Meeting of States parties to the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women
Twelfth meeting
New York, 29 August 2002
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CEDAW/SP/2002/1. |
Item 5 of the provisional agenda*
Election, in accordance with article 17, paragraphs 4 and 5, of the
Convention, of twelve members of the Committee,
to replace those whose terms are due to expire on
31 December 2002
Note by the Secretary-General
1.
In accordance with article 17, paragraph 4, of the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the
Secretary-General will convene the twelfth meeting of States
parties at United Nations Headquarters on 29 August 2002, for the
election of 12 members of the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women from a list of persons nominated by
States parties to replace those whose terms are due to expire on 31
December 2002 (see annex I). The names of the other 11 members, who
will continue to serve on the Committee until 31 December 2004,
appear in annex II.
2.
In compliance with article 17, paragraph 3, of the Convention, the
Secretary-General, in a note verbale dated 19 November 2001,
invited the States parties to submit their nominations for the
election of 12 members of the Committee not later than 15 July
2002. The Secretary-General has prepared the following list, in
alphabetical order, of all persons nominated by 15 July 2002,
indicating the States parties that had nominated them.
Candidate
|
Nominated by |
|
|
|
|
Mary Atieno Ang’awa |
Kenya |
|
Meriem Belmihoub-Zerdani |
Algeria |
|
Feng Cui |
China |
|
Cornelis Flinterman |
Netherlands |
|
Naela Mohamed Gabr |
Egypt |
|
Savitri Goonesekere |
Sri Lanka |
|
Tadelech Haile Michael |
Ethiopia |
|
Akua Kuenyehia |
Ghana |
|
Rosario G. Manalo |
Philippines |
|
Mavuela Mayisa |
Democratic Republic of the Congo |
|
Krisztina Morvai |
Hungary |
|
Zelmira Regazzoli |
Argentina |
|
Fumiko Saiga |
Japan |
|
Dubravka Šimonović |
Croatia |
3.
The curricula vitae of the above candidates, as furnished by their
Governments, are contained in annex III.
Annex I
List of the twelve members of the Committee whose terms expire on
31 December 2002
|
Member |
Country of nationality |
|
|
|
|
Charlotte Abaka |
Ghana |
|
Emna Aouij |
Tunisia |
|
Ivanka Corti |
Italy |
|
Feng Cui |
China |
|
Naela Gabr |
Egypt |
|
Savitri Goonesekere |
Sri Lanka |
|
Rosalyn Hazelle |
Saint Kitts and Nevis |
|
Rosario Manalo |
Philippines |
|
Mavivi Myakayaka-Manzini |
South Africa |
|
Frances Livingstone Raday |
Israel |
|
Zelmira Regazzoli |
Argentina |
|
Fumiko Saiga |
Japan |
Annex II
List of the eleven members who will continue to serve on the
Committee until 31 December 2004
|
Member |
Country of nationality |
|
|
|
|
Ayse Feride Acar |
Turkey |
|
Sjamsiah Achmad |
Indonesia |
|
Françoise Gaspard |
France |
|
Yolanda Ferrer Gómez |
Cuba |
|
Aída González Martínez |
Mexico |
|
Christine Kapalata |
United Republic of Tanzania |
|
Fatima Kwaku |
Nigeria |
|
Göran Melander |
Sweden |
|
Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling |
Germany |
|
Heisoo Shin |
Republic of Korea |
|
Maria Regina Tavares da Silva |
Portugal |
Annex III
Curricula vitae of candidates
Mary Atieno Ang’awa (Kenya)
Place and date of birth: Mombasa, Kenya,
8 March 1954
Nationality:
Kenyan
Address:
P.O. Box 63824
Nairobi, Kenya
Marital
status:
Single
Mission statement
To uphold justice and fairness for all without
fear or favour.
To ensure that the rule of law is
maintained.
Career/experience
1999
Puisne Judge — High Court of Kenya, Nairobi
1996-1998
Resident Judge — High Court of Kenya, Mombasa
1993-1995
Resident Judge — High Court of Kenya, Nyeri
1991-1993
Commissioner, Advocates Complaints Commission
1989-1991
Chairman, Rent Restriction Tribunal
1990
Chief Magistrate
1987
Senior Resident Magistrate, subordinate courts of Kenya
1986
Secretary, Commission inquiring into the Insurance Industry
1982
Resident Magistrate — subordinate courts of Kenya
1980
District Magistrate — subordinate courts of Kenya
Education
1963-1969
Maxwell Preparatory School (CPE)
1970-1975
Limuru Girl’s School (O’ and A’ Levels)
1976-1979
University of Nairobi (LLB)
1979-1980
Kenya School of Law (Advocate)
Professional courses and assignments
1984
Short course
Planning services for the offender in the community
Swansea University College, Wales
1986
Secretary, Kenya Magistrates Association
1988-1990
International Commission of Jurists
1993
Kenya Women Judges Association
1996
Member — The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Kenya
Branch)
1998
Eisenhower Exchange Fellow — United States of America
1998
National Judicial College
Reno, United States
Logic and opinion-writing course
1998
Federal Judicial Center
Washington, United States
The United States Judicial System
Fellowship
1999
Special fellowship course (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators)
Translated from French
Meriem Belmihoub-Zerdani (Algeria)
Born in Algiers on 1 April 1935
Married in 1966, mother of three children, all
lawyers
Address: Conseil de la
Nation
7 Boulevard Ziroud Youcef
Algiers
Telephone: (021) 73 62 60; Fax: (021) 73 62 12
Home: 17
Chemin Youcef Tayebi el Biar
Algiers
Telephone: (021) 92 52 41; Law office: (021) 63 38 80
Primary and secondary studies in Algiers and
Paris
University studies in Paris and Algiers
Member, National Liberation Front —
National Liberation Army (FLN-ALN) (War of National Liberation)
Maquisard in 1956, detained in Algerian and
French prisons for four and a half years (War of National
Liberation)
Deputy of the National Constituent Assembly,
1962-1964
Member, Commission for Education and Culture
of that Assembly
Member of the Bureau of the National
Constituent Assembly
Licence en droit public (first degree
in public law), 1964
Attorney, Court of Algiers, 1964; appointed to
the Supreme Court, 1974
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Law,
1964-1967
Member, Bureau of the National Union of
Algerian Women, 1963-1965
Member, Algiers Bar Council, 1972-1976
Founding member, National Association to
Combat Illiteracy, 1964
President of the constituent assembly of the
Algerian Family Planning Association
Women’s rights activist
Head of the delegation received by the
President of the Algerian National Assembly (Parliament) in 1984 to
present a list of complaints and an alternate draft text of the
Family Code
Minister Counsellor to the head of Government
on legal and administrative affairs, 1992-1993
Member of the Council of the Nation (Senate),
January 1998-January 2001
Chair of the Group of Independent Senate
Members
Member of the Justice Reform Commission
established by the President of the Republic in 1999
Feng Cui (China)
Date and place of birth: 14 February 1940,
Henan, China
Working
languages:
English, Chinese
Current position/function
Member of the Secretariat, the All-China
Women’s Federation, Member of the National Committee of the
Ninth Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference;
Member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination
against Women (1999-2002).
Main professional activities
Head of the Chinese Women’s delegation
to some countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and North America,
to understand more about the women’s situation therein;
chairing and attending China-European Union Seminar on
women’s issues, China-Australia HRTR: Workshop on Family
Violence in Minority areas, a training workshop on the Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and
a white ribbon campaign organized in cooperation with the United
Nations Development Fund for Women; Co-director for some
international cooperation projects, such as the China-Canada
women’s law project, re-employment and venture creation for
laid-off women workers sponsored by the United Nations Development
Programme, International Labour Organization/ International
Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour Mekong subregional
project to combat trafficking in children and women; participating
in the discussions and drafting of the amendment to the marriage
law of the People’s Republic of China; Head of Chinese
delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women.
Educational background
Foreign Language Institute of Beijing. Major:
International Relations
Other main activities in the filed relevant to the mandate of the
treaty body concerned
Attending many seminars held at home and
international symposiums on women, including on women’s
education, health, human rights and domestic violence; on behalf of
the All-China Women’s Federation, meeting and having
discussions with Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights, and Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and Assistant to the
Secretary-General, in November 2001; Secretary-General of the China
Organizing Committee for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) Women Leaders Network Meeting 2001, whose focus was the
development of women’s entrepreneurship and gender
mainstreaming into APEC processes and activities; meeting with many
women ministers and women parliamentarians from foreign countries
and a number of first ladies.
Cornelis Flinterman (Netherlands)
Date and place of birth: 3 November 1944, The
Hague
Working
languages:
Dutch, English, German, French
Current position/function
Professor of Human Rights (Utrecht
University)
Director, Netherlands Institute of Human
Rights
Director, Netherlands School of Human Rights
Research
Main professional activities
Research in the field of comparative,
international and constitutional law of (women’s) human
rights
Teaching international, regional (European,
Inter-American, African) and national law of (women’s) human
rights
Organization of and participation in training
courses on human rights (of women) for particular target groups
inside and outside the Netherlands
Educational background
LL.M. University of Leyden, the Netherlands,
1969
LL.M. University of Virginia, United States,
1971
PhD (Law), University of Leyden, the
Netherlands, 1981
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the
treaty body concerned
Member of Advisory Council on International
Affairs and Chair of its standing committee on human rights
Member of Advisory Council of African Centre
for Human Rights and Democracy Studies (Bandul, the Gambia)
Chair of Centre on Housing Rights and
Evictions (Geneva)
Vice-chair of International Service for Human
Rights
Member of Editorial Board of Netherlands
Quarterly of Human Rights
Member of Editorial Board of African Journal
of Human Rights
Member of Advisory Board of Maastricht Journal
of European and Comparative Law
Most recent publications
Flinterman, C., “Women’s Rights
and the Right to Complain. Towards an Optional Protocol to the
Women’s Convention”, in: Erik Denters and Nico
Schrijver (eds.), Reflections on International Law from the Low
Countries in Honour of Paul de Waart, Martinus Nijhoff
Publishers, The Hague, 1998, pp. 183-191.
Flinterman, C. and E. Ankumah, “The
African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights”, in: H.
Hannum, Guide to international human rights practice, 3rd.
rev. ed., New York: Transnational Publishers, 1999, pp.
163-177.
Flinterman, C. and C. Henderson, :Special
human rights treaties”, in: R. Hanski and M. Sukksi
(eds.), An introduction to the international protection of human
rights, 2nd. rev. ed., Åbo (Finland): Åbo Akademi
University, 1999, pp. 125-142.
Flinterman, C., “Extraconventional
standard setting in the field of human rights”, in:
R. Hanski and M. Sukksi (eds.), An introduction to the
international protection of human rights, 2nd. rev. ed.,
Åbo (Finland): Åbo Akademi University, 1999,
pp. 143‑150.
Flinterman, C. and V. de Graaf,
“Diplomatie en mensenrechten: van gespannen verhouding naar
gearrangeerd huwelijk (Human rights: from a tense relation to an
arranged marriage)”, in: J. Melissen (ed.), Diplomatie,
raderwerk van de internationale politiek, Assen: Van Gorcum,
1999, pp. 90-111.
Naela Mohamed Gabr (Egypt)
Education
Master’s Degree in International
Relations, University of Cairo
Master’s Degree in French Literature,
University of Brno, Czechoslovakia
B.A. Economics and Political Science,
University of Cairo
Career
January
2002
Permanent Representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the
United Nations Office at Geneva
December
1999
Appointed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
Arab Republic of Egypt to the Republic of South Africa and
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of
Botswana (non-resident) and to the Kingdom of Lesotho
(non-resident)
1999
Deputy Assistant Minister for Human Rights, International Social
and Humanitarian Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Private Secretary to the First Lady of Egypt, Mrs. Suzane
Mubarak
Elected member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination
of Discrimination against Women in 1998
1988-1992
Served at the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations in
Geneva
1980-1984
Served at the Embassy of Egypt in Paris
1977-1980
Office of the First Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Chef de
Cabinet of the President
Activities and work experience
Substantive preparation (including the
drafting of national reports) at the national and international
levels and in coordination with the competent authorities and
non-governmental organizations for the following world events:
1.
Ninth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the
Treatment of Offenders, Cairo, Egypt, April 1995
2.
World Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, Denmark, March
1995
3.
World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, Yokohama, Japan,
May 1994
4.
International Year of the Family, 1994
Responsible for substantive cooperation with
UNICEF, HCR, DHA, UNDCP and the Centre for Human Rights,
1992-1999
Focal Point in the Egyptian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs regarding issues related to women, children and
social development, 1992-1999
Conferences
Participated in United Nations conferences and
meetings from 1988 until 2001 dealing with human rights and social
and development issues, including:
World
Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and
Related Intolerance, Durban, South Africa, September 2001
World
Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, 1993
International Conference on Population and Development, Cairo,
1994
World
Summit for Social Development, Copenhagen, 1995
Fourth
World Conference on Women, Beijing, October 1995
Commission on Human Rights, 1988-1997
Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities, 1988-1992
Represented Egypt as well as panelling and presenting papers to the
following conferences:
1.
Asia/Africa Forum on Economic Empowerment of Women, Bangkok,
Thailand, 15-20 July 1997
2.
Conference on Terrorism in the Transatlantic Area, Brussels, 25-26
April 1997
3.
Conference on Women in Europe and the Mediterranean, Morocco, 27-29
May 1994
4.
Meeting of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe on
the implementation of human dimension issues, Warsaw, Poland,
October 1993
5.
International Conference on Social Development and Poverty, Oaxaca,
Mexico, 6-13 September 1993
Awards
Egyptian Meritorious Award
Foreign languages
French and English
Mrs. Naela Gabr was born on 19 February 1950
in Cairo and has one daughter and one grandson.
Savitri Goonesekere (Sri Lanka)
Name:
Savitri Wimalawathie Ellepola Goonesekere
Date of
birth: 7 April
1939
Address:
304/5, Park Road, Colombo 5, Sri Lanka
Current position
Vice Chancellor and Senior Professor of Law,
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, the oldest national university
and a recognized institution in the Asia-Pacific region. Completed
term of office as first woman Vice Chancellor of a Sri Lankan
University in May 2002. Member, Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women and a five-member working group of the
Committee on the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Educational background
LL.B. (Cey.), LL.M. Harvard, Attorney at Law,
Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, University of Ceylon, Scholarship for
best performance in Faculty of Arts (1958); First Class Honours,
Bachelor of Laws Degree, University of Ceylon, Peradeniya (1961);
Smith-Mundt Fullbright Scholar to Harvard Law School, United
States, 1962/1963; Commonwealth Universities Commission, Fellowship
for Senior Academic Staff, Commonwealth Universities (1972); Winner
of National Literary Award for book on family law published in Sri
Lanka in 1980; Association of Commonwealth Universities Fellowship
(1987), Guest Lecturer, Seminar for PhD Students. Women and
Autonomy Centre (VENA), Rijks Universitat, Leiden, Netherlands
(November 1993); Visiting fellow, Human Rights Programme, Harvard
Law School, United States (1994); Guest lecturer, International
Interdisciplinary Course on Children’s Rights, University of
Ghent, Belgium (1997-1998); (D.Litt.) Honoris Causa, Open
University of Sri Lanka (2001).
Professional activities
Senior Professor of Law and Dean, Faculty of
Humanities and Social Sciences, Open University of Sri Lanka,
Nawala (1983-1995); Senior Research Fellow, UNICEF International
Child Development Centre, Florence, Italy (1990-1991); Consultant
to ILO Geneva, UNICEF South Asia Regional Office, Kathmandu,
Consultant and Advisor on Child Rights to UNICEF South Asia
Regional Office, Bangkok, ESCAP Bangkok (1992-2000); Cited in
UNICEF State of the World’s Children Report 2000, in
list of persons acknowledged for “leadership in the best
interests of the child” (2000); Consultant and resource
person for the Government of Sri Lanka and several national and
international non-governmental organizations, UNICEF New York and
Colombo, UNDP New York, UNDP Manila, UNIFEM New Delhi, national
agencies working in the area of human rights women’s issues,
child rights, law reform (2000-2001); Senior Professor of Law,
Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (from November
1995 to date); Associate Editor, International Survey of Family
Law, the International Society of Family Law; Member, University
Grants Commission, (1994-1999); National Commission on Women,
National Commission on Education, Sri Lanka; Member, Board of
Management, Centre for Women’s Research, Sri Lanka.
Publications and books
Law of Persons in Sri Lanka, M. D. Gunasena
(Colombo, 1980); Sri Lanka Law on Parent and Child, M. D. Gunasena
(Colombo, 1987) [cited in cases in the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka];
Children Law and Justice: A South Asian Perspective, a Study of the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in South Asia;
Sage Publishers, New Delhi (1997), [Recommended reading in Child
Law course, National Law School, Bangalore, India, University of
London (United Kingdom), several law schools in Australia, the
United States and India, in Child Rights courses of
Ombudsman’s Office, Sweden, Listed in Sage Publications India
Catalogue, 2000, in the “best seller” category]; Women,
Sexual Violence and the Legal Process in Sri Lanka (Co-author)
Centre for Women’s Research, Colombo (1998); Muslim Personal
Law on Family Relations in Sri Lanka, Muslim Women’s Research
and Action Forum, Colombo, 2001.
Monographs, chapters in books, journal articles and teaching
texts
Over 70 publications in Sri Lanka and
internationally recognized publishing houses, including in the
Asia-Pacific region.
In press
Three articles
Teaching texts
Open University of Sri Lanka teaching texts
and updates of course materials (LLB programme) (1983-1995).
Co-author, Open University, Case Book on
Fundamental Rights in Sri Lanka (1998).
Audio-visual material, Open University of Sri
Lanka audio and video cassettes on legal issues.
Keynote addresses, special lectures and memorial orations
“Children and Justice: Integrating
International Standards into the National Context”,
International Conference on Shaping the Future by Law, Indian Law
Institute, New Delhi, March (1994), published as The Child and
the Law (New Delhi UNICEF Country Office); Violence against
Women: Developments in Sri Lanka Law, Justice Sunanda Bhandare
Lecture, New Delhi (1998) (published); “The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights: Fifty Years” United Nations
Organization Meeting, Yangon, Myanmar (1998); “Integrating
International Standards into Domestic Case Law in Some South Asian
Countries”, keynote address, SAARC Law Conference, Colombo,
Sri Lanka (1999); UNFPA World Population Day Oration, Colombo, Sri
Lanka (2000), “Human Rights as a Foundation for Family Law
Reform”, keynote address, Tenth International World
Conference of the International Society of Family Law, Brisbane,
Australia (2000); “Reform of Personal Law in South Asia and
Equality for Women”, Third Lawyers’ Collective
Colloquium, New Delhi (2001).
Membership in international and regional committees
Member, SAARC Panel of Experts on Children
(1991); member, External Advisory Committee, UNICEF International
Child Development Centre, Florence, Italy (1992); Chairperson,
Committee on Feminism, International Law Association, United
Kingdom (1992-1995); member, Advisory Board, International
Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia-Pacific (1995 to date);
member, International Advisory Council, Institute for Family and
Society, University of South Carolina, United States (1997-1998);
member, External Research Advisory Committee, Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva (1998-1999); member,
Advisory Committee International Women’s Rights Action Watch
(1997 to date); member, External Forum on Gender, Asian Development
Bank (2001 to date).
Zonta International Women of Achievement
Award, 1989.
President’s Award for Women of
Achievement in Sri Lanka 2000.
Tadelech Haile Michael (Ethiopia)
I. Personal data
Name
Tadelech Haile Michael
Sex
Female
Date of
birth 14
November 1953
Marital
status Widow (mother of three
children)
Nationality Ethiopian
II. Languages
English Very good (both
spoken and written)
French Very good
(both spoken and written)
III. Educational background
Licence en histoire moderne et sociologie
(June 1976), Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Studied journalism (1975-1976) at the Institut
de journalisme, Fribourg, Switzerland
IV. Professional experience
February
2002
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia to
Côte d’Ivoire
1997-2002
Head of Women’s Affairs Section, with the rank of Minister in
the Office of the Prime Minister
Main duties:
• Coordinating gender-related issues at the national
level
• Managing gender mainstreaming in sector ministries
programmes at the central level
• Managing gender mainstreaming in bilateral programmes as
well as in United Nations agencies’ country programmes
• Managing gender mainstreaming in the overall development
programmes of the Government
• Designing specific women’s programmes at the national
level
• Monitoring and evaluation of gender programmes at different
levels through the development mechanism
1992-1995
Head of Women’s Affairs Section, with the Rank of Deputy
Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister
Main duties:
• Designing a national women’s policy as a strategy for
gender mainstreaming
• Designing an institutional mechanism for the implementation
of the national women’s policy
• Preparing a national data bank of women professionals
• Designing a training modality in gender and development
• Designing capacity-building programmes at different
levels
• Coordinating gender-specific programmes at the national
level managed by the Government and non-government
organizations
1991-1992
Officer in Charge of Gender Programme in the Women’s Affairs
Department
Main duties:
• Establishing the office and designing a mechanism for
integrating gender issues in government programmes
• Identifying personnel
• Establishing a network with different agencies and
non-governmental organizations working on the gender programme in
the country
• Ensuring the resumption of programmes suspended owing to
the change that took place in the country
• Acting as a bridge between government and non-governmental
organizations and United Nations agencies
• Organizing seminars to assess the women’s movement
and its performance in the past
1980-1991
Teacher in the Addis Ababa Central Prison High School
Main duties:
• Assisting twelfth grade students in preparation for final
School Living National Examination in the subjects of history and
the French language
1977-1980
Head Documentalist, Radio International Service Programming
Department (six weeks)
Publications
1.
History of Ethiopian Women’s Movements and the impact on the
women’s lives (1993), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2.
Ethiopian Women and Election (1992), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
3.
Situation of Ethiopian Women and their role in the society (1992),
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
4.
Gender perspective of Ethiopia’s agriculture strategy and
sustainable food security (1996), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Major conferences attended
1.
Micro Credit Summit 1997, Washington, D.C., as Head of the
Ethiopian delegation
2.
African Women Leaders in Promoting Peace 1997, Johannesburg, as
Secretary of the Ad hoc Committee that initiated the peace document
of the African Region for the Beijing Platform for Action
3.
Ethiopia Country Report Presenter, 1996, New York
4.
Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, September 1995, Head of
the Ethiopian delegation and presenter of the African Peace Torch
to the conference organizer
5.
Third African-American Summit 1995, Dakar, as expert on gender
6.
Fifth Regional Conference on Women, 1994, Dakar, in preparation for
the Fourth World Conference on Women, as Head of the Ethiopian
Delegation
7.
Preparatory Conference for the Fourth World Conference on Women,
New York, 1994
8.
International Conference on Population and Development, Expert
meeting for Africa Region, New York, 1994, strategy on gender
9.
Rural Women’s Summit, 1993-Geneva, as representative of
Ethiopia
Training (short-term)
• Management training on gender and development at the
Ethiopian Management Institute (EMI), Debre Zeit, 1992 (four
weeks)
• Management on population information, education and
communication and project development, Nairobi, Kenya, 1993 (for
six weeks)
Akua Kuenyehia (Ghana)
Date and place of
birth
Ghana
Working
languages
English, French (basic), four local languages
Current
position/function
Acting Director of the Ghana School of Law since April 2001, and
the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana from May
1996 to date
Main professional
activities Lectured in many universities in Ghana,
the Netherlands, Nigeria and the United States of America. Awarded
a Commonwealth Foundation Fellowship in 1991. In addition to
lecturing, has undertaken consultancy work in various fields
relating to the advancement of the legal rights of women.
Chairperson of the National Executive Board of Women in Law and
Development in Africa and served as a member of many governing and
administrative boards of companies and associations
Educational
background
1969: LLB 2nd class (upper division), University
of Ghana
1970: Professional Diploma for Admission to Ghana
Bar
1972: BCL, University of Oxford, Oxford
1970: Awarded the Mensah Sarbah Prize for the
best student in the Professional Law Class
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the
treaty body concerned
• Coordinating a major research initiative on women and law
in Anglophone West Africa
• Training women leaders from community-based organizations
to carry out rights awareness and legal literacy programmes in
Ghana and other parts of Africa
• Consultancy work on women’s health and violence,
availability of credit for small-scale women entrepreneurs in Ghana
and opportunities for women consultants in Ghana
Most recent publications
(1) Women and
Law in West Africa, Situational Analysis of some key issues
affecting Women (1998)
Co-editor of the following publications:
(a) Improving
the Reform Process through Legal Training in Comprehensive Legal
and Judicial Development towards an Agenda for a Just and Equitable
Society in the 21st Century. Ed Rudolf V. Van Puymboroeck. The
World Bank, 2001, pp. 299-306.
(b) Legal
Literacy and the Process of Empowerment — A Personal
Experience in Capacity-building for Ghanaian Women. Ed Florence
Dolphyne and Esther Ofei-Aboagye (2001).
(c) Family Law
in Ghana and its Implications for Women — With Esther
Ofei‑Aboagye.
Rosario G. Manalo (Philippines)
Date and place of birth
2 October 1935, Philippines
Working languages
English, Spanish, French, Filipino
Current position
Philippine Senior Official for Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) Office of the President
Main professional activities
Special Envoy of President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo to Latin America (2001)
Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs
(1997-2001)
Career diplomat serving as Philippine
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland,
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (1994-1997); France and Portugal and
Permanent Delegates to UNESCO (1990-1994); Kingdom of Belgium and
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (1985-1987), European Economic Community
(1979-1987)
Professor, Philippine Women’s University
Graduate School of Public Administration, and De La Salle
University on International Relations and Diplomacy
Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute, on Gender
Issues and Human Rights, Economic Diplomacy; International
Relations; WTO
Educational background
Master of Arts in International Studies and
Diplomacy, Long Island University, New York
Master of Arts in Public Administration,
University of the Philippines
Bachelor of Law, University of the
Philippines
Bachelor of Science in Jurisprudence,
University of the Philippines
Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service,
University of the Philippines
Honorary Doctoral Degrees in Laws and Human
Letters from College of New Rochelle, New York, Centro Escolar
University and Philippine Women’s University in the
Philippines
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the
treaty
body concerned
Representative of the Secretary of Foreign
Affairs, National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women
(1997- )
Focal Point for Gender, Department of Foreign
Affairs (1997- )
Secretary-General, UNESCO National Commission
of the Philippines (1997-2001)
Expert, Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women (2001- ) and
currently its Vice Chairperson for Asia Pacific
Chairperson, Commission on the Status of Women
(1983-1986)
Member, UNESCO Administrative Council of the
International Fund for the Promotion of Culture (1999-2003)
Most recent publications
Peace through Human Security and Development
(1997)
Author of articles in the areas of
women’s issues, human rights, gender and development issues,
racism and racial discrimination; WTO; international trade, culture
of peace
Translated from French
Mavuela Mayisa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
I. Personal data
Place and date of birth: Mbanza-Ngungu,
18 February 1945
Father’s
name:
Mayisa Kikandu
Mother’s
name:
Ntonono Meli
Community:
Ngeba
Territory:
Madimba
District:
Lukaya
Province:
Bas-Congo
II. Studies
Primary
studies
Lycée du Sacré-Coeur, Mbanza-Boma, Bas-Congo,
1952-1958
Secondary
studies
Modern Humanities, Lycée du Sacré-Coeur, Kinshasa,
1959-1964
Higher education Institut
Supérieur Pédagogique, Gombe (ISP) (Graduate,
French option), 1967
III. Professional activities
1969-1981
Ministry of National Education, consecutively
as:
–
Teacher, Limete School for Girls
–
Chief, Office of the Secretary-General for National Education
–
Chief, Division for Travel and Accommodations of Foreign
Teachers
1981 to date
Ministry of the Family, Women and Children,
successively as:
–
Regional Secretary for the Status of Women in the Province of
Bas-Congo (seven years)
–
Regional Secretary for the Condition of Women in the city of
Kinshasa
(two years)
–
Councillor in charge of Cooperation in the Cabinet of the Minister
of Social Affairs, Solidarity and the Family
–
Councillor in charge of the Family in the Cabinet of the Minister
of Health, Social Affairs and the Family
–
Director-in-Chief of General Services, General Secretariat for the
Family
–
Secretary-General for the Family, Ministry of Social Affairs and
the Family
IV. Other professional qualifications
• First Vice-Chair, National Committee on the International
Year of the Child, 1979
• First Vice-Chair, National Women’s Committee, since
1998
• First Vice-Chair, National Children’s Committee,
since 1998
• Honorary member, Committee of the Red Cross, Democratic
Republic of the Congo
V. Professional travel and missions
• 1975 Mission on Special Teaching, Belgium
• 1979 Participant, International Forum on the Rights of the
Child, Budapest, Hungary
• 1980 Participant, Second World Conference on Women,
Copenhagen, Denmark
• 1984 Participant, Mission of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations on Agricultural Advisory
Services, Burundi
• 1988 Participant, Congress of Central African Women,
Bangui, Central African Republic
• 1992 – At Kinshasa,
elected president of the PanAfrican Union of Women Teachers for
Integration and Development (UPEID), support structure for the
African Bureau for Educational Sciences (BASE)
– Participant, preparatory meeting for the UPEID
Constitutive Assembly, Dakar, Senegal
• 1993 Participant, on behalf of UPEID, in the General
Assembly of the Women’s League of the African National
Congress, at the invitation of Ms. Albertine Sisilu, Johannesburg,
South Africa
• 1994 Head of delegation of experts, Fifth African Regional
Conference on Women, Dakar, Senegal, in preparation for the Fourth
World Conference on Women to be held in Beijing, China
• 1997 Participant, Fourth General Assembly of the
International Union of Family Agencies, Iguaçu, Brazil
• 1998 – Participant,
nineteenth session of the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women, New York, United States of
America
– Participant, second study mission on the promotion of
women, population and development, organized by the Centre for
Research, Study, Documentation and Information on Women (CREDIF),
Tunis, Tunisia
• 1999
– Study and experience-sharing mission to Cameroon and
Senegal within the context of the implementation of the National
Programme for the Promotion of Congolese Women (1999-2004)
– Participant, twenty-first session of the Committee on
the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, New York, United
States of America
– Participant, Sixth African Regional Conference on
Women, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
•
2000
– Participant, twenty-second session of the
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, New
York, United States of America
– Participant, Beijing+5, twenty-third special session
of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, United States of
America
•
2001
– Participant, Regional Consultation on
Enhancing Women’s Participation in Peace-Keeping, Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia
– Participant, Preparatory Committee of the Special
Session of the United Nations General Assembly for Follow-up to the
World Summit for Children, New York, United States of America
Several missions into the interior of the
country.
VI. Training
•
1979
Seminar on day-care centres, Tunis, Tunisia
•
1982-1983
Training seminar on the planning, implementation and evaluation of
projects organized by the Gisenyi Multinational Programming and
Operational Planning Centre (MULPOC), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic
of the Congo
•
1985
Training seminar on public administration management, organized by
the United States Agency for International Development (USAID),
Kasangulu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
•
1990
Training seminar on development management, Atlanta, United States
of America
•
1992
Interregional seminar for pedagogical information-sharing and
action, organized by the African Bureau for Educational Sciences
(BASE), Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
•
1996
National forum on the rights and leadership of Congolese women,
Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
•
1999
– Gender training
– Computer skills: in progress
•
2000
Logical framework training
•
2001
Training in data collection, advocacy and communications
VII. Spoken and written languages
French: very good
Kikongo: very good
Lingala:
very good
English:
in progress
Krisztina Morvai (Hungary)
Education
LL.M (Master of Law) 1990,
University of London, King’s College
Judicial
Exam
1989, Supreme Court of Hungary and Ministry of Justice of Hungary
(qualified as judge after postgraduate program and professional
training)
Doctor
Juris
1986, Eötvös Loránd University, School of Law and
Political Science
Professional experience
Current positions
1987-
Associate Professor (1991-), Assistant Professor (1987-1991) of
Law, Eötvös Loránd University, School of Law and
Political Science, Department of Criminal Law
1998-
Director, Women’s Rights and Children’s Rights Research
and Training Centre Foundation, Budapest
Professional history
1991-1997
Lecturer (gender and the law courses), Education Abroad
Programme/Budapest, University of California and University of
Wisconsin (part time)
1994-1995
Staff Attorney, European Commission of Human Rights, Strasbourg (On
leave from Eötvös Loránd University)
1993-1994
Fulbright Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Law School
1989-1990
Count Széchenyi Scholar/Postgraduate Student at the University
of London, King’s College
1988-1989
Judicial Clerk, Supreme Court of Hungary (Judicial exam)
1986-1987
Trainee Attorney at Law, Bar of Pest County (Bar exam)
Awards and scholarships
1999
Ashoka Fellowship (“Innovators for the Public — award
in recognition of innovative contributions by individuals to the
public sector”)
1993
Fulbright Teaching Scholarship (for one year — teaching and
research in the United States)
1992
Freddie Mercury Prize, granted by the Red Cross for outstanding
work for the rights of people with HIV and AIDS
1989
Count Széchenyi Scholarship, granted for the first time by the
Government of the United Kingdom for one outstanding Hungarian
scholar’s postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom
Research grants
2000-2001
Equal Opportunities for Women and Men in the European Accession
Programme (Open Society Foundation)
1999-2000
“Why doesn’t she just leave?” (Domestic Violence
in Hungary), Research grant by the Institute for Human Sciences,
Vienna, under the Social Costs of Economic Transformation in
Central Europe (SOCO) program
1999
Trafficking in Women (Research and Information Programme of
IOM)
Courses taught
• Criminal law I. General
part and Sentencing
• Criminal law II. Special part
• Comparative Criminal Law. Principles of Criminal
Responsibility, Punishment and Sentencing
• “From the Role of Rule to the Rule of Law”
— the State, the Citizen and the Law Before and After the
Democratic Transition
• Constitutionalism, Civil Rights and the Democratic
Transition in East and Central Europe
• Gender and the Law
• Legal Clinic — Women and the Law/Domestic
Violence
• Human Rights Law
Selected list of publications
Book
–
Morvai, Krisztina: Terror a Családban — A
feleségbántalmazás és a jog (Kossuth
Kiadó, 1998, 307 old.)
(Terror in the Family — Wife abuse and the Law, Kossuth
Publisher, 1998,
307
pp.)
Research papers and book chapters
–
Morvai, Krisztina: “Why doesn’t she just leave?”
Research-based Policy Recommendations for the Prevention of and
Response to Domestic Violence in Hungary (SOCO Project Paper Series
No 101, Vienna 2001 — Institute for Human Sciences)
–
Morvai, Krisztina: Work and Work-related Rights of Women and Girls
(United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Division
for the Advancement of Women: Bringing International Human Rights
Law Home, Judicial Colloquium on the Domestic Application of the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, United
Nations, New York, 2000)
–
Morvai, Krisztina: The Construction of the Other in the European
Human Rights Enterprise, in P. Fitzpatrick and J. H. Bergeron
(eds): Europe’s Other: European Law between Modernity and
Postmodernity, Dartmouth Publishers, 1998
Articles in law reviews
–
What is Missing From the Rhetoric of Choice? (UCLA Women’s
Law Journal, vol. 5, 1995, pp. 445-471)
–
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Legal System: What it Means for
Women (UCLA Women’s Law Journal, vol. 5, No. 1, 1994, pp.
63-70)
–
Gender Discrimination — Related Cases Before the European
Commission and Court of Human Rights (Promoting Human Rights and
Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe, 1995)
Examples of previous accomplishments in
addressing discrimination against women include:
• Keynote speaker at the Judicial Colloquium on the
application of international human rights law at the domestic
level, Vienna, 1999, organized by the United Nations Division for
the Advancement of Women
• Panellist (invited expert) at the meeting of the
Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General
Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender, equality, development
and peace for the twenty-first century”, United Nations, New
York
• Rapporteur for IOM on trafficking in women in Hungary (upon
the request of the International Organization for Migration,
prepared the first Hungarian research on trafficking in women)
• Expert on violence against women for the last periodic
report of the Government of Hungary to the Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination against Women
• Member of the Council for the Representation of Women
(interdepartmental working group of the Government of Hungary with
participants from each ministry and from six leading women’s
non-governmental organizations, including the Women’s Rights
and Children’s Rights Research and Training Centre)
Zelmira Regazzoli (Argentina)
Date and place of birth: 5 August 1939, Santa
Rosa, La Pampa Province, Argentina
Divorced, with four children and five
grandchildren
Current position/function and main professional activities
1.
Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women
2.
Adviser, National Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Committee
on Agreements and Bicameral Committee on Women
3.
Adviser on International Affairs, SAMCONSUT, Argentina
4.
Honorary President of the Mercosur Committee on Women
(non-governmental organization)
5.
Member of PRONDEC (Programme on Democratization of Culture)
6.
Member of the Foundation for Integrated Argentine Development
7.
Adviser Ad honorem at the OIM
8.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Argentine Foundation for
Refugees
9.
Adviser Emeritus at the Inter-American Commission of Women of the
Organization of American States
Educational background
Doctorate in Political Science, Columbia
University, New York, 1983
Professor Emeritus at the University of Lanus,
Argentina
Full professor, Chair of Modern History I and
II, National University of La Pampa, 1971-1976
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the
treaty body concerned
Argentinean Ambassador to Bolivia
(1997-1999)
Undersecretary for Human Rights and
Women’s Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
International Trade and Worship (1989-1997)
Member of the National Programme for the
Democratization of Culture (PRONDEC)
First Vice-Chair of the Main Committee of the
Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing (1995)
Head of the Argentinean delegation to the
Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing (1995)
President of the Inter-American Commission of
Women, Organization of American States (1992-1994)
Vice-President of the Inter-American
Commission of Women, Organization of American States
(1990-1992)
Head of the Argentine delegation to the United
Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, Geneva
(1990)
Representative of Argentina to the Committee
against Torture for the presentation of the initial report
(1989)
Panellist at the International Seminars of the
Andean Committee of Jurists (Peru) on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights of Women. International Standards — Santiago de Chile,
2000, Santa Cruz, Bolivia (2001)
Co-author of the constitutional provisions
incorporating 11 human rights instruments in force in Argentina
into constitutional law
List of most recent publications
“Afganistan: From Alexander the Great to
the Taliban” (currently in press)
“Memorial of the Iron Door”,
Mediodía, Argentinean Congress
“Forced disappearance in Democracy.
Cases Guardatti, Garrido and Baigorria” Mendoza 1997-1999
(currently in press)
“Ten years of Democracy for a Hundred
More”, Eudeba, 1993. 4th edition
Children’s Rights, La Plata Statement,
1989, Debate and approval
Fumiko Saiga (Japan)
Date of
birth: 30 November
1943
Education
Department of English Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
(Graduated: March 1966)
Career
January
1980
International Convention Division, Treaties Bureau
June
1983
First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Japan to the United
Nations
February
1988
Assistant Director, United Nations Policy Division, United Nations
Affairs Bureau
March 1988 Deputy Director, Social Cooperation
Division, United Nations Affairs Bureau
July
1989
Director, Ocean Division, Economic Affairs Bureau
August
1992
Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in Denmark
March 1996 Minister, Permanent Mission of
Japan to the United Nations
May
1998
Vice Governor of Saitama Prefecture, Japan
September
2000- Consul-General of Japan
in Seattle
present
Works related to CEDAW and gender issues
January
1980-
In charge of preparation of the ratification of the Convention
on
June
1983
the Elimination of Discrimination against Women by the
Government of Japan in the International Convention Division,
Treaties Bureau
1985
Attended the World Conference to Review and Appraise the
Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women in Nairobi,
Kenya and in its preparatory meetings in the Commission on the
Status of Women (1984 and 1985)
1988-1989
As Deputy Director, had responsibility, among others, for
women’s affairs including the Commission on the Status of
Women, UNIFEM and implementation of the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in Japan
in cooperation with other Ministries
1996-1998
In charge of the Third Committee, including the Commission on the
Status of Women and the drafting of the Optional Protocol to the
Convention
1998-2000
Adviser to the Governor of Saitama Prefecture on gender issues
Adviser, Drafting Committee for the regulation on gender equality
in Saitama Prefecture
February 1999
As Vice
Governor of Saitama Prefecture, Japan, hosted
and
the Saitama International Women’s Forum, in which
February
2000
Ms. Angela King, Special Representative of the
Secretary-General, participated as a keynote speaker in
February 2000
Prepared for the adoption in March of the regulation on gender
equality in Saitama Prefecture, the first local government to enact
such a regulation in Japan
Prepared for the establishment of the Commission on Gender Equality
in Saitama Prefecture
June
2000
Participated in non-governmental organization activities during the
special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000:
gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first
century” together with a group of Saitama women
Conducted lectures at universities and communities on the United
Nations and the gender equality issue
Other international meetings and conferences
United Nations General Assembly (1983-1987,
1990-1991, 1996-1997)
Economic and Social Council
Commission on Human Rights
United Nations Environment Programme
(1983)
International Labour Organization (1988)
International Telecommunication Union
(1988)
World Health Organization (1988)
United Nations Population Fund (1988)
United Nations Conference for the adoption of
a Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances, Vienna (1998)
International Maritime Organization (1991)
Preparatory Commission for the International
Sea-Bed Authority and for the International Tribunal for the Law of
the Sea (1989-1992 in New York and Jamaica)
United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development (1992 in Rio de Janeiro)
World Summit for Social Development (1995 in
Copenhagen)
Dubravka Šimonović (Croatia)
Date/place of
birth: 11 August
1958, Zagreb, Croatia
Marital
status:
Married; two children: daughter Tena (20), son Ivan (17)
Education
March
1997
PhD in Law. Thesis: “Legal regulation on medically assisted
procreation” at the Zagreb Faculty of Law
May
1991
Master’s degree in family law. Thesis: “Legal problems
concerning artificial insemination in human procreation” at
the Zagreb Faculty of Law
December
1984
Passed the Bar Examination in Zagreb
March
1982
Graduated from the University of Zagreb (Faculty of Law)
Career
May
1998-present
Minister Plenipotentiary in the Permanent Mission of the Republic
of Croatia to the United Nations, New York
1997-1998
Deputy Consul-General of the Republic of Croatia in
New York
1994-1996
Head of the Department for Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
1993-1994
Unpaid leave to the United States (prepared PhD)
1992-1993
Adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister in the Government of the
Republic of Croatia
1988-1992
Head
of General Administrative Services of the “Vuk Vrhovec”
Institute
1982-1988
Legal representative before various courts
Activities and functions
Dr. Šimonović has been the
representative of her country to the UNIFEM Consultative Committee
since 2001.
Chairperson of the Commission on the Status of
Women (2000-2002)
Vice-Chairperson of the Steering Committee on
Bioethics (CDBI), Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2001-2003
Vice-Chair of the Preparatory Committee for
the special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women
2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first
century”, 1999-2000
Member of the National Committee on Bioethics,
2001
Member of the National Committee on the Rights
of the Child, 1996
Member of the Governmental Committee for
Equality of Women, 1997-1999
National expert for UNDP project “Women
in Development in CEE and CIS countries”, 1995
Member of the Committee for the preparation of
new legislation on medically assisted procreation, established in
1995 by the Minister of Health
Legal adviser for the Programme of Protection
and Help to Victims of Violence of the Government of the Republic
of Croatia, 1994
International conferences
1996 to
2001
Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly,
New York
8-10 October
2001
Participant at the International Conference on Human Rights and
Democratization, Dubrovnik, Croatia
28 and 29 March 2001 Member
of the delegation of experts on examination of the Croatian initial
report before the United Nations Human Rights Committee, New
York
25-27 June
2001
Special session of the General Assembly on HIV/AIDS, New York
21-24 November 2000
United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Gender and racial
discrimination, Zagreb, Croatia
5-9 June
2000
Delegate and Vice-Chairperson to the special session of the General
Assembly entitled: “Women 2000: gender equality, development
and peace for the twenty-first century”, New York
6-8 September
2000
Delegate to the Millennium Summit of the United Nations, New
York
March 2000, March
2001 As the
Chairperson of the Commission on the Status of Women, addressed the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Geneva
21-23 January
1998
Member of the delegation of experts on the examination of the
Croatian initial report before the Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women, New York
27-31 August
1996
Delegate to the World Congress against Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children, Stockholm, Sweden
10-12 June
1996
Participation on UNICEF/International Child Development Centre
seminar “Consultation on Europe’s contribution to
safeguarding children’s rights in situations of armed
conflict”, Florence
1996, 1997,
1998
Delegate to the fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth sessions
of the Commission on Human Rights, Geneva
23 and 24 January 1996 Member of the
delegation of experts on the examination of the Croatian initial
report before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the
Child, Geneva
4-15 September
1995
Delegate to the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing
12 and 13 June
1995
Delegate to the Ad Hoc Committee of Experts to exchange views on
the Fourth World Conference on Women, Strasbourg
19-8 April
1995
Delegate to the thirty-ninth session of the Commission on the
Status of Women acting as the preparatory body for the Fourth World
Conference on Women, New York
7-9 March
1995
Member of the delegation of experts on examination of the Croatian
initial report before the Committee on the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination, Geneva
9-11 February
1995
Delegate to the conference, “Equality and Democracy: Utopia
or Challenge?”, organized by the Council of Europe,
Strasbourg
17-21 October
1994
Delegate to the regional conference, “Women in a Changing
World — Call for Action from an ECE Perspective”,
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, Vienna
5-13 September
1994
Delegate to the International Conference on Population and
Development, Cairo
Scientific publications
Moral and Legal Dilemmas of a Possible Case,
Pravnik 1979 14/15, Zagreb, pp. 30‑41 (co-author I.
Šimonović)
Legal Problems of Artificial Insemination in
Human Procreation, Master’s Thesis, Faculty of Law,
University of Zagreb, 1991
Legislation on Artificial Insemination —
Basic Considerations, Zakonitost 1992, 46,3, pp. 462-474
Medical and Legal Treatment of Assisted
Procreation in the Republic of Croatia (de lege lata and de lege
ferenda), Zagreb, Zakonitost, 1993, 2/3, pp. 255-266
Social and Legal Problems of Artificial
Insemination, Medicinska naklada, Zagreb 1993, 123 pp.
Legal and Ethical Problems of New Technologies
Used for Medically Assisted Procreation, published in the book
Gynaecology and Perinatology (1995, edited by Prof. A. Kurjak)
United Nations and Human Rights, Croatia and
the United Nations, Organizator, Zagreb, 1996, 143-149
United Nations and the Status of Women,
Croatia and the United Nations, Organizator, Zagreb, 1996,
251-265
Medically Assisted Procreation: Law and
Ethics, 1997, Organizator, Zagreb, 399 pp.
Family Law Provisions on Medically Assisted
Procreation in the Republic of Croatia (de lege lata and de lege
ferenda), paper accepted for publishing in the Zakonitost
journal
Role of the United Nations in the promotion
and protection of human rights and women’s rights, 2001,
paper accepted for publishing by the Diplomatic academy of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Croatia