999 |
List of most recent publications in the field: | Manual of International Law containing a large chapter on international human rights including activities of the United Nations in combating racism - 1994, 1997, 1998. Tibilisi
Facts revealing the policy of ethnic cleansing in Abkhazia, Georgia, 1999. New York, Moscow |
Academic background:
Doctor of Law, Ghent State University (1968)
Certificate of International Relations, Bologna Center of the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University (1969)
Scholarship of the Swiss Confederation (1969-1970)
Research Fellow of the Belgian "Fonds National de Recherche Scientifique" (1970-1973)
Diplome of International and Comparative Law of Human Rights of the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg (1972)
Certificat d'Etudes supérieures, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (1973)
Docteur en sciences politiques of Geneva University (Graduate Institute of International Studies) (thesis on "L'interdiction de la discrimination dans le droit international des droits de l'homme", Brussels, Bruylant, 1976, 262 pp.)
Professional experience:
A. In the framework of the United Nations human rights system
Human Rights Officer at the United Nations Division of Human Rights at Geneva (1975-1977)
Member (1981-1985; 1992-1999), Rapporteur (1992; 1997) and Vice-Chairman (1983; 1999) of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (since 1999: on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights)
Member (1982-1984) and Chairman-Rapporteur (1985) of the Sub-Commission Working Group on Communications
Member (1996-1997) of the Working Group of the Sub-Commission on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
Special Rapporteur of the Sub-Commission for studies on (a) a second optional protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty (1985-1988) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989; and (b) the concept of affirmative action (1999-..)
Representative of Belgium to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1986-1991)
Vice-Chairman (1986) and Chairman (1989) of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Member (1987) and Chairman-Rapporteur (1988) of the Commission of the Working Group on Human Rights Situations
B. Belgian and European institutions
Special Adviser to the EEC Commissioner for International Relations (1985-1986)
Belgian Commissioner-General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (1987-1997)
Judge at the Court of Arbitration (the Belgian Constitutional Court empowered to annul legislative acts contrary to the principle of non-discrimination) (1997-..)
C. Academic world
Professor of International Law and International Organizations at Antwerp University (1977-..) and at the School of Military Administrators in Brussels (1984-1993)
Visiting Professor at the summer session of Santa Clara University Law School (California), in Strasbourg (1979 and 1981-1983) and the Geneva (1984 and 1986-1987); at the Law Faculty of Burundi University at Bujumbura (1980-1983 and 1985) and at the Law Faculty of the National University of Rwanda in Butare (1981 and March and December 1984)
Coordinator of a Belgian project of assistance to the Law Faculty of Burundi University (1980-1987; 2000-..)
Vice-Chairman of the Flemish Inter-University Centre for Human Rights (1992-..)
D. Miscellaneous
Member (1973-..) and Vice-Chairman (1990-..) of the Executive Council of the International Institute of Human Rights at Strasbourg
Secretary-General of the Belgian Society of International Law (1978-1990)
Chairman of the International Peace Information Service (1981-..)
Deputy Director of the Revue belge de droit international (1990-..)
Vice-Chairman of the (Flemish) Inter-University Centre for Human Rights (1992-..)
Member of the Scientific Council of the International Institute of International Relations (1998-..)
Vice-President of the Flemish United Nations Association (1982-1988)
Human rights missions to Suriname (1983) on behalf of the International Commission of Jurists, to Mauritania (1984) on behalf of the United Nations Sub-Commission and to Slovakia and Hungary on behalf of the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) (1993)
Official visits (1990) to Amman, to Islamabad and to refugee camps in Peshawar
Author of nearly 100 scientific articles and of a "Guide to the travaux préparatoires of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights". Dordrecht, Nijhoff, 1987, 888 pp.
Born: 23 October 1938
Studies: Faculty of Law, University of Burcharest, Romania, 1960
Ph.D. in International Law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, 1971
Professional activities:
1960-1965 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legal Department
1965-1968 University of Geneva, Ph.D. studies
1968-1979 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Legal Department, Department for Security and Cooperation in Europe
1979-1980 Counsellor at the Embassy of Romania in Brussels
1981-1986 Counsellor and Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Romania to the United Nations, New York
1986-1990 Deputy Director of the International Organizations and Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1990-1993 Director and Director General of the Legal and Consular Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1993-1997 Ambassador of Romania to Denmark, Copenhagen
1994-1997 Ambassador to Iceland (non-resident)
1997 Ambassador of Romania to the Russian Federation
1998-1991 Member of the United Nations Sub-Commission for the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities
1992-1999 Member of the Committee against Racial Discrimination
Scientific activities:
- Imperative Norms of International Law (Jus Cogens), 1971 (French), 1977 (Romanian)
- Public International Law (Romanian), 1993, second edition, 1995
- Human Rights (Romanian), 1993
- Minorities: status, prospects (Romanian), 1996
- Minorities: identity, equality (Romanian), 1998
- Reservation to the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1998 (study for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, 2001)
- Definition of Racial Discrimination, 1999 (study for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, 2001)
- Minorities - towards the XXI Century, Romanian (to be published soon)
- Studies and articles on different issues of international law in Romanian and foreign publication and books
- Professor of International Law, National School of Public Administration and private universities, Bucharest, 1990-1993
Hassan Abdalla EL HUSSEIN (Sudan)
Date of birth: 1 January 1944
Place of birth: Dontai (Sudan)
Working languages: Arabic and English
Current position/function: Advocate and Commissioner for Oaths in Sudan practising all professional and other main activities mentioned below in addition to the daily activities of the Advisory Council for Human Rights in the Sudan
Main professional activities:
- Family law (Islamic, Christian and traditional)
- Business law - criminal law especially in cases related to human rights and political activities as being established by international declarations and treaties according to the international norms
- Cases related to racial and tribal disputes which prevail in some areas of the Sudan
- NGO laws and regulations
- 25 years' practice in these fields
Education background:
- Native traditional studies (known as Kalwa)
- Elementary regular school
- Secondary high school
- University of Khartoum, Faculty of Law (LLB)
- Short courses, workshops and seminars on family law, intellectual property, human rights and local administration
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned:
- Member of the executive of the Sudanese Human Rights Organization
- Deputy Secretary-General of the Sudanese Jurists Association
- Member of the Permanent Council of Arab Jurists Union
- Member of the Steering Committee of African Lawyers Group of the International Bar Association
- Member of the Human Rights Committee, International Bar Association, London
- Member of the Sudanese Prisoners Service Organization
- Member of ASHAD (Sudan), Canadian NGO
- Worked as a volunteer in the World University Service (WUS)
- Represented the Sudanese students at the Coordinating Secretariat of National Unions of Students (COSEC) in Leiden (Holland) and the International Union of Students in Prague
- Member of the Advisory Council for Human Rights in the Sudan
List of most recent publications in the field:
- A paper on "Human Rights in the Sudan under the New Laws and WAR" presented for the Human Rights Committee meeting in Melbourne, Australia, in 1995
- A paper on family law and rights for women in the Sudan, presented for the Family Law Committee meeting in New Delhi in 1997
- A paper on "The Effects of International Sanctions on Human Rights" presented at the Human Rights Institute Seminar in Berlin in 1996
- Research on "The Evaluation of Human Rights Law within International Law" (in Arabic) presented at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
François Lonsény FALL (Guinea)
Date of birth: 21 April 1949
Place of birth: Dabola (Guinea)
Languages spoken: French, English
Current position/function: Ambassador - Director of Legal and Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Professional activities:
1995-1996: Deputy Director, Legal and Consular Affairs
1993-1994: Member of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in
1992-1993: Head of Consular Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1990-1993: First Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Guinea to the United Nations
1989-1990: First Counsellor at the Embassy of Guinea in France
1985-1989: Counsellor at the Embassy of Guinea in Nigeria
1982-1985: Counsellor at the Embassy of Guinea in Egypt
1980-1982: Chief, Asia-Middle East Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1977-1979: Chief, Cooperation Division, Ministry of Planning and Cooperation
1976-1979: Lecturer, public law course at the University of Conakry.
Educational background:
Participation in a large number of international conferences:
- Member of the Guinean delegation to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-ninth and fifty-first sessions of the United Nations General Assembly
- Member of the Guinean delegation to several sessions of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) (1980, 1981, 1982 and 1996)
- Member of the Guinean delegation to several sessions of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) (1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989)
- Head of the Guinean delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, Kingston, 1993 session
- Member of the Commission on Human Rights at Geneva (1996, 1997, 1998)
- Head of the Guinean delegation to the Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of the Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects, Rome, June 1995
- Head of the Guinean delegation to the Oslo Diplomatic Conference for the Adoption of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and their Destruction
- Member of the Guinean delegation to the Conference for the Signature of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and their Destruction, Ottawa, December 1997
- Head of the Guinean delegation to the First Meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and their Destruction, Maputo, 3-7 May 1999
- Head of the Guinean delegation to the United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, Rome, June-July 1998
- Head of the Guinean delegation to the first session of the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court, New York
- Head of the Guinean delegation to the second session of the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court, New York, 26 July-13 August 1999
- Member of the Guinean delegation to the Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Geneva, October 1998-October 1999
- Head of the Guinean delegation to the fifty-fifth session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Geneva, August 1999
Other activities:
- Member of the National Bureau for Assistance to Refugees
- Member of the Supreme Electoral Council for the Presidential Elections in Guinea, October-December 1998
Patricia Nozipho JANUARY-BARDILL (South Africa)
Date of birth: 21 August 1950
Place of birth: Kimberley (South Africa)
Working languages: English, Setswana, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Zulu, Xhosa
Current position/function: April 1997 to date - Director and founding member of MBM Change Agents, a consultancy which aims to assist organizations in the private, public and non-governmental sectors to manage change and transformation processes in modern South Africa. MBM has a strong commitment to improve gender and race relations in the workplace
Main professional activities:
April 1996-March 1997 Parliament of South Africa, Chief Director and Head of the Transformation and Democratization Office
April 1993-March 1996 World University Service, South Africa, Director
June 1990-March 1993 Bardill and Associates (UK), Consultancy and Training Services, Director
September 1988-May 1990 London Lighthouse, Head of Community Services Department at a centre for people living with HIV and AIDS
July 1986-July 1988 London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London Race Equality Training Officer
July 1985-June 1986 Inner London Education Authority, London, Senior Lecturer at Southwark Institute of Adult Education in the Industrial Language Training Unit
January 1979-June 1982 National University of Lesotho, Research
January 1974-December 1979 Christ the King High School, Roma, Lesotho, English teacher
Board Membership and Advisory Committee:
Education institutions:
- Council of the University of Cape Town, member of Sub-Committees of Strategic Planning, Transformation, Selection, and Baxter Theatre Centre
The private sector:
- Independent newspaper, Cape Town
- First Rand - Insurance
- Siphumelele Investments (as one of 12 Directors)
Non-governmental sector:
- Gender Advocacy Project
- Gender Education and Training Network
- Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), Council Member
- ABANTU for Development (UK)
- COMMISSIONER - Black Economic Empowerment
Government sector:
- Presidential Review Commission - Working Group on Human Resources Development
- National Development Agency, Advisory Committee Independent Development Trust, Restructuring Advisory Committee
Educational background:
1969-1973 BA in English and Philosophy (upper Second) plus a certificate in Education - University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland, Roma, Lesotho
1983-1984 MA in Applied Linguistics, University of Essex, UK
1995 Diploma in Human Resources Management, Damelin Management School, Cape Town
List of most recent publications in the field:
- What the South African Parliament has done to date to improve the quality of life and status of women in South Africa: report to Parliament co-authored with Pethu Serote et al., January 1996
- What are the parameters of human resources development in the local sphere of government. Foundation for Contemporary Research, summer school, Cape Town, 1997
- Report on the Human Resources Process Study: Presidential Review Commission. Co-authored with Sam Mphuthi et al.
- Human Development Report on HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Vivian Taylor (editor), UNDP, 1998
- Race, Class and Gender in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Conference at Simmons Graduate School of Management - Centre for Gender in Organizations (US), 1999
Ashot MELIK-SHAHNAZARIAN (Armenia)
Date of birth: 2 October 1931
Place of birth: Georgia
Working languages: Russian, French, Spanish, English
Current position/function: Ambassador at Large (responsible for human rights and related issues), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Armenia
Main professional activities:
1998 Ambassador at Large
1995-1998 Head of the Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1994-1995 Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Armenia to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva
1992-1994 Special Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
1989-1992 Chargé d'affaires, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Embassy of the USSR in Mali
1987-1989 First Counsellor of the Department of Analysis and Planning of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR
Education background:
1950-1956 State Institute of International Relations, Moscow, Diploma,1969-1971 Supreme Diplomatic School, Moscow, Diploma, International Relations, Administration
1981-1982 Diplomatic Academy, Moscow, Certificate, Training Courses for High-Ranking Diplomats, Administration
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned:
1997-1998 Steering group meetings of the CIS Regional Conference (head of the national delegation)
1997 Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (report)
1997 Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (report)
1994-1995 Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Geneva (head of the national delegation)
1995-1996 Commission on Human Rights, Geneva (head of the national delegation)
List of most recent publications in the field:
Various articles in press:
"When will it be prohibited to violate human rights", Golos Armenivi.
"Genocide: the fundamental right of man - the right to life", Respublica Armenia.
"The recognition of genocide is inevitable", Novoe Vremia.
Raghavan Vasudevan PILLAI (India)
Date and place of birth: 30 June 1938, Kerala (India)
Working languages: English, Malaylam, Hindi and Assamese
Current position/function: Senior Consultant - Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, an association of human rights institutions set up in a constitutional or legislative context and in conformity with the "Paris Principles". Work as senior consultant involves, inter alia:
Interaction with Governments in the Asian-Pacific region which are in the process of setting up human rights institutions;
Facilitating exchange of information and experience between members of the Forum to enable capacity-building among them
Member, Executive Committee, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), an independent international non-governmental organization
Main professional activities: Has 36 years of experience in Public Administration in India. Dealt with a variety of issues in the context of socio-economic marginalization of weaker communities
Served as Secretary-General of the National Human Rights Commission of India from 1993 to 1998. Being the first Secretary-General, he was responsible for building up the Secretariat of the Commission
Represented the Commission at a number of international conferences/workshops/seminars on human rights-related issues
Assisted the Commission in the discharge of its responsibilities as current Chair of the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions, a responsibility requiring extensive international contact
Currently Senior Consultant, Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions and Member, Executive Committee, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI)
Educational background: Master of Science from University of Kerala
Post-Graduate diploma in Urban Studies, University College, London
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned:
During his career in public service, he dealt with a variety of issues in the context of prevailing social stratification and socio-economic marginalization of communities; and has been actively involved in the implementation of policies and programmes directed towards their advancement and ensuring their rightful place in the society
List of most recent publications in the field:
Wrote extensively articles on issues related to various aspects of human rights published in various journals and books; recently published articles include:
Developmental issues in human rights: case of socially disadvantaged communities in India;
Child labour in India;
Abolition of manual scavenging, a demeaning form of manual labour;
Role of HRC in human rights education;
Human Rights Commission vis-à-vis civil society;
Report on rehabilitation of people affected by mega-projects in India - a case of oustees of Bargi Dam across the Narmada river
Yuri RESHETOV (Russian Federation)
Date of birth: 1935
Place of birth: Gorky
Languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic
Education:
1953-1959 Moscow State Institute of International Relations
1969-1971 High Diplomatic School of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR
Professional background:
1959-1975 Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the USSR; Treaty and Law Department and Department of Scandinavian Countries; member of the USSR delegation to sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights; participation in the preparation of several universal instruments, including the Helsinki Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE); stationed at embassies of the USSR in Iceland and Denmark
1975-1980 Chief of Section on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities at the Human Rights Division, United Nations Office at Geneva; Secretary of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities
1980-1986 Senior researcher at the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Science
1986-1992 Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the USSR; Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
1989-1992 Director of the Department of International Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
1990 Head of the USSR delegations to the Copenhagen CSCE Human Dimension meeting and the forty-seventh session of the Commission on Human Rights; member of the delegation to the session of the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council
1992-1998 Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Iceland
1988-present Member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
1998-present Professor of International Law at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations
1996 Preparation and presentation of a background paper on Global assessment of the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination to the United Nations seminar on the same subject in Geneva
1997 Participation in the capacity of CERD expert in the United Nations seminar on the implementation of human rights treaties in Budapest
1998 Participation in the Seminar on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Bulgaria
1998 Expert visit to Uzbekistan in the framework of the UNDP project on democratization and human rights
1999 Participation in the conference "National minorities in the Caucasus on the eve of the 21st century" in Tbilisi
1999 Preparation and presentation of a draft international convention on the right of peoples to self-determination at an international conference in Moscow
Major publications:
1972. Dissertation on "Family Relations in Sweden" (PhD., Sociology)
1984. Dissertation on "International Crimes" (PhD., International and Criminal Law)
International Responsibility for Human Rights Violations (Moscow, 1979, 100 pp.)
Prevention of International Crimes against Peace and Security (Moscow, 1983, 224 pp.)
Chapters in Course of International Law (Moscow, second edition)
Author of more than 150 publications on different issues of international law (human rights, prevention of racial discrimination, interracial relations, minority rights, citizenship, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international responsibility, terrorism, the United Nations, CSCE, and Soviet and Russian legislation)
Lectures:
United States of America, United Kingdom, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Israel, Iceland, etc.
Manuel de Jesús SALAZAR TETZAGÜIC (Guatemala)
Place of birth and age: Tecpán, Guatemala; 50 years of age
Educational background:
Primary schoolteacher, graduated from the Indigenous Institute, Santiago, in 1967
University courses in Administration and Supervision of Bilingual Educational Programmes, graduated from Rafael Landivar University in 1985
Graduate in philosophy and literature, Rafael Landivar University, 1978
Master's Degree in Educational Administration, graduated from the University of New Mexico, United States of America, in 1987
Professional activities:
Professor of Philosophy and Literature at the High School Teacher
Training School of the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, Professor of Bilingual Education, Maya Thought and Educational Policy at the Universities of Rafael Landivar and Mariano Gálvez
Chief, Curriculum Development Section of the Bilingual National Education Programme from 1984 to 1987
Regional Director, Ministry of Education, from 1987 to 1991
Director-General for Scholastic Education, Ministry of Education, 1991 to 1993
Deputy Minister of Education, 1993 to 1996
Dean of the Humanities Faculty, Rafael Landivar University, 1996 and 1998
Current position/function:
Member of the Mission on Compliance with the Peace Agreements since 1997
UNESCO consultant on the education of the indigenous peoples of Central America
Assignments:
Consultant to the Peace Commission during the negotiation of the Agreement on Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples, signed in Mexico in March 1995
President, Executive Board of the Guatemalan Fund for Indigenous Development (FODIGUA) in 1994 and 1995
Other activities: Research into Maya philosophy and culture
Luis Valencia RODRIGUEZ (Ecuador)
Date and place of birth: 5 March 1926, Quito, Ecuador
Working languages: Spanish, English and French
Current position/function:
Member of the Ecuadorean Foreign Service. Ambassador (retired)
Lecturer at various universities and institutions on topics of international law or human rights
Main professional activities:
He entered the Foreign Service on 4 September 1944. Various posts at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, among them:
Under-Secretary-General (1965), Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 December 1965-31 March 1966 and 4 November 1981-9 August 1984), Counsellor, Ecuadorean Embassy in Argentina (1957-1959), Minister Counsellor of the Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the United Nations (1959-1964), Ambassador of Ecuador to Bolivia (1969-1971), Brazil (1971-1974), Peru (1974-1978), Venezuela (1978-1979), Argentina (1989-1991), and Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations (1994-1999).
Member of the Ecuadorean delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of Treaties (1969), Chairman of the Ecuadorean delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (1974-1981), Chairman of the First Committee, forty-ninth session of the General Assembly.
Educational background:
Masters, Public and Social Sciences, Central University, Quito
Lawyer and Doctor of Jurisprudence, Central University, Quito, 1951
Government Legal Advisers Course, London, 1968-1969
Other activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned:
Professor, School of International Sciences, Central University, Quito, 1964-1969; 1984-1986; 1992-1994. Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, Central University, Quito, 1992-1994.
Member of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 1970-1986; 1992-2000. Chairman of the Committee 1972-1974; 1984-1986; 1992-1994.
Independent expert of the Commission on Human Rights to present a report on the right of everyone to own property alone as well as in association with others (E/CN.4/1994/19).
Instructor, courses to train in the preparation of reports to CERD (Costa Rica, Mar del Plata, Quito and San Salvador). Participation in seminars on the work of CERD and the promotion of human rights.
List of most recent publications in the field:£
"Fundamentos y propósitos de las Naciones Unidas" (1970).
"Principios de las Naciones Unidas" (1972). "Protección de los
Derechos Humanos" (1972). Prize in international contest, Center for the World Peace through Law.
"Human Rights of Migrant Workers" (1975). "Fulfilment of article 6 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination" (1977).
Chapter on the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of the Manual on Human Rights Reporting (United Nations publication).
Mario Jorge YUTZIS (Argentina)
Place and date of birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 26 July 1936
Working languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese and Italian
Current position/function:
Vice-Chairman of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
Elected CERD's special liaison officer to the Commission on Human Rights
Full professor at the Higher Evangelical Institute for Theological Studies, Buenos Aires
Main professional activities:
Member of CERD's contact group for the organization of the next World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (2001)
Appointed CERD's rapporteur for Croatia during the conflict in Serbia
Appointed CERD's rapporteur for Guatemala
Member of the Human Rights Evaluation Mission in El Salvador (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)
Member, Mission to Monitor Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh, organized by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
Educational background:
Master of Theology, Lutheran Faculty of Theology, Buenos Aires;
Doctor of Religious Sciences, Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Strasbourg, France; University studies in psychology and anthropology, Montevideo and Buenos Aires
Other main activities of relevance:
Coordinator, Latin American Council of the International Movement against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR)
Member of the Advisory Council of ARIS (Anti-Racism Information Service)
Member of the Argentine delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1987 and 1988)
Argentine representative to United Nations working groups drafting the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1987-1988) and the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National, Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
Most recent publications in this area:
Mark Horkheimer y la Critica de la Razón Instrumental como recurso de liberación, Buenos Aires, 1997
Alternative economics: Latin America Moves to the XXIst Century, Geneva, 1998
Hegal, Fukuyama y el Fin de la Historia, Buenos Aires, 1994
Date and place of birth: December 1932, Shanghai, China
Working languages: English, Chinese
Current position/function:
Executive Governor, China Law Society
Member, China Research Institute of Human Rights
Vice-President, Chinese Society of Private International Law
Adviser, China Women Judges Association
Member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Main professional activities:
1954-1972 Lecturer of International Law, Beijing Institute of Political Science and Law
1982-1987 Legal Adviser, State Oceanic Administration
1987-1994 Director-General, Bureau of International Legal Affairs, Ministry of Justice; concurrently, Professor of Law, Wuhan University, China University of Political Science and Law, and Zhongnan College of Political Science and Law
1988-1993 Member of Executive Committee, All China Women's Federation
Council Member, Chinese Society of International Law
Standing Council Member, China Institute for the Law of the Sea
Vice-President, Institute of Procedure Law, China Law Society
Participated in bilateral negotiations for agreements on judicial assistance with other countries
Attended Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders
Facilitator, Workshop on Violence against Women, NGO Forum, Fourth World Conference on Women
Educational background:
1950 Enrolled in Beijing University Law School
1952 Transferred to Beijing Institute of Political Science and Law from the above
1954 LL.B., Beijing Institute of Political Science and Law
1980-1982 Visiting Scholar of International Law, Denver University Law School, Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned:
Council Member, Institute of Law on Ethnic Groups, China Law Society
Participated in a study tour to Tibet in 1996
Member of Legal Advisers Committee, All China Association for Overseas Chinese
Council Member, Western Returned Scholars Association of China
List of most recent publications in the field:
China's Legal System: China's International Judicial Assistance
Survey of China's System of National Regional Autonomy
The Protection of the Rights of Ethnic Minorities in China's Judicial System
Provisions on Judicial Assistance in China's Civil Procedure Law
The Role of International Judicial Assistance in the Process of Reform and Opening to the Outside World