Theo van boven biography
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The Advent of Universal Protection of Human Rights
Overview
- Authors:
- Bertrand Ramcharan
Airlie Mount, Alyth, UK
- Includes a foreword by Theo van Boven
- Shows how protection of human rights can be enhanced in the UN
- Provides an understanding of the problems and challenges of protecting human rights
- Brings out the precedents of international protection and how they might be enhanced in the future
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This biography tells the story of Theo van Boven’s dynamic and courageous leadership to develop UN protection. Van Boven has been a life-long scholar and practitioner of human rights. He served in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, represented The Netherlands in the UN Commission on Human Rights, served as an expert in its Sub-Commission on Human Rights, and also on the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. He was the Director of the UN Human Rights secretariat from 1977 to 1982, and later served as Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, and as UN Special Rapporteur against Torture.
As Director of the UN Human Rights secretariat, Professor van Boven built up the protection capacity of the United Nations
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Theo van Boven
Dutch jurist and professor emeritus
Theodoor Cornelis (Theo) van Boven (born 26 May 1934, Voorburg) is a Dutch jurist and professor emeritus in international law.
In 1977, he was appointed director of the United Nations' Division for Human Rights, a precursor of the UN Human Rights Office.[1]
From 1986 to 1991, he was the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Reparation to Victims of Gross Violations of Human Rights and, from 2001 to 2004, Special Rapporteur on Torture. He is also a member of the International Commission of Jurists. From February 1994 to December 1994, he was the first registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
In 1985, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for "speaking out on human rights abuse without fear or favour in the international community", in 2004, the Wateler Peace Prize and in 2013, the Light of Truth Award.[2] From 1995 to 2016 he was jury member of the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award.
On 16 December 2005, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution 60/147, titled 'Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of International Human Rights Law and Serious Violations of Intern
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Interview
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