UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.

GENERAL

CCPR/SP/43/Add.7

29 August 1994

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

MEETING OF STATES PARTIES

Fourteenth meeting

New York, 8 September 1994

ELECTION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLES 28 TO 32 OF THE

INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS,

OF NINE MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO

REPLACE THOSE WHOSE TERMS ARE DUE TO EXPIRE ON

31 DECEMBER 1994

Note by the Secretary-General

Addendum

The present document contains a nomination for election to the Human Rights Committee received after the submission of the list of candidates by the Secretary-General on 24 June 1994 (CCPR/SP/43). Biographical data of the person nominated, as furnished by the State party concerned, are contained in the annex to the present document.

Name of candidate Nominated by

Mr. Louis René Kêké Benin

94-34861 (E) 060994 060994	/...

Annex

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

Mr. Louis René KEKE (Benin)

Surname:	Kêké

Names:	Louis René

Date and place of birth:	Adjarra, Porto-Novo, 18 April 1949

Family status:	Married, five children

Education

Primary:

Catholic Mission, 1956-1963

Awarded certificate of primary studies

Secondary:

Secondary course, Mgr. Steinmetz, Bohicon, 1964-1971

Secondary course, Père Aupiais, Cotonou, 1971-1972

Awarded the brevet d'études du premier cycle, successfully

completed the examen probatoire d'entrée dans les classes

terminales; awarded baccalaureate diploma.

Higher education:

Faculty of Law and Economics, Dakar, Senegal

Awarded the Diplôme d'études universitaires générales and the

Licence ès sciences juridiques droit privé (old system)

Professional training:

Centre de formation administrative et de perfectionnement (CEFAP)

15 June-30 October 1982

Awarded the diplôme professionnelle de magistrat major with	the fourth group of senior civil servants to be trained at	CEFAP

Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature de la République Française

Awarded the certificat de perfectionnement

Current position: Technical Adviser to the Minister of	Justice and Legislation

Former positions: Government Procurator, Lokossa Court of First Instance

1 April 1984-3 February 1988

Deputy Procurator-General, Cotonou Court of Appeal

February 1988

Counsellor, Provincial People's Court (Court of Appeal)

3 December 1988-August 1990

Head of mission, Office of the Minister of Justice and

Legislation, from 27 August 1990

Experience in the field of human rights

Training and seminars:

International training course on the promotion and protection of human rights, Ecole Internationale de Bordeaux, France, 29 June-10 July 1992. A certificate was awarded upon completion of the course.

Study tour and training course on the judicial system and constitutional rights (human rights) in the United States of America, February-March 1993

Meetings and conferences:

United Nations African workshop on international human rights standards and the administration of justice, Cairo, 8-12 July 1991

Arab-African seminar on criminal justice and penal reform, sponsored by the Arab Institute for Human Rights and Penal Reform International with the Vienna International Centre (United Nations), Tunis, 29 November-December 1991

Representative of the President of the Republic of Benin, President of the Economic Community of West African States, at the West African subregional workshop on human rights, held at Lomé, 15-17 October 1992, in preparation for the Regional Meeting for Africa of the World Conference on Human Rights

Regional Meeting for Africa of the World Conference on Human Rights, Tunis, 2-6 November 1992

World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna, 14-25 June 1993

Articles

"Les mesures d'ordre législatif ou autres prises par le Bénin en vue de donner effet aux droits et libertés reconnus et garantis dans la Charte africaine des droits de l'homme et des peuples" (report submitted by Benin in 1992 to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights)

"Les textes, les voies et les moyens de promotion des droits de l'homme au Bénin"

"La réformation du traitement pénal et pénitentiaire pour une meilleure réinsertion"

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