United Nations (UN) member states have elected Zambian law Professor Cephas Lumina as member of the Committee of the Rights of the Child (CRC) from 2017 to 2020 at the elections held on Thursday at UN Headquarters in New York.
Prof Lumina was one of the nine that were elected out of 17 candidates.Other newly elected members are: Renate Winter (Austria), Amal Salman Aldoseri (Bahrain), Velina Todorova (Bulgaria), Olga A. Khazova (Russian Federation), BenyamDawitMezmur (Ethiopia),Mikiko Otani
(Japan), Ann Marie Skelton (South Africa) and Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna (Uruguay).
Zambia’s Permanent Representative to the UN ambassador Dr Mwaba Kasese-Bota conveyed its gratitude to the Members of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child for support the Zambian candidate, and congratulated all the newly elected members of the CRC.
Dr Kasese-Bota commended the Government for fielding a candidate in the election and supporting his candidature.She expressed gratitude to the diplomatic staff for their tireless efforts to campaign and ensure that Prof Lumina was in one-round ballot.
The Ambassador said Zambia’s good standing in the eyes of the international community, make it highly favoured for consideration to take up international assignments for the good of humanity as was the case in election of Prof Lumina.
Lumina is a Professor of Law at University of Fort Hare in South Africa and previously served as Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights at United Nations Human Rights.
Lumina holds Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Zambia,Law with Merit Zambia, Master of Laws in International Human Rights Law from University of Essex in United Kingdom and PhD in International Human Rights Law from Griffith University, Australia among other academic and professional credentials.
According to First Secretary for Press and Public Relations Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zambia to the UN Chibaula Silwamba, Prof Lumina has over 25 years’ legal practice, research and teaching experience in several countries including Australia, South Africa,Swaziland, Sweden, Uganda and Zambia.
The CRC is the body of 18 Independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State parties.
The CRC also monitors the implementation of two Optional Protocols to the Convention, on involvement of children in armed conflict and on sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography as well as an Optional Protocol on communications procedure which will allow
individual children to submit complaints regarding specific violations of their rights under the Convention.
Congrats
All these brains have left Zambia, due to thugs, and leaving drunks and chimps in charge of the economy…HH is a brilliant boy, and things will change… and you will recall my words.
Now ‘boy’ is the language., the problem with cadreism…
Zambia should field more candidates for all such things. This is not an extraordinary achievement but because Zambians always aim low this seems gargantuan.
Brilliant!
How un-thoughful of UN children have no rights in Zambia. Child labour and child abuse is the order of the day in Zambia.
Congrats Prof.
congrats….though yo red lips is too much utujilijili
Congrats papa education pays .
Moronic comment, Vikram. The professor has achieved far much more than you could ever dream about! These are very competitive positions and we should learn to be proud that a fellow Zambian has attained such global recognition
He must be upnd. To them any successful person is a drunkard.
Zambia has a lot of learned people, real learned but they are either frustrated by our political leader who think they know everything. Bought degrees and honorary fake degrees! Congrats Prof. At least UN appreciates HR unlike Some politicians!!
at an expert in international debt. yet Zambia Lungu never consulted him before putting Zambia into more debt. anyway, congrats prof.
Congratulations my froend