27th Meeting of States parties (New York, 22 June 2017): Election of the members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to replace those whose terms are due to expire on 19 January 2018
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is composed of 18 independent experts, who are persons of high moral character and recognized competence in the field of human rights.
Members are elected for a term of four years by States parties from among their nationals, consideration being given to equitable geographical distribution and to representation of the different forms of civilization as well as of the principal legal systems, in accordance with
article 8 of the Convention. Members serve in their personal capacity and may be re-elected if re-nominated.
The twenty-seventh meeting of States parties will take place in New York (Conference room no.03) on 22 June 2017 with the aim of electing nine members, representing half of the membership of the Committee, in view of the expiration of the term of office of nine members on
19 January 2018. States parties to the Convention were invited to nominate their candidates by
6 April 2017.
The nominations and biographical data in accordance to the form indicated below (Annex II) should be submitted to the CERD Secretariat, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Office at Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland and in electronic version (word format) to
cerd@ohchr.org and copy to
ghabtom@ohchr.org.
General Information
Article 8 |
EFS |
Note verbale from the Secretary-General to the State parties of International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination |
EFS |
Second Note verbale from the Secretary-General to the State parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination requesting credentials of their representatives |
EFS |
| List of members of the Committee whose term expires on 19 January 2018 (Annex I) |
EFS |
Biographical data form of candidates to Human Rights Treaty Bodies (Annex II) |
EFS |
Strengthening and enhancing the effective functioning of the human rights treaty body system (A/RES/68/268) |
ACEFRS |
Documentation
Provisional Agenda | CERD/SP/79 |
A C E F R S |
List of candidates | CERD/SP/80 |
A C E F R S |
List of candidates (Addendum) | CERD/SP/80/Add.1 |
A C E F R S |
Rules of procedures for the elections of CERD experts | CERD/SP/2/Rev.1 |
E F R S |
List of candidates and their CVs as submitted by the State parties
Names |
Nominated by the Country |
Submission date |
Ms. Rita IZSÁK-NDIAYE Elected
(E) | Hungary | 20 December 2016 |
Mr. Gün KUT Re-Elected
(E) | Turkey | 16 January 2017 |
Mr. Marc BOSSUYT Re-Elected
E |
F | Belgium | 24 January 2017 |
Ms. Keiko KO Elected
(E) | Japan | 3 February 2017 |
Mr. Abdi Ismaël HERSI
(F) | Djibouti | 23 February 2017 |
Ms. Chinsung CHUNG Elected
(E) | Republic of Korea | 28 February 2017 |
| Mr. Noureddine AMIR (E | F) Re-Elected | Algeria | 3 March 2017 |
Mr. Silvio José ALBUQUERQUE E SILVA
Elected
(E) | Brazil | 15 March 2017 |
Mr. Mohammed AL-OBAIDI
(E) | Iraq | 15 March 2017 |
Mr. Yeung Kam John YEUNG SIK YUEN Re-Elected
(E |
F) | Mauritius | 27 March 2017 |
Mr. Bakari SIDIKI DIABY
Elected
(F)
| Côte d’Ivoire | 29 March 2017 |
Mr. Kokou Mawuena Ika Kana EWOMSAN
(F)
Withdrawn
| Togo | 6 April 2017 |
Mr. Ricardo ULCUANGO FARINANGO
(S)
| Ecuador | 6 April 2017 |
Mr. Johannes Nicolaas HORN (E)
| Namibia | 6 April 2017 |
Mr. Léonard NSONDE (F)
| Republic of Congo | 7 April 2017 |
Mr. Driss BELMAHI (F)
| Morocco | 12 April 2017 |
