Representante Docente

Tanzania/07 de Noviembre de 2016/Allafrica

Resumen: El profesor Chris Maina Peter, fue electo como miembro de la Comisión de Derecho Internacional de las Naciones Unidas (CIT) por la Asamblea General de la ONU.

Professor Chris Maina Peter, was on Thursday voted member of the United Nations’ International Law Commission (ILC) by the UN General Assembly.

Prof Maina, who is currently a Professor of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), was among 13 candidates from Africa who had vied for a seat in the UN’s legal body.

The newly elected members will serve a five-year term of office with the Geneva-based body beginning January 2017. The members have been elected from five geographical groupings of Africa (eight members), Asia-Pacific (seven members), Eastern Europe (four members), Latin America and Caribbean (seven members) and Western European states with eight members.

Prof Maina was born on April 14, 1954 and holds a PhD in Law from the University of Konstanz in Germany. He once served as a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of the Racial Discrimination (CERD), United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland. He has also published widely in the area of human rights, humanitarian law, public international law and good governance.

Other members from African countries included Ahmed Laraba (Algeria), TacoubaCissé (Ivory Coast), Dire D. Tladi (South Africa), Hussein A. Hassouna (Egypt), Amos Wako (Kenya), Charles C. Jalloh (Sierra Leone) and Hassan Ouazzani Chahdi (Morocco).