UNITED

NATIONS

Distr.

GENERAL

CEDAW/SP/1994/3/Add.3

25 January 1994

ENGLISH

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH/FRENCH

MEETING OF STATES PARTIES TO THE

CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION

OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION

AGAINST WOMEN

Seventh meeting

7 February 1994

Item 5 of the provisional agenda*

Election, in accordance with article 17, paragraphs 4

and 5, of the Convention on the Elimination of All

Forms of Discrimination against Women, of 12 members

of the Committee on the Elimination 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 and another two nominations were published in document CEDAW/SP/1994/3/Add.2. The Secretary-General has now received four additional nominations as follows:

Slavomíra Filipová Slovakia

Lin Shangzhen China

Kissem Walla Tchangai Togo

Ludmila N. Zavadskaya Russian Federation

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

*	CEDAW/SP/1994/1.

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Annex

SLAVOMÍRA FILIPOVÁ

Personal information:

Title:	Assistant professor, MD., Ph.D.

Date of birth:	18 June 1953

Place of birth:	Bratislava (Slovakia)

Nationality:	Slovak

Present position:	Assistant professor of internal medicine

Education:

University:

1971-1977	Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava

1977	Graduation from University as paediatrician

Postgraduate training:

1978-1979	Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague

1978-1982	Academic and scientific postgraduate study (cardiovascular patho-physiology)

1983-1986	Licence and board certification in internal medicine

1986-1990	Licence and certification in clinical cardiology

1992	Postgraduate electrocardiogram seminar: arrhythmia, Vienna (Prof. Steinbach)

Academic graduation:

1983	Graduation (Ph.D.) in normal and pathological physiology

1989	Assistant professor of internal medicine

Foreign languages:	English, Russian

Employment record:

1977	Appointed junior registrar, Department of Clinical Patho-physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava

1977-1980	Junior registrar

1980-1983	Senior registrar

1984-1989	Senior registrar, Department of Internal Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava

Since 1989	Assistant professor, Department of Internal Medicine IV, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, teaching medical students (lectures and seminars in internal medicine and cardiology)

Head of students' national and international scientific activities

Head of scientific projects in clinical cardiology and non-invasive electrocardiology

Non-academic professional activities:

Since 1984	Teaching in the Postgraduate Medical School (Bratislava): education for physicians before certification in cardiology and internal medicine

Since 1990	Teaching in the Postgraduate Institute for Nurses (Bratislava): postgraduate education and training for nurses in coronary care units and intensive care units

1980-1988	Advancement of public health and social lectures and seminars for schoolgirls, adolescents and seniors

Committee appointments:

National:

1990-1993	Member of the Committee of the Slovak Society of Cardiology

Since 1993	General Secretary of the Slovak Society of Cardiology

International:	Member of the Working Group of the International Council on Electrocardiology

Professional societies:

National:

1990-1993	Member of the Committee of the Slovak Society of Cardiology

Since 1993	General Secretary of the Slovak Society of Cardiology

International:	Member of the Working Group of the International Council on Electrocardiology

Scientific publications and presentations:

Published articles (1978-1993):

Author of 95 published articles and book chapters in monographs and handbooks (53 in Czecho-Slovak and 42 in international journals and books).

Scientific presentation which she has made to national and international forums (at 60 national and 24 international meetings and congresses).

LIN SHANGZHEN

Born:	Shanghai, China, 1930

Graduated:	BA, Department of Literature, University of Shanghai, July 1951. After graduation, she was engaged in teaching for a few years and has remained active in women's issues to this day.

Since 1953, worked in the International Liaison Department of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) and has held responsible posts in the Department throughout the years. She was a member of the Executive Committee of ACWF from 1988 to 1993.

In the 1950s and 1960s, sent by ACWF to work with the secretariat of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) for different periods of time and participated in many meetings of the leading bodies of WIDF, such as its congresses, bureau and council meetings. In 1964, she attended the All-African Women's Conference, held in Monrovia.

Since the 1970s, she has participated in a number of meetings within the United Nations system, such as the Economic and Social Council (1972), the twenty-fifth (1974), twenty-eighth (1980), thirtieth (1984), thirty-third (1989) and thirty-fifth (1991) sessions of the Commission on the Status of Women, the United Nations World Conference of the International Women's Year in Mexico City (1975), the Asian-Pacific Regional Preparatory Conference for the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women (1989), the Workshop organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (1980), the Latin American regional conference of the International Federation of University Women (1981), the Asian-
Pacific Regional Preparatory Conference (1984) for the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women (1985), the World Conference on Education for All (1990), the commemorative seminar on the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1990) and the 1990 session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund.

She was a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) (1985-1988), and a council member of the China Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (1989-1991).

She has been on or head of quite a number of delegations to countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and America to study issues affecting women and children.

KISSEM WALLA TCHANGAI

Civil status:

Name and first names: Dr. Kissem WALLA, wife of TCHANGAI

Date and place of birth: 21 June 1948, Yade (Kozah prefecture)

Family status: Married with three children

Academic background:

Certificat d'étude primaire (Certificate of

primary education)	1962

Brevet élementaire du premier cycle (Elementary

certificate, first cycle)	1967

Probatoire (first part of baccalauréat) série D	1969

Baccalauréat série D (School-leaving certificate)	1970

Start of medical studies at the University of Dakar	1970

Enrolment for certificat d'étude supérieur

(certificate of higher education) in

Dermatology-Venereology, University of Marseilles	1978

Defence of thesis for Doctorat d'Etat, University

of Dakar, mention très honorable (with distinction),

félicitations du Jury (highly commended), nominated

for thesis prize	1979

Concours national de Paris (national competitive

exam) for certificat d'étude supérieur, in

Dermatology-Venereology

Passed Concours d'agrégation (competitive exam for

teachers)	1986

Professional situation and activities:

Togolese Civil Service, Ministry of Public Health	1979

Appointed Chief Physician of the

Dermatology-Venereology Service, Lomé

Appointed Assistant Chief of the

Dermatology-Venereology Clinic at the

Faculty of Medicine of the University of Benin	1980

Elected to the post of Under-Secretary-General of

the African Union against Venereal Diseases and

Treponematosis	1983

Congress of the Pan-African Women's Organization

(Algeria)	1983

Training Workshop on the methodology of health

sciences instruction, WHO, Lomé	1984

International Seminar on human fertility and

sexually transmitted diseases (STD),

Franceville, Gabon	1984

International Court on STD, WHO, Paris	1984

Training Workshop on applied research methodology

in health sciences, WHO, Lomé	1985

World Congress on Sexually Transmitted Diseases,

Paris	1986

Foreign corresponding member of the Société

de dermatologie et syphiligraphie	1986

Member of the "Médecins du Monde" association	1987

Participation in the preparation of the national

programme for AIDS control	1990

Participation in the preparation of the national

programme for STD control

Participation in the workshop/seminar on the

planning and administration of programmes for

AIDS/STD control, WHO, Yaoundé, June	1992

Participation in the first international

French-language course on the planning and

organization of STD/AIDS control in developing

countries, Dakar, September	1992

Participation in the epidemiology course for

district health personnel, WHO, Lomé,

October-November	1992

National officer for the STD/AIDS Technical

Subcommittee

Extraprofessional activities:

Member of CEDAW	1988

Vice-President of the National Women's

Union of Togo	1987-1992

Works:

Scientific works:

Publication of works on sexually transmitted diseases in Médecine d'Afrique Noire, Afrique Médicale and Société Médicale de Côte d'Ivoire

Publication of works on nutritional and other dermatoses in Médecine d'Afrique Noire, Afrique Médicale and Société Médicale de Côte d'Ivoire

Statements on AIDS and ethics at the Paris Regional AIDS Conference and at Athens (Onassis Prize)

General works:

Statement on girls' education at the National Conference of the Women's Union of Togo

Preparation and working document on "maternity-linked health problems"

A number of publications and lectures on African women

LUDMILA N. ZAVADSKAYA

Date of birth:	21 May 1949

Place of birth:	Ramenskoye City, Moscow region

Nationality:	Russian

Sex:	Female

Marital status:	Married

Employment:	Federal Assembly of Russian Federation, member of the State Duma (Lower Chamber of Parliament, 1994)

Past employment:

1992-1993	Head, Theory and Sociology of Law Department, Institute of State and Law, Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation

1974-1993	Senior Research Fellow, Theory and Sociology of Law Department, Institute of State and Law, Academy of Sciences. Principal areas of research: civil procedure, sociology of law, law enforcement and implementation, rule-of-law state, human rights

1969-1974	Analyst, All-Union Juridical Institute, Moscow

1974-1984	Adjunct Professor, All-Union Juridical Institute, Moscow

1982-1983	Adjunct Professor, Institute of International Affairs, Moscow

Education:

1979	LLD, Institute of State and Law, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow

1973	LLM, All-Union Juridical Institute

1971	JD, All-Union Juridical Institute

Affiliations:

1993-present	Presidential Commission on Family, Motherhood and Childhood Protection, expert

1992	Constitutional Assembly, participant

October 1992	Parliamentary hearings on compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation

1991-present	Union of Women of Russia, member

1991-present	European Network for Women's Studies, member

1989-present	Global Education Associates, New York, N.Y., United States of America, associate

1985-1991	Moscow Peace Committee, Board member

1984-1991	Soviet-American Relations Public Commission, Soviet Women's Committee, member

1984-1990	Soviet Association of Lawyers (SAL), member

1984-1988	Committee of Youth Organizations, consultant

1986-1988	People's Judge, Court of Kiev region, Moscow

International conferences and meetings:

1991	Participant, Soviet delegation, Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), parallel activities, Moscow

1987	Consultant, Soviet delegation, International Women's Congress, Moscow

October 1990	Panelist, International Conference on Rule-of-Law State and Economic Development, Beijing, China

1990	Participant, Soviet delegation, CSCE, parallel activities, Copenhagen, Denmark

Selected publications:

Implementation of Court decisions, Moscow, Nauka, 1982

Mechanism of law enforcement, Moscow, Nauka, 1992

Socialist legal system, vol. 2 "Functions and Development", co-author, Moscow, Nauka, 1987

Socialist Concept of Personal Rights, co-author, Moscow, Nauka, 1986

Democracy and legal status of the person in developed socialism, co-author, Moscow, Nauka, 1985

and more than 30 articles and commentaries in various Soviet and Russian professional journals.

Foreign language proficiency:

English - fair

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