When Sub-Commission members are elected by the Commission on Human Rights, their resumes are published in a series of background documents to the Commission. In 2004, these documents were numbered E/CN.4/2004/82, Add.1 and Add.2. The following brief biographies were taken from the resumes issued in 2002 and 2004 as part of the election process. There may have been changes since the resumes were originally published, but this supplemental information is not available to us. If you see any errors, please help us correct them by letting us know.
Last revised: 24 July 2004
Re-elected in 2004. Doctor of law and former law professor, Havana University. A member of the Sub-Commission since 1984, including Chairman of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations since 2000. He has represented the Government of Cuba in many international conferences and meetings, including the Commission on Human Rights, the Third Committee to the General Assembly, and the Security Council. He has authored numerous working papers and studies for the Sub-Commission and Commission, including his working paper this session on conflict resolution to the Working Group on Indigenous Populations.
Elected to his first term in 2004. Graduate of University of Iceland Law School, with advanced degrees from Harvard Law School, New York Unversity School of Law, and a fellowship from the Max Planck Institute for Public Comparative Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Currently he is director and professor, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and Law Faculty, Lund University, Sweden. He served for 10 years with the United Nations Centre for Human Rights, Geneva, including as Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary General Ibrahima Fall, 1994-95.
Was re-elected in 2002. He has served on the Sub-Commission for several terms. He has a degree in philosophy, and is professsor in anthropology and social sciences. Since 1997 he has been Rector of the Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano con sede en Santiago de Chile. He has authored several papers and studies in the Sub-Commission, including the study which launched the Social Forum.
Elected to his first term in 2004. He has a law degree from Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, and a Ph.D in Political Sciences from Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. He is currently Associate Professor of Law, Institute of Political Sciences, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. Since 1998 he has been a member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Council of Europe, and has served as special rapporteur to the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Sudan. He has authored two books in Hungarian, one on the free choice of identity and the other an introduction to the study of international political relations.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2004. Was previously a member of the Sub-Commission in 1981-85 and 1992-99. Doctor of Law from Ghent State University with advanced degrees or certificates from Bologna Centre of the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University, the International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva. He has authored numerous Sub-Commission papers and studies, including his three year study on affirmative action concluded in 2002. He has also served on the Belgian Delegation to the Commission on Human Rights, and was elected Vice Chair in 1986 and Chair of the Commission in 1989.
Was first elected to the Sub-Commission in 2002. Has degrees from Foreign Affairs College and Hefei Industry University. Has served in many posts for the Chinese Government, including most recently Ambassador to Indonesia, but also UN Ambassador in Vienna, 1990-95, including to the UN Industrial Development Organization, and the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2004. Has attended and participated in many sessions of the Sub-Commission and Commission in the past. Has served in many faculty and professional posts, including Chef de cabinet du Ministre de l'enseignement superiur, de la recherche scientifique et de la technologies depius le 17 decembere 1999 and Enseignement a la Faculte de droit de Tunis du droit de la procedure civile et commerciale aux etudiants du Master de droit prive, et des droits de l'homme aux etudiants du Master de sciences criminelles, 2003.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2004. Professor, Department of Sociology, Seoul National University, with visiting professorships at the University of Tokyo, and the Duksung Women's University, Seoul, and visiting scholar programs at Harvard University and the University of Bristol. She has served as an alternate member to the Sub-Commission since 2001 and has written extensively on sexual slavery issues in war time and women's rights issues.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2002. Before that he was an alternate member of the Sub-Commission since 1993. Professeur de droit public a l'Universite Pantheon-Assas Paris II and Directeur du Diplome d'etudes superiueres specialsees (DESS) droits de l'homme et droit humanitaire, University Pantheon-Assas Paris II. He is the author of several papers and studies before this year's Sub-Commission, including on universal ratification of treaties, military tribunals and non-discrimination under article 2 of the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2002. Law degree and complementary degree in Political and Economic Sciences at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Professor of Law, Eduardo Mondlane University. Has served in many posts for the Government of Mozambique including Minister of Justice during the transitional Government to independence, member of the national committee in charge of drafting the first Constitution, Minister of Finance, Acting Minister of Planning, and Ambassador to Sweden.
Re-elected to the Sub-Commission in 2002. Educational degrees from Dakar, Caen, Strasbourg and Paris. Has held multiple judicial posts in the courts of Senegal, including President de la Chambre a la Cour d'appel. Has authored many working papers and studies for the Sub-Commission, including his study this year of access to drinking water and his working paper on debt. He is also chairman of the Working Group to examine the working methods and activities of transnational corporations.
Re-elected in 2002. Professor, Department of law and Human Rights, University of Essex. Graduate, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Is also active in advisory and representational work for applicants under the European Convention on Human Rights, with several cases currently before the Commission and Court. She has authored several working papers to the Sub-Commission including on the accountability of UN military personnel, human rights treaty reservations, and including a paper this year on prosecution of sex crimes.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2002. Before that he had been an alternate to the Sub-Commission since 1998. Professor of International Law, People's Friendship University, Moscow. Law degrees from Moscow State University, the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a comparative law diploma from Strasbourg University. President, Russian Fund for Support of Human Rights and Humanitarian Programmes.
Elected in 2002. Prior to that she was an alternate member to the Sub-Commission. Professor of International Law and International Organization, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Director of the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations of Thessaloniki. She is also a member of the Greek National Commission for Human Rights. She is the author of the Sub-Commission's study on human rights and terrorism.
Re-elected in 2004. Professor of Public International Law, University of Bucharest. Law degrees from the University of Bucharest, University Aix-Marseille III, School of Law, and University Paris XI. She was President of the Sub-Commission in 2000, and special rapporteur to the Commission on Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is currently President of the Working Group on Administration of Justice. She has authored the current study on human rights and bioethics before the Sub-Commission.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2002. A consultant in training, criminal and social justice issues and currently a consultant on human rights to the Ministry of National Security and Justice. She has degrees and/or certificates from the University of the West Indies, the Strasbourg International Centre for University Human Rights Teaching, the University of Warwick and the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec. She is active in many different human rights issues, including capital punishment, abuse in prisons, refugees, and anti-apartheid. She is the author of two papers before the Sub-Commission this session, on development and women in prison.
Re-elected in 2002. Professor of Political Science, University of Sao Paulo. Law degree, Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro. Visiting professorships, Brown University, Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame. Has served on numerous UN and government posts, including Special Counsel to the Governor of Sao Paulo State, Rapporteur to the Brazilian National Human Rights Plan, Rapporteur to the Sao Paulo State Human Rights Plan, Special Rapporteurs to the UN Commission on Human Rights on Myanmar and Burundi, and member of the UN Commission of Inquiry in Togo. He was chair of the Sub-Commission in 2002. He is the author of the present study before the Sub-Commission on housing and property restitution in the context of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2002. She has held several judicial posts in the court system of Madagascar, including magistrate, Conseiller a la Cour d'appel d'Antananarivo, Juge pres le Tribunal de premiere instance d'Antananarivo, Juge des enfants a Antananarivo, and President de la Chambre correctdionnelle (Flagrants delits). She is the author of an expanded working paper before the Sub-Commission this year on the difficulties of establishing guilt and/or responsibilities with regard to crimes of sexual violence.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2004. Law partner, private practice in Washington D.C. and Visiting Fellow at the Nixon Center. A law degree from Columbia University, Masters degree in Soviet Affairs from Georgetown University, and degree in International Affairs from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He has spoken and written extensively on various international law topics including the international law of armed conflict, including jus in bello, treatment of unlawful combatants and jus ad bellum-related matters.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2004. Ambassador to the Republic of Portugal. He has held numerous other government positions including Director of Legal Departmente nd Multilateral Legal Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Permanent Representative at the Permission Mission in Geneva, and also served in the Egyptian embassies in New Delhi and Paris. On the Commission of Human Rights, he has coordinated numerous working groups and drafting committees between 1997 and 2001. He was a member of the Expert Group for the elaboration of the statute of the International Criminal Court. He has lectured and written on human rights subjects, including war crimes, the right to development, integration of human rights norms into the Egyptian legal system, and Islamic perspectives on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2002. Foreign Minister since November 1999. He was ambassador to Austria, Hungary, Permanent Representative to the IAEA and UNIDO, India, and the USSR. He also had diplomatic assignments in Saudi Arabia, the Sudan and the United States. He graduated from Forman Christian College, Lahore, and has a Masters degree from the Punjab University and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Re-elected to the Sub-Commission in 2002 after being first elected in 1998. Attorney-General for India in the prior India administration. Special Rapporteur to the Commission on Human Rights, on Nigeria, Personal Envoy of the High Commissioner for East Timor. Appointed as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague for 6 years in 2000. He has written scholarly articles on the law of press censorship in India, freedom of expression, fundamental rights in the public law of India, and independence of the judiciary.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2004. Director, del Departmento de Desarrollo Social y Humanitario and Presidente Suplente de la Comision Nacional Permanent para la aplication del Derecho International Humanitario. He was an election observer in South Africa, Mozambique and East Timor in 1994. He has also participated in other international conferences and expert groups on human rights issues, including in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, North America and Belgium.
Elected to the Sub-Commission in 2004. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Degrees from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. Has served in numerous diplomatic and international posts including Under Secretary for Administation and Finance, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, High Comissioner of Nigeria to the Republic of Kenya with concurrent accreditation to Seychelles, member of the Nigerian Delegation to the Third International Steering Committee on the Economic Advancement of Rural Women, Kuala Lumpur, Nigerian Relief Mission to Burundi, ambassador to Ireland, with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Iceland, and Member of the delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
Re-elected to the Sub-Commission in 2004. She has been a member of the Sub-Commission from 1973 to 1978 and from 1993 to the present. She was the President of the Sub-Commission in 2003. In 1966 she was President of the Third Committee to the General Assembly during the momentous proceedings in the Committee when the International Covenants were adopted by the Third Committee and eventually adopted by the UN General Assembly. She has served extensively in various UN human rights posts and is the special rapporteur to the Sub-Commission on the study of traditional practices affecting the health of women and the girl child, and has also served as the chair of the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery for much of its existence.
Re-elected in 2004. Professor of International Law, Chuo University. He is also special adviser to the Rector, United Nations University, a member of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, and a Commissioner and Exectuvie Committee Member of the International Commission of Jurists. He has degrees from the International Christian University, Tokyo, and the University of Tokyo. He was first elected to the Sub-Commission as a member in 2000, but before that served as an alternate since 1988. He has also served as special rapporteur to the Commission on Human Rights on Myanmar and has championed the cause of human rights education both on the Sub-Commission and other bodies. He is the co-author of a working paper this session, with Mr. Eide, on discrimination based on caste and descent.