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SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE ON
VIOLENCE
AGAINST CHILDREN - MARTA SANTOS PAIS OF PORTUGAL
United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon has appointed Marta Santos Pais of Portugal as his Special
Representative on Violence against Children at the level of Assistant
Secretary-General.
The appointment was made following
the recommendation included in the Secretary-General’s Study on Violence
against Children. The General Assembly, at its sixty-second session,
adopted resolution 62/141 requesting the Secretary-General to appoint, for a
period of three years, a Special Representative of the Secretary-General on
Violence against Children.
The Office of the Special
Representative will be in
Ms. Santos Pais brings to the job
her tremendous passion, her firm commitment to the rights of the child, more
than 25 years experience on human rights issues and engagement in
intergovernmental processes.
Currently Director of the UNICEF
Innocenti Research Centre, a post she has held since 2001, she joined UNICEF in
1997 as Director of Evaluation, Policy and Planning and served as Co-Chair of
the United Nations Development Group Working Group on Human Rights.
From 1991 to 1997, Ms. Santos
Pais was the Rapporteur of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the
Child, during which time, she also served as Vice-Chair of the Coordinating
Committee on Childhood Policies of the Council of Europe.
She held a number of advisory
positions on human rights and legal issues in
Ms. Santos Pais holds a law degree
from the
Born in
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