ELECTION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 43 OF THE CONVENTION ON
THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, OF FIVE MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE ON
THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD, TO REPLACE THOSE WHOSE TERMS ARE
DUE TO EXPIRE ON 28 FEBRUARY 1997
Note by the SecretarynGeneral
Addendum
1. The present addendum contains additional nominations for
election to the Committee on the Rights of the Child, received
after the submission by the SecretarynGeneral of the list of
candidates in documents CRC/SP/21 and CRC/SP/21/Add.1.
Biographical data of the persons nominated, as furnished by the
States parties concerned, are contained in the annex to the present
document.
Name of
candidateNominated by
Mrs. Tadjzeman
Danesh
Islamic Repubic of Iran
Mr. Abderrahmane
Moslih
Morocco
Mrs. Maria Cristina
Salazar
Colombia
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Annex
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA OF NOMINEES
Tadjzeman Danesh, Islamic Republic of Iran
Place of birthProvince of Tabriz
Academic studies Bachelor's degree in Law from
Tehran University
Doctorate degree in Criminology from the University of
AixnennProvence, France (1962)
Doctorate degree in Penal Law from University of Neuchâtel,
Switzerland (1965)
Professional status since 1965
Professor of Penitentiary Sciences, University of Police,
Tehran
Director General of the Judicial Department of the Ministry of
National Education
Professor of Juvenile Delinquency, Penitentiary Sciences and
Criminology, University of Tehran, Law Department
Publications
Fourteen articles in Farsi and French on juvenile justice and
prevention of crime, as well as the following books:
1. Penology (1972)
2. Justice for children under comparative
law
3. Elements of penitentiary sciences (the
application of penalties and security measures in Iran and
Switzerland)
4. Penology and the penitentiary sciences
5. The penitentiary law and the penitentiary
sciences
6. Delinquent children and delinquent youth
under comparative law
7. Who is the criminal? What is
criminology?
Member of the following associations
Association of Family Judges and Judges for Young People
(administration of juvenile justice)
Association for the International Protection of Children
International Institute for the Right to French Expression and
Inspiration
Participation in international meetings since 1962. The
following is a list of some of the most recent ones:
Congress on Research and Penitentiary Sciences
(1981 n Messina, Italy)
VicenPresident of the 11th Congress of Judges for Children
(1982 n Netherlands)
International Congress of Judges for Childrn (1989 n
Netherlands)
International Congress on Crime Prevention and the Treatment of
Offenders (1990 n Austria)
Eighth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and
the Treatment of Offenders (1990 n Cuba)
International Congress of Family Judges and Judges for Children
(1990 n Italy)
International Congress on Protection of Children (1992 n
Spain)
International Congress of Family Judges and Judges for Children
(1994 n Germany)
Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the
Treatment of Offenders (1995 n Egypt)
Abderrahmane Moslih (Morocco)
Doctorate in private law in 1980 (in Arabic)
President of division at the Supreme Court in Morocco
Professor at the National Institute of Judicial Studies
Former professor in the Law Faculty at Fès
Former professor at the National School of Public
Administration
Former President of the Moroccan Federation for Child Welfare
and Family Awareness
Former head of the Juvenile Delinquency Service
Adviser to the Moroccan League for the Protection of
Children
Adviser to the Moroccan Association for UNICEF
Member of several other associations
Participation in several national and international meetings and
conferences,
including:
World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children, Stockholm
Committee on the Rights of the Child meeting to consider the
report of Morocco on the implementation of the rights of the child,
Geneva
María Cristina Salazar (Colombia)
Academic studies
Bachelor's degree in philosophy, literature and pedagogy,
Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá.
M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology. Catholic University of
America, Washington, D.C.
Professional status
1959-1962: Professor and dean of the Faculty of Social
Sciences,
Universidad Javeriana.
1963-1996: Associate professor in the Faculty of Human
Sciences, National University of Colombia.
1992 to present: President of the Colombian Section of
Defense for Children International Movement.
1992 to present: Vice-Coordinator of the International
Working Group on Child Labour, which in 1996 is completing a world
survey of child labour based on 40 case studies in various
countries.
1982 to present: Consultant to UNICEF, UNESCO and ILO on
issues relating to children, education, school development, rural
schools, and child labour.
1992: Coordinator of the
study on floriculture in the Bogotá savannah conducted at the
National University in collaboration with various entities.
Publications
Author of numerous studies on children and other topics
published in articles and journals in Colombia and abroad.
These include:
1973: Regionalización y
educación primaria en areas rurales de Boyacá
(Regionalization and primary education in rural areas of
Boyacá). Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica
de Colombia, Tunja.
1974: Evaluation of the
rural education project of the Government of Uganda
1975: Study on the concentation
of coffeenplantation ownership in Tolima. CLACSO
1976: Human resources in Santa
Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
1981: The destructive wave of
large commercial farming in Colombia, Vienna
1982: Los condenados del tabaco,
Aparcería en Boyacá (The tobacco slaves.
Sharecropping in Boyacá). Tercer Mundo, Bogotá
1984: Educación preescolar y
definición de la primera niñez (Prenschool education and
definition of early childhood). Revista Colombiana deEducación. Universidad Pedagógica Nacional,
Bogotá
1985: Aspectos pedagógicos
en algunos Hogares Infantiles del ICBF en Bogotá (Pedagogical
aspects in some children's homes of the Colombian Family Welfare
Institute in Bogotá). Revista Colombiana en
Educación
1990: Niños y jóvenes
trabajadores; buscando un futuro mejor (Working children and youths
looking for a better future). Universidad Nacional y Tercer
Mundo. Bogotá
1992: Niñez y
Violencia. El caso de América Latina (Children and
Violence. The case of Latin America). Tercer Mundo.
Since 1986 published numerous articles on child labour in
Colombia and Latin America, as well as on social policies,
social work, human rights and the rights of the child. The
ILO and UNICEF have sponsored a number of these publications.
Distinctions
Received many distinctions, the principal one being the Medal
for Academic Merit of the National University of Colombia.
