UNITED

NATIONS

CRC

 

 

 

Convention on the

Rights of the Child

 

 

 

Distr.

GENERAL

 

CRC/SP/24/Add.1

16 December 1998

 

Original:  ENGLISH

 

 

 

 

MEETING OF STATES PARTIES

Seventh meeting

New York, 16 February 1999

Item 5 of the provisional agenda

         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 1999

                         Note by the SecretarynGeneral

                                   Addendum

1. The present addendum contains biographical data concerning Ms. Mira Jangaracheva, whose candidacy has been put forward by the Kyrgyz Republic.

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                               Mira JANGARACHEVA

                                 (Kyrgyzstan)

Date and place of birth:      30 March 1952, Kyrgyzstan

Working languages:            Russian and English

Current position/function:    Counsellor of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Head of the Department of Social Policy in the President's Administration

Main professional activities

1974n1989   Associate Professor, Head of the Chair of the Kyrgyzstan Polytechnic Institute

1989n1992   Studies for Ph.D. at the Philosophy Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)

1992n1995   Deputy Mayor of the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek

1995n1996   Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Kyrgyz Parliament

1996n1998   VicenPrime Minister of the Kyrgyz Government on social policy

1998        Counsellor of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, Head of the Department of Social Policy in the President's Administration

Educational background

B.Sc. Faculty of History of the Kyrgyz State University

Academic postngraduate and Ph.D. studies in Philosophy at the Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)

Other main relevant activities

Chairwoman of the national committee preparing the national report on implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Kyrgyzstan

Chairwoman of the national committee preparing the national report on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action

Chairwoman of the Coordination Committee for the reform of the health care system in Kyrgyzstan

Chairwoman of the National Council on Gender in the Office of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic

Deputy Chairman of the Council on Disabled Persons

Deputy Chairman of the National Committee to Combat Poverty


Most recent relevant publications

Author of more than 40 publications on social matters, including drafting of the basic laws on women and child relief

Consultant to international organizations on poverty and in support of the nonngovernmental organization, Women and Disabled Children

Kyrgyzstan Centre for World Research:  ARenaissance or regress@, Bishkek, 1996

Demos News, 1997, No. 1, ASocial stability as a condition for the extension of the democratic reforms in the Kyrgyz Republic@

AM. Gandy.  Tolerant ideas and contemporary times@, Bishkek, 1998

Monograph, AChild Rights in Kyrgyzstan:  reality and future@, Bishkek, 1998

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