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Convention on the Rights of the Child |
Distr. GENERAL CRC/SP/33/Add.3 21 January 2003 Original: ENGLISH |
MEETING OF STATES PARTIES
Ninth Meeting
New York, 10 February 2003
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 2003
Note by the Secretary‑General
Addendum
1. The present addendum contains additional nominations for election to the Committee on the Rights of the Child received after 2 November 2002, which was the date referred to by the Secretary‑General in his note verbale dated 2 September 2002 and in conformity with article 43, paragraph 4, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. All nominations submitted before 2 November 2002 are contained in document CRC/SP/33. Biographical data of the persons nominated, as furnished by the State parties concerned, are contained in the annex to the present document.
Name of candidate Nominated by
Gauri PRADHAN Nepal
GE.03-40202 (E) 210103
Annex
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA OF NOMINEES
Gauri PRADHAN
(NEPAL)
Date and place of birth: 5 August 1962, Sindhupalchok, Nepal
Working language: English
Current position/function:
President, Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre (CWIN)
President, NGO Federation of Nepal
Member, Central Child Welfare Board
Coordinator, Task Force for the formulation of National Plans of Actions as the follow-up
to the General Assembly special session on children
Coordinator, Global March against Child Labour, South Asia
Main professional activities:
Has been playing leading advocacy role as a Founder President of CWIN and the NGO
Federation of Nepal in bringing to the fore the issues and problems of child workers in Nepal
Editorial adviser, Voice of Child Workers
Editorial adviser, Bal Sarokar - a monthly Nepali magazine devoted to awareness-generating
activities related to the welfare of children in Nepal
One of the founder members of the South Asian Regional Forum on the Rights of the Child,
and the South Asian Coalition Against Child Servitude
Resource person - human rights, child rights (CRC), gender, child labour, juvenile justice,
children in conflict, crimes against women and children, advocacy in action
Adviser, Nepal Blind Association, Kantipur Today (monthly magazine)
Educational background:
M.B.A. (Master of Business Administration) Tribhuvan University, Nepal
B. Com. (Bachelor of Commerce) Tribhuvan University, Nepal
B. LL (Thesis on Child Labour) Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the body concerned:
President, Children at Risk Networking Group (CAR-NWG), 1994-1997
Member of Child Development and Child Rights Task Force/Ministry of Women and
Social Welfare, 1996
Coordinator of the Task Force on the Review of the Project on Street Children in
Sri Lanka, 1993
National Coordinator, Global March against Child Labour, 1998
Central Adviser, Nepal Police-UNICEF Programme against Trafficking in Women and
Children, 1999
Research Adviser to ILO Research Project on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Nepal, 2000
Adviser, formulation of curriculum on social justice, Department of Population Studies,
T.U., 1999
Executive member, Kanti Children's Hospital, 1996
List of most recent publications in the field:
Children Caught under the Whirlpool of War, Misery Behind the Looms (English), Child Labour in Nepal (English), The Rights of the Child (English/Nepali), Justice for Children (Nepali), Children at Risk, Lost Childhood, Street Children in Kathmandu, Unfair Labour Practices in Nepal, About Child Sex and Paedophiles, Management of Child Care Homes (Nepali), and more than 200 articles on children and women in Nepal.
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