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United Nations
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CRPD/CSP/2010/CRP.1
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Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities
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Distr.: General
19 August 2010
Original: English, French, Spanish
| Conference of States Parties to the Convention on
the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
New York, 1-3 September 2010
* CRPD/CSP/2010/1.
Item 6 (a) of the provisional agenda*
Election of the members of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities under article 34 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Note by the Secretary-General
1. Article 34 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities provides for the establishment of a Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It also provides that members of the Committee shall be elected by secret ballot from a list of persons nominated by the States parties from among their nationals at meetings of the Conference of States parties and that the initial election shall be held no later than six months after the date of entry into force of the Convention.
2. In compliance with article 34, paragraph 6, of the Convention, the Secretary-General, in a note verbale dated 3 May 2010, invited the States parties to submit their nominations for the election of 12 members of the Committee not later than 1 July 2010 The Secretary-General has prepared the following list, in alphabetical order, of all persons nominated by 1 July 2010, indicating the States parties that had nominated them. Nominations received after this date will be issued in addenda to the present document.
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Candidate
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Nominated by
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Mr. Mukhtar Bin Mohammed Bin Mussalam Al-Rawahi
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Oman
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Mr. Luis Guillermo Bulit Goni
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Argentina
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Ms. Theresia Degener
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Germany
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Mr. Carlos Rios Espinosa
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Mexico
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Mr. Gabor Gombos
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Hungary
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Ms. Fatiha Hadj Salah
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Algeria
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Mr. Jaime Eulogia Huerta Peralta
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Peru
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Mr. Hyung Shik Kim
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Republic of Korea
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Mr. Stig Langvad
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Denmark
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Mr. Lotfi Ben Lallahom
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Tunisia
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Ms. Edah Wangechi Maina.
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Kenya
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Mr. Ronald Clive Mc Callum
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Australia
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Mr. Mwanalushi Muyunda
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Zambia
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Ms. Berta Luz Pascual Melara
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El Salvador
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Ms. Silvia Judith Quan Chang
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Guatemala
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Mr. Damjan Tatic
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Serbia
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Mr. Germàn Xavier Torres Correa
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Ecuador
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3. The curricula vitae of the above candidates, as furnished by their Governments, are contained in the annex to the present document.
Annex
Curricula vitae of candidates
Mukhtar Bin Muhammed Bin Mussalam Al-Rawahi (Oman)
Name: Mukhtar bin Mohamed bin Mussalam Al Rawahi
Nationality: Omani
Date of Birth: 15.04.1952
Marital Status: Married
Qualifications: A diploma in Electronics, U.K. (1976)
Previous job: Head of the editing Department, Sultanate of Oman
Televisions (1984-2003)
Present job: Video Editor, Sultanate of Oman Television, until the present time
Other activities:
1. Deputy Vice President Rehabilitation International (RI) for Arab Region
2. Chairman for Oman Association for Disabled April 1995 – April 2008
3. The Disable Representative of the National Committee for the Welfare of the Disabled – Sultanate of Oman.
4. Committee member Gulf disability Society Feb, 1999 until present time
Work in the Field of Disability:
1. A founder member of the Handicapped children Association (1991)
2. Founder member of the Oman Association for the Disabled (1995) and Chairman of the Board of directors (1995-2008)
3. Founder member of the Gulf Disability Society (1999) and member of the Board until the present time.
4. Active in the field of disability since 1985.
What made me active is my disability as I am one of the persons with disability due to a traffic accident in 1972.
I am acquainted and well aware of the issues of disability. I participated in many international conferences, seminars and workshop, locally and internationally.
I was nominated from among 50 nominees in the world to attend Washington conference in September 1999 in the United States of America. This conference was about independent living for the disabled in the new millennium.
I participated in the Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities Second Session, 16-27th June 2003, in the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
I participated in training course Sida’s International Training Program Human Rights and Disability Sweden – Stockholm – August 27 – September 7, 2007.
I participated in the International Leadership visitor’s Program Disability Issues and Rights USA – May 13-17, 2009.
Award
Science Day awards for Social Services, Presented by the Ruler of Ajman (UAE)
1st April 2008.
Mr. Luis Guillermo Bulit Goni (Argentina)
Apellidos y nombre: BULIT GOÑI, Luis Guillermo.
Lugar y fecha de nacimiento: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 01/Julio/1955.
Idiomas de trabajo: Español / Inglés.
Cargo o función actual:
Gerente de Asuntos Jurídicos de ANSES. Vicepresidente de FIADOWN Federación Iberoamericana de Síndrome de Down. Presidente Consejo de ASDRA Asoc. S. de Down de Argentina. Miembro de la Junta Directiva de Fundación Iberoamericana Down 21 (España)
Principales actividades profesionales (sólo vinculados al tema Discapacidad):
Profesor de los cursos de posgrado en” Programa de Actualización y Profundización en Discapacidad”, “Derecho de la Salud” y en “Derecho de la Seguridad Social”, Universidad Católica Argentina. (UCA) Mar del Plata, Rosario y Buenos Aires Incluyen temas sobre Discapacidad en sus Programas. (Bs.As., Argentina).
Director del Proyecto de Investigación AR-T1044 “Análisis de las Políticas para la Inclusión de Personas con Discapacidad” Universidad de San Andrés y ASDRA, con financiamiento del Fondo de Inclusión social del BID (Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo).
Profesor visitante “Curso sobre Discapacidad, Derecho y Sociedad” en la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Puerto Rico –Río Piedras- (USA).
Jurado para el tema “Universidad y Discapacidad”, del Superior Tribunal de Justicia de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires/Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Candidato por la República Argentina para integrar el Comité de Expertos de la Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad ONU -2008
Profesor de posgrado en “Derecho de la Salud” incluye temas de Discapacidad, UCA. Buenos Aires.
Títulos académicos:
Magister en Administración y Política Públicas (Universidad de San Andres). Abogado (Universidad de Buenos Aires). Procurador (Universidad de Buenos Aires). Cursos de Especialización en Derecho Administrativo (UBA) y en Mercado de Capitales (Escuela de Abogados/Fundación B. de Boston)
Otras actividades principales en el campo relacionado con el órgano correspondiente:
Conferencias (sólo de 2007 al presente)
La inclusión de la discapacidad como disparador en empresas socialmente responsables. / Buenas Prácticas sobre Discapacidad y responsabilidad Social. Fundación Incluir.
Capacidad jurídica y discapacidad: El sistema de apoyos y toma de decisiones .La necesidad de un cambio de normas y cultura jurídica. En Primer Congreso Internacional sobre Discapacidad y Derechos Humanos. Organiza. Fundación Aequitas et.al
El movimiento asociativo iberoamericano a la luz de la CDPD. ASDRA (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Desafíos en Políticas Públicas a partir de la Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad. Honorable Senado de la Nación (Buenos Aires, Argentina
Construyendo la cultura de la capacidad desde la familia, el estado y la sociedad; Facilitador del taller Acceso a la justicia para personas con discapacidad intelectual. Foro Internacional en Capacidad Jurídica y toma de decisiones con apoyo. Inclusión Internacional Universidad de los Andes- et.-al.; Bogotá, Colombia
Abril 29: Desafíos de las Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil ante la Convención CDPD, II Congreso Iberoamericano sobre Síndrome de Down. Down España – Real Patronato. Granada, España
Derechos Humanos y discapacidad. Desafíos para la inclusión y la vida de calidad en Universidad del Salvador, Escuela de Servicio Social, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
El modelos social a partir de la Convención sobre Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad. En CARI, Consejo Argentino para las Relaciones Internacionales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Derechos Humanos, Ética y Discapacidad, /Familia y Discapacidad. En Antofagasta, Chile.
1) Políticas Sociales y discapacidad en Iberoamérica; 2) La incidencia de las OSC en las políticas públicas gubernamentales. En Primer Congreso Internacional sobre Discapacidad. Monterrey, México.
Políticas de inclusión para la discapacidad. San Juan. Puerto Rico.
Septiembre 8. Políticas Públicas, Responsabilidad Social y Discapacidad, Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
Empleo, discapacidad y Seguridad Social. Fund. Aequitas. Mar del Plata, Argentina
Responsabilidad social, educación y empleo de personas con discapacidad Facultad de Psicología y Educación, Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Publicaciones más recientes en ese campo:
Las Políticas de Inclusión de las Personas con Discapacidad en la Argentina. El desafío de hacer realidad los derechos (Libro). ASDRA / UdeSA/ BID (en prensa).
Capacidad Jurídica, familia y sociedad civil. “El modelo social, una mirada hacia adentro”. Capítulo en obra colectiva (en prensa).
“El proceso judicial de incapacidad y de inhabilitación y los derechos humanos. Deudas pendientes y necesidades urgentes”. Para Revista Jurídica El Derecho ED, (01/10/2008, Nro. 12.102).
“La discriminación, aunque se vista de justicia, discriminación queda” (sobre Coberturas en Prestaciones para personas con discapacidad). Revista Abeledo Perrot-Buenos Aires, N° 2008-10 pág. 1126 y sigs.
“El Derecho a la Salud y la discapacidad. Falta de coherencia en las políticas públicas y su marco jurídico” Revista de Derecho Laboral y Seguridad Social Noviembre de 2007, pág. 1986 Citar Lexis Nº 0003/401661 RDLSS 2007-22-1986.
“Las campanas de madera: Discapacidad, familia y sociedad” (Libro). Editorial Dunken, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 240 páginas. ISBN: 987-0219209. En conjunto con Victoria I. Massa Sojo.-
La candidatura de Bulit Goñi ha sido avalada por un importante número de ONG, entidades académicas y profesionales de Argentina, Iberoamérica y Europa, así como organismos y organizaciones internacionales.
El Dr. Bulit Goñi fue seleccionado de entre un grupo de postulantes propuestos por la sociedad civil, además de sus calificaciones, por ser un activista vinculado personal y académicamente con la discapacidad intelectual
Theresia Degener (Germany)
Date and place of birth: 10 April 1961 , Altenberge , Germany
Status: married to Robert Kissel, two sons (1997 & 2002)
Working languages: German, English, French, (Dutch)
Current position/function:
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Professor of Law and Disability Studies, Protestant University of Applied Studies, Bochum Germany
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Extraordinary Professor of Law at the University of the Western Cape, Belleville/ Cape Town, South Africa
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Co – Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, University of the Western Cape Belleville/ Cape Town, South Africa
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Associated Colleague of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability
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Board Member of the German Institute for Human Rights
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Member of the German Network Article 3, Human Rights and Equalization of Opportunities for Disabled
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Member of the German Association of Women with Disabilities
Main professional activities:
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1987 – 1994 Legal Expert to Disabled Peoples’ International (DPI) and Representative of DPI at the UN Commission on Human Rights 1995 – 1997 Legal Expert to the European Disability Forum
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2000 – 2001 Legal Expert to the German Parliament as member of the Inquiry Commission on Law and Ethics of Modern Medicine
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2001 Legal Expert to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (together with Gerard Quinn) as co-author of the background study to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
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2002 – 2004 Legal Expert to the European Commission as member of the EU Group of Experts on Combating Discrimination on Grounds of Disability
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2002 – 2006 Legal Expert to the German Government and member of the Government Delegation to the UN Ad Hoc Committee on the CRPD. 2004 Member of it’s working group which elaborated the first draft.
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Member of the Teaching Faculty of the first European Disability Discrimination Summer School, 2006, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
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2007 – 2008 Legal Expert to the GTZ (Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit), one of the leading German development organizations
Educational background:
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1993 Second State Examination in Law, State of Hesse , Germany
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1992 Legal Dissertation at Johann –Wolfgang- Goethe University of Frankfurt, Faculty of Law, Germany
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1990 Master of Laws, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, USA
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1986 First State Examination in Law, Johann –Wolfgang- Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany
Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned:
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Teaching and training : Extensive experience in teaching and training in and outside universities in Germany, Finland, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, The Netherlands, USA on international human rights, gender issues (i.e. sexual violence), disability issues and bioethics
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Consulting/ advisory service: Considerable experience as legal consultant /expert to the United Nations, European Union, German Government and German Legislator, and to various (international) non-governmental organizations
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Research & Writing: 20 years of experience in research and writing with more than 60 publications
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Management and leadership: Extensive experience in management and leadership as project director (1994/95) chair of research project ( 2003-2006), staff supervisor ( since 1998) and conference organizer (1981 / 1994 / 2000/ 2005)
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Speaker: Comprehensive experience as keynote speaker at more than 90 conferences in over 20 different countries: Austria, Australia, Canada, China, Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sweden, UK, and USA
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International experience: Over four years experience of living and working abroad in the USA (1986/87 and 1999/2000) in French-speaking Switzerland (1991) in the Netherlands (1994/95) and in South Africa (2004/2005)
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Personal experience with disability: armless since birth
Awards:
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2005 Federal Cross of Merit with Ribbon of Germany
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2003 Second Prize of “Courage 2003”, Readers survey of PARTIZIP and KOBINET (two disability magazines) on efforts for equal rights for disabled persons.
List of most recent publications in the field (selection):
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Degener, Th. (2001) Disabled Women and International Human Rights. In: Askin, Kelly D./ Koenig, Dorean M.: Women and International Human Rights Law. Vol.3, Ardsley. N.Y.: Transnational, p. 267 – 293
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Quinn, Gerard /Degener, Th. (2002) Human rights and disability: The current use and future potential of United Nations human rights instruments in the context of disability, OHCHR, United Nations, New York and Geneva (U.N. Sales No: E.02.XIV.6)
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Degener Th. (2005) Disability Discrimination Law: A Global Comparative Approach. In: Lawson, Anna / Gooding, Caroline (eds.) Disability Rights in Europe: from Theory to Practice, Oxford and Portland: Hart, S. 87 – 106
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Degener, Th (2006) The Definition of Disability in (German and) International Discrimination Law. In: Disability Studies Quaterly, Vol 26 No 2 Spring 2006, (online)
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Degener, Th. (2006) Menschenrechtsschutz für behinderte Menschen. Vom Entstehen einer neuen Menschenrechtskonvention der Vereinten Nationen. in: Vereinte Nationen, 3/06 s. 104-110.
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Degener Theresia (2008) „Zur Erforderlichkeit der Ausdifferenzierung des Diskriminierungsverbots“ in Klein, Eckart, Menke, Christoph (Hrsg.) Universalität – Schutzmechanismen – Diskriminierungsverbote, Menschenrechtszentrums der Universität Potsdam Band 30, Berlin: BWW, S. 373 – 395
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Jahn, Christian / Degener, Theresia (2008) Umsetzung der VN –Konvention über die Rechte von Menschen mit Behinderungen im Rahmen der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Eine Zusammenfassung der Studie. GTZ, Systeme der Sozialen Sicherheit, im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, Eschborn, Oktober 2008.
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Degener, Th. (2009) Welche legislativen Herausforderungen bestehen in Bezug auf die nationale Implementierung der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention in Bund und Ländern? In: Behindertenrecht 02/2009 S. 34-52
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Degener, Theresia (2009) Die UN – Behindertenrechtskonvention als Inklusionsmotor, in: Recht der Jugend und des Bildungswesens 2/2009 S. 200 – 219.
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Degener, Theresia (2009) Die neue UN- Behindertenrechtskonvention aus der Perspektive der Disability Studies. In: Behindertenpädagogik 3/2009, S. 263 – 283.
Carlos Ríos Espinosa (México)
Datos biográficos de los candidatos a puestos en órganos creados en virtud de tratados
Apellidos y nombre :Carlos Ríos Espinosa
Lugar y fecha de nacimiento : México, Distrito Federal
Idiomas de trabajo : Español, Inglés
Cargo o función actual: Consejero de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal y Coordinador de Derechos Humanos y Justicia Penal.
Principales actividades profesionales: (10 líneas máximo)
Coordinación de los trabajos de redacción de los Códigos Procesales en materia penal en diversos estados de México. Elaboración e instrumentación de programas de capacitación en derechos humanos para organizaciones de la sociedad civil y para funcionarios encargados de hacer cumplir la ley. Participación en el Consejo de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal estableciendo lineamientos generales de actuación del ombudsman del Distrito Federal y haciendo revisiones de las recomendaciones no vinculatorias que emite el organismo.
Títulos académicos: (5 líneas máximo)
Licenciado en Derecho (Universidad Iberoamericana)
Licenciado en Filosofía (Universidad La Salle)
Maestro en Sistemas Penales Comparados (Universidad de Barcelona)
Candidato al Doctorado en Filosofía (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Otras actividades principales en el campo relacionado con el órgano correspondiente: (10 líneas máximo)
Análisis de programas y legislación sobre discapacidad actualmente en vigor en México. Impartición de talleres y conferencias a organizaciones de la sociedad civil sobre el tema de discapacidad y derechos humanos. Participación en foros de discusión sobre los alcances de la nueva Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad.
Propuesta de lineamientos y políticas generales en materia de derechos humanos en el seno del Consejo de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal.
Publicaciones más recientes en ese campo: (5 líneas máximo)
Programa Nacional para el Desarrollo de las Personas con Discapacidad: correspondencia entre diagnóstico y acciones. En “DFensor”, Revista de Difusión de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal, septiembre de 2009.
Todos somos incapaces. Reflexiones sobre el artículo 12 de la Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad. En “DFensor”, Revista de Difusión de la Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal, noviembre de 2007.
Gábor Gombos (Hungary)
Personal data
Name and first name: Gábor Gombos
Date and place of birth: 08.08.1961., Pécs, Hungary
Address: H-1088 Budapest, Rákóczi út 27/B., Hungary
E-mail: ggombos@mdac.info
Mobile: (+36 30) 288 1819
Working languages English (fluent), Hungarian (fluent), Russian (good)
Current position/function
2009- Co-Chair, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, Odense, Denmark
2009- Editor of “Fogyatékosság és Társadalom” (Disability and Society), the first Hungarian periodical on Disability Studies
2006- Senior Advocacy Officer, Mental Disability Advocacy Center, Budapest
2004-2006 Advocacy Coordinator, Mental Disability Advocacy Center, Budapest
2004- Deputy Chair, European Network of (ex-)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, Berlin
Main professional activities
2009-2010 Facilitator of the Hungarian Disability Caucus Alternative Country Report on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Budapest
2008 Six months program in India to catalyse disability self-advocacy and promote the implementation of CRPD in India
2007-2009 Civil society expert negotiator at the Ministry of Justice consultations on the new Civil Code of Hungary, Budapest
2006-2009 Co-facilitator of a civil society coalition working on the new legal capacity legislation and implementation of CRPD article 12, Budapest
2004-2005 Temporary advisor, WHO European Regional Office, participation in drafting the WHO European Ministerial Declaration and Action Plan on Mental Health, Copenhagen
2004 Member of the drafting group of the Ministerial Decree on the prohibition of the use of caged beds in psychiatric facilities
2003-2006 Representative of the International Disability Caucus at the UN Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
2000-2006 Member of the Human Rights Standing Committee of the European Disability Forum, Brussels
2000-2003 Member of a fact finding mission by the Mental Disability Rights International (Washington DC) in Kosovo
Educational background
1996 Accredited course on dyscalculia at the Eötvös Loránd University, Bárczi Gusztáv College on Special Education, Budapest
1986 MSc in physics, Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Sciences, Budapest
Other main activities
2010 Research on institutionalization/deinstitutionalization of persons with disabilities in Hungary
2009 Co-organization of the World Congress of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (member of the International Disability Alliance), Kampala, Uganda
2009- Member of the Board of Directors of the Hungarian Soteria Foundation (for persons with psychosocial disability), Budapest
2008- Research on the negotiation history of the CRPD
2005-2007 Research on the human rights of children and adolescents in special children homes in Hungary
2003-2005 Guest lecturer at the Central European University (Course on mental disability law and advocacy)
2001-2003 Research on the human rights in child mental health services in Hungary
2001- Fellow of the Ashoka Innovators for the Public
2000- One of the human rights defenders in the human rights educational and awareness raising project “Speak Truth to Power”
1999-2001 Research on the human rights in long term mental health social care institutions in Hungary
List of recent publications
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- Catalysing Self-Advocacy: an Experiment in India, with Amita Dhanda, Bapu Trust, Pune, India, 2009
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- Human rights in special homes for children with psychiatric disabilities, co-author, Hungarian Mental Health Interest Forum, 2007
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- Human Rights in child mental health, editor and main author, Hungarian Mental Health Interest Forum, 2003 (also published in the periodical Family, Child, Youth 2003/6)
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- Not on the Agenda: Human Rights of People with Mental Disabilities in Kosovo, Mental Disability Rights International, Washington DC, 2003
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- Think Globally, Act Locally: Making and Implementing the Disability Rights Convention, with Amita Dhanda, accepted book proposal, Oxford University Press
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