UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.

GENERAL

CEDAW/SP/1994/3/Add.2

11 January 1994

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

MEETING OF STATES PARTIES TO THE

CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION

OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION

AGAINST WOMEN

Seventh meeting

New York, 7 February 1994

Item 5 of the provisional agenda*

Election, in accordance with article 17, paragraphs 4 and 5, of the

Convention of 12 members of the Committee on the Elimination of All

Forms of Discrimination against Women, to replace those whose terms

are due to expire on 15 April 1994

Note by the Secretary-General

Addendum

1.	The Secretary-General, in compliance with article 17, paragraph 3, of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, invited the States parties to the Convention to submit their nominations by 10 November 1993, for the election of 12 members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. The 19 nominations that were received by that date were published in document CEDAW/SP/1994/3. One additional nomination was published in document CEDAW/SP/1994/3/Add.1. The Secretary-General has now received two additional nominations as follows:

Suprabha Ghimire - Nepal

Carmel Shalev - Israel

2.	Biographical data concerning the above-mentioned candidates, as furnished by their Governments, are annexed hereto.

Annex

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

Ms. Suprabha Ghimire (Nepal)

Date of Birth and Place: 7 October 1941, Kathmandu, Nepal

Nationality: Nepali

Qualification: MA in English Literature,

Tribhuvan University, Nepal (1966)

Diploma: TEFL, UWIST, Cardiff, UK (1971)

DUEEF, University of Clermont-Ferrand, France (1989)

Post: Associate Professor, Central Department of English,

Tribhuvan University, Kritipur, Nepal

Professional experience: 26 years of teaching and social works

Ex-General Secretary, Nepal Women's Association (1990-91)

Ex-President, Nepal University Teachers Association (1991-93)

Ex-Member, National Education Council, HMG, Nepal (1991-92)

Currently:

I.	Member, National Development Council, HMG, Nepal (since 1991)

II.	Chairperson, Board of Governors, Budhanilkantha School (The National School of Higher Secondary Education of International Standard)

III.	Member, Fulbright Board of Directors, USEF, Nepal (since 1991)

IV.	Member, Nepal Women's Association

V.	Member, Nepal University Teachers Association

VI.	Member, Amnesty International

Research Work:	One of the four co-workers of the UNESCO-sponsored project, "The Participation of Women in Higher Education in Nepal", submitted in 1988.

Conferences and Seminars:	Active participation in various national and international seminars and conferences on linguistics and literature; and also the Quakers International Conference held in Nepal on the "Human Factors in Development during the 70s".

Political Participation:	Active participation during the People's Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, 1990

Keen on:	Women's development and child welfare

Travel:	USA, UK, France, India, Indonesia, Thailand

Carmel Shalev - Israel

Curriculum Vitae

Current position: Senior Legislation Officer, Israel Ministry of Justice - areas of responsibility include women's rights, family law, adoption, human rights and constitutional law, health administration and medicine; coordinator of commission of inquiry into the regulation of reproductive medicine and technology.

Academic expertise: feminist legal theory; law of reproduction

Employment

1991-	Department of Legislation, Israel Ministry of Justice - see above

1988-	Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University - feminist legal theory, women in the law, law of reproduction and parenthood, legislation clinic

1988-1990	Private law practitioner, Tel Aviv - sex discrimination, equal opportunities in employment, family relations, adoption, rights of the mentally ill

1986-1987	Associate Attorney, Tyler Cooper and Alcorn, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Fall 1985	Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - coordinator, feminist legal theory workshop

March 1985	Consultant, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark - legal aspects of reproductive medicine and genetic counselling

Fall 1984	Visiting Lecturer, Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - reproduction, society and the law

1980-1982	Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem - jurisprudence, legal process, legal research

1978-1979	Clerk to Deputy Chief Justice Moshe Landau, Israel Supreme Court, Jerusalem

Education

1982-1986	Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA - LLM, 1983; JDS, 1989

1975-1982	Faculty of Law, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel - LLB, 1979; LLM, 1984

Bar Membership

1987	State of Connecticut, and USA Federal Second Circuit

1980	Israel

Public Activity

1991-	Israel Women's Network, member

1989-1990	Association for Civil Rights in Israel, national board, Tel Aviv branch secretariat

1988-1990	Lachen for the Promotion of Women's Sport, legal counsel

Publications and Papers

"Equality, Difference and Sex Discrimination", in The Landau Book (Boursi, forthcoming, 1994) (in Hebrew)

"Freedom of Cohabitation and Alternatives to Marriage", in Women in the Law (eds. Raday, Shalev and Liban, Schocken, forthcoming, 1994) (in Hebrew)

"The Law of Reproduction and the Right to be a Parent", in Women in the Law (eds. Raday, Shalev and Liban, Schoken, forthcoming, 1994) (in Hebrew)

"Israel - The President of the State", in Heads of State - A Comparative Perspective (Constitutional Centenary Foundation, Australia, 1993)

Law, Religion and Women (International Legal Conference on Women in Law, Jerusalem, 1991)

Collective Punishment in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (B'Tselem, Jerusalem, 1990)

Sanctity of Life and Human Dignity: the Mother-Fetus Relationship (Jerusalem, 1990)

The Status of Palestinian Women (West Bank Database Project, Jerusalem, 1990)

Birth Power: The Case for Surrogacy (Yale University Press, 1989) (Italian translation, Nascere per Contratto, Giuffre, 1992)

The Price of Insurgency - Human Rights Under the Intifada (West Bank Database Project, Jerusalem, 1988)

Artificial Reproduction - Report on a Consultation and Research Findings (WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, 1986), rapporteur

"A Man's Right to be Equal: The Abortion Issue", 18 Israel L Rev 391 (1984)

"Spousal Consent to Sterilization", 3 Civil Rights (1982) (in Hebrew)

"A Method of Legal Inquiry", in The Philosophy of Morris R. Cohen - A Symposium, 16 Israel L Rev 329 (1982)

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