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Co-chairs:
Marilou McPhedran and Professor
Anne Bayefsky.
Expert advisors to the CEDAW
Impact Study include:
Professor Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Centre
for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto Canada.
Professor Andrew Byrnes, Director of the Centre
for Comparative and Public Law, University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Jane Connors, Chief, Women's Rights Unit of
the UN Division for the Advancement of Women.
Shanthi Dairiam, Director of the International
Women's Rights Actions Watch-Asia Pacific.
Dr. Mary Maboreke, Chief, Women's Rights Unit,
Organization of African States.
Sapana Pradhan-Malla, Advocate of the Supreme Court
Bar of Nepal.
Ilana Landsberg-Lewis, Human Rights Programme Specialist,
UNIFEM.
Jessica Neuwirth, Equality Now.
Professor
Anne Bayefsky
Professor Anne Bayefsky is the co-chair of the International Advisory
Committee and a legal expert specializing in International Human Rights
Law with an emphasis on reform of the UN treaty system to achieve more
effective implementation and monitoring. Professor Bayefsky has been the
director of the York University Centre for Refugee Studies since 1996.
Professor
Andrew Byrnes
Andrew Byrnes is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law of the University
of Hong Kong and the Director of the Centre for Comparative and Public
Law. He has published extensively on human rights issues, particularly
in relation to international procedures for the enforcement of human rights,
the Hong Kong Bill of Rights, gender and human rights, and the domestic
implementation of international human rights standards. He has worked
for the Australian Attorney-General's Department in the field of human
rights, as well as for the Australian Human Rights Commission, and he
has served as a consultant to the Australian federal Sex Discrimination
Commissioner, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the United Nations on human
rights issues. He has been an active member of Hong Kong and international
human rights organizations and has represented non-governmental organizations
at meetings of a number of United Nations human rights bodies. Professor
Byrnes has published many articles on human rights including, co-authorship
with fellow International Advisory Committee colleague, Dr. Jane Connors.
Dr.
Jane Connors
Dr. Jane Connors has been the Chief of the Women's Rights Unit of the
UN Division for the Advancement of Women since 1995. Her legal academic
career in Australia and the United Kingdom has spanned 20 years, most
recently Dr.Connors was Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of London
with an emphasis on African countries. Dr. Connors has authored many texts
on international women's human rights and has co-authored with fellow
International Advisory Committee colleague, Andrew Byrnes.
Shanthi
Dairiam
Shanthi Dairiam was originally trained as an educator. She then became
involved in activism to promote women's rights through law and policy
reform and the development of ways to identify and rectify discrimination
against women. Ms. Dairiam founded the International Women's Rights Action
Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW-Asia Pacific) as an independent non-governmental
organization which is currently responsible for the collaborative programmes
with women's groups in 12 countries of Asia to facilitate the implementation
of CEDAW and other relevant UN treaties.
Dr. Mary
Maboreke
Dr. Maboreke has just been appointed as the Head of Women’s Rights
Unit of the Organization of African States, headquartered in Addis Ababa.
Dr. Maboreke was a professor of Law at the University of Zimbabwe and
has extensive involvement with NGOs and the UN system.
Sapana
Pradhan-Malla
Sapana Pradham Malla received her Bachelor of Law in 1987 from Tribhuvan
University in Kathmandu, Nepal and her Master of Law from Delhi University,
India in 1989. Since 1992 she has been a Senior Partner with Development
Law Associates located in Kathmandu with an extensive background in legal,
economic and social rights of women, including working as a local partner
to IWRAW-Asia Pacific to monitor CEDAW. Ms. Pradham-Malla has also been
a consultant to UNICEF country office in the preparation of a report on
Violence Against Women. Most recently Sapana was a consultant to the United
Nations Division for the Advancement of Women to Analyze the Impact of
the Strategies on Violence Against Women.
Ilana
Landsberg-Lewis
Ilana Landsberg-Lewis is the Human Rights Programme Specialist responsible
for CEDAW at UNIFEM. Combining her legal training with extensive work
in the non-profit sector, Ms. Landsberg-Lewis acted as a consultant to
UNICEF before being appointed to her current position at UNIFEM.
Jessica
Neuwirth
Jessica Neuwirth left her successful private practice to help found "Equality
Now" a leading NGO in the fields of international advocacy and litigation
to further the human rights of women.
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