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PARTICIPANTS

Co-chairs

Manfred Bardeleben
Director, New York Office,
Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Stephen Marks
Director, United Nations Studies Program,
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Staff

Rainer Braun
Program Officer
Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Miriam Friedman
Program Officer
Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Andrea Papan
Program Coordinator
UN Studies Program, Columbia University

Rapporteur

Suzanne Spears
Research Associate for International Law and Organizations
Council on Foreign Relations

Participants^*
[Affiliations are listed for identification purposes only. Participants attended as individuals, rather than as representatives of their governments or organizations.]

Mahnaz Afkhami
President
Sisterhood is Global Institute – SIGI

H.E. Bagher Asadi
Ambassador
Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Jim Baker
Director, Multinational Enterprises
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)

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Laurence Boisson de Chazournes
Senior Counsel, Environment & International Law Unit
The World Bank

Christophe Bouvier
Chief, Department of Rehabilitation and Social Sustainability
United Nations Office for Project Services (UN-OPS)

Reed Brody
Advocacy Director
Human Rights Watch

Widney Brown
Consultant
Human Rights Watch

Doug Cahn
Vice-President, Human Rights Program
Reebok

Marine de Carne de Trescesson
First Secretary
Mission of France

H.E. Ricardo Castaneda-Cornejo
Ambassador Extradordinary and Plenipotentiary
Mission of El Salvador

Shabbir Cheema
Director, Management Development and Governance Program
United Nations Development Programme

Peijie Chen
Columbia University Law School

Ali Cherif
First Secretary
Mission of Tunisia

Mwila Grace Banda Chigaga
Counsellor
Mission of Zambia

Sew Fei Chin
Consul in Hong Kong
Mission of Singapore

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Fernando Chomar
Second Secretary
Mission of Mozambique

H.E. Anwarul Karim Chowdhury
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Mission of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

H.E. Fode M. Dabore
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Mission of Sierre Leone

Thalif Deen
Development Editor
Inter-Press Service

Peter Felten
First Secretary
Mission of Germany

Catherine Fitzpatrick
Executive Director
International League for Human Rights

Felice Gaer
Director
Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights

Jan Helgesen
Special Adviser
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Peggy Hicks
Former Deputy High Representative for Human Rights
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

Kamal Hossain
Former Minister for Foreign Affairs
People’s Republic of Bangladesh

H.E. Asda Jayanama
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Mission of Thailand

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Dienebou Kaba Camara
Chargé d’Affaires
Mission of Côte d’Ivoire

H.E. Janis Björn Kanavin
Ambassador for Human Rights
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Jeffrey Laurenti
Executive Director, Policy Studies
United Nations Association - USA

Ian Levine
Representative at the UN
Amnesty International

Monica Martinez
Second Secretary
Mission of Ecuador

Maria Antonieta Monroy
Minister for Human Rights & Social Affairs
Mission of Mexico

Bacre Waly Ndiaye
New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Mankeur Ndiaye
Counsellor
Mission of Senegal

Marcella Maria Nicodemos
Counsellor for Social Affairs & Human Rights
Mission of Brazil

James C.N. Paul
Professor Emeritus
Rutgers University Law School

Mariano Simon Padros
Second Secretary
Mission of Argentina

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H.E. Dr. Ernst Sucharipa
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Mission of Austria

Fesseha A. Tessema
Minister Counsellor
Mission of Ethiopia

Engelbert Theuermann
Counsellor
Mission of Austria

Lidija Topic
Third Secretary
Mission of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Jolyon Welsh
First Secretary for Human Rights & Social Policy Issues
Mission of the United Kingdom

Hazel de Wet
First Secretary
Mission of Namibia

H.E. Mr. Jacob Botwe Wilmot
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Mission of Ghana

Alexandre V. Zmeevski
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
Mission of the Russian Federation