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From: Ellen Walker
To: I_D_A ; IDA_CRPD_Forum
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:56 AM
Subject: [IDA_CRPD_Forum] Elections of the CRPD Committee- 3rd Conference of States Parties
Dear all,
Please find below & attached information about the elections for twelve CRPD Committee members that took place at the 3rd Conference of States Parties at the UN in New York today.
Best regards,
Ellen Walker
Human Rights Officer, Intergovernmental Processes
International Disability Alliance Secretariat
INTERNATIONAL DISABILITY ALLIANCE
Member organizations:
Disabled Peoples' International, Down Syndrome International,
International Federation of Hard of Hearing People, Inclusion International, Rehabilitation International, World Blind Union,
World Federation of the Deaf, World Federation of the DeafBlind,
World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry, Arab Organization of Disabled People, European Disability Forum, Pacific Disability Forum,
Red Latinoamericana de Organizaciones No Gubernamentales
1 September 2010
Press release
Election of Twelve Committee Members of CRPD Committee at 3rd Conference of States Parties, 1 September 2010
United Nations, NY - The States Parties to the CRPD opened the Third Conference of States Parties (COP) by electing twelve CRPD Committee members today. Each candidate had to be presented by a country that is a State Party to the Convention. The CRPD Committee is now expanding from twelve to eighteen members in accordance with the Convention, which says that after sixty ratifications additional to the first twenty, the CRPD Committee will expand from twelve to eighteen members.
The elections were conducted by secret ballot. In the first round of voting, only one candidate got the required absolute majority: the current Chair of the CRPD Committee, Mr. Ron McCallum (Australia) (re-elected for a four-year term). Next elected were Ms. Edah Wangechi Maina (Kenya), Ms. Theresia Degener (Germany), Mr. Hyng Shik Kim (Republic of Korea), Mr. Carlos Rios Espinosa (Mexico), and Mr. Lotfi Ben Lallahom (Tunisia), who will all serve four-year terms. Mr. McCallum, Ms. Maina and Mr. Lallahom were existing members who were re-elected. An additional six members were elected for the new seats resulting from the expansion: Mr. Gabor Gombos (Hungary), Mr. Damjan Tatic (Serbia), Mr. Stig Langvad (Denmark), Ms. Silvia Judith Quang Chang (Guatemala), Ms. Fatiha Hadj Salah (Algeria), and Mr. German Xavier Torres Correa (Ecuador). Of the latter six, the experts from Guatemala, Hungary, and Algeria will serve two-year terms (drawn by lot) while the rest will serve four-year terms.
The full Committee of eighteen members also includes the current members, Ms. Amna Ali Al Suweidi (Qatar), Mr. Mohammed Al-Tarawneh (Jordan), Mr. Monsur Ahmed Choudhuri (Bangladesh), Ms. María Soledad Cisternas Reyes (Chile), Ms. Ana Peláez Narváez (Spain), and Ms. Jia Yang (China), all of whose terms expire in 2012. In 2012, there will be nine open Committee member seats.
For more information, contact the IDA Secretariat at
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