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Heisoo Shin is NOT a candidate for
the CEDAW Committee as inadvertently listed on the OHCHR website, and UN
correction has been made. Heisoo
Shin IS a Candidate for election to the UN Committee on Economic, Social &
Cultural Rights. If elected assures all that "gender mainstreaming will be
an important part of her work on the Committee."
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From IWRAW AP
CALL FOR SUPPORT OF MS. HEISOO SHIN,
REPUBLIC OF KOREA, IN ELECTION OF NEW MEMBERS OF UN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL &
CULTURAL RIGHTS COMMITTEE
ESCR Committee Website: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cescr/index.htm
There will be an election
of Economic Social and Cultural Rights Committee members in April 2010. http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cescr/elections2010.htm
Heisoo Shin has been nominated by
the government of South Korea. We are especially excited by her
nomination as the addition of more women to this committee will work towards
the greater accountability of state parties to the economic, social and
cultural rights of women.
We would like to urge you to support
her nomination. Please write to the Foreign Ministry and the permanent mission
of your government and other governments to urge their support of her
nomination. It is especially important to lobby the 54 governments that make up
the ECOSOC, as only they can vote during the election. The 54 members are
lsited here: http://www.un.org/ecosoc/about/members.shtml.
The contact details of missions to
the UN can be found here: http://www.unog.ch/80256EE600582E34/(httpPages)/8CEC446B720477DA80256EF8004CB68C?OpenDocument
Dr. Heisoo Shin, is a greatly
respected academic in the world of human rights and international law.S he has
been considered for many years, as an expert in, gender and women’s human
rights issues. A sociologist by profession, she is a respected and active
defender of the rights of women in the Asia Pacific region. She has devoted
herself to the protection of the human rights in her native Korea.Heisoo was a
member of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination
Against Women from 2001 to 2008. She also served as a Commissioner in the
National Human Rights Commission of Korean.Her academic distinction, her
professional expertise on issues related to sociology, her extensive knowledge
of international human rights law, and her constant commitment with ensuring
human rights, speak for her intellectual capacity and integrity in the
performance of the functions of a member of this important Committee. For more
information about her please see her CV which is to be found on the OHCHR page
here: http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cescr/docs/CV-REPUBLIC_OF_KOREA-Mr.HeisooSHIN.pdf
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