Human Rights Committee - Members

Ahmed Tawfik KHALIL (Egypt)

Date and place of birth: 4 November 1925 , Cairo, Egypt

Working Languages: English, French and Arabic

Current position/function:

Member of the Human Rights Committee since the year 2000

Advisor to the Arab Organization for Human Rights

Advisor to the National Center for Middle East Studies, Cairo

Main professional activities:

Member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs

Member of the Egyptian Society for International Law

Occasional lectures at the Diplomatic Institute in Cairo (as former Permanent Representative of Egypt to the UN in New York).

Member of the "New Forum" in Cairo (an NGO whose activities cover political, economic and social affairs)

Educational Background:

Bachelor of Commerce (1946), Cairo University

LLB (1992), Cairo University

Fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Harvard University , Cambridge , Mass (1968, 1976)

Other main activities in the field relevant to the mandate of the treaty body concerned:

Lectured on the ICCPR to members of the Egyptian judiciary as part of a programme organized through the UNDP in Cairo

Member of a group of five Arab experts commissioned by the HCHR upon request of the Secretary General of the Arab League, to revise the 1994 "Arab Charter Rights" for the consideration of Arab States

Lectured at the Egyptian National Council for Women

Participation in seminars and discussion groups organized in Cairo by Human Rights NGOs

List of most recent publication in the field:

A comprehensive analysis of ICCPR to be included in a handbook on human rights for Arabic speaking public, as part of an ongoing project of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, to promote human rights culture.

Diplomatic career:

1982-1985 Permanent Representative of Egypt to the United Nations, New York

Representative of Egypt to the Security Council (1984-1985)

Chairman of the Group of 77 (October 1984-1985)

1979-1982 Ambassador to the then European Economic Community and to the Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

1977-1979 Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cairo

1974-1977 Ambassador to Finland (where he closely followed the later phases of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe )

1972-1974 Head of Egypt 's Interest Section, Washington , D.C.

1969-1974 Director of the Department of International Organizations, Specialized Agencies, Technical Assistance and Conferences, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cairo

1971-1973 Member of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ)

1962-1968 Deputy Director of the Department of International Organizations, Cairo . First Secretary then Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Egypt to the United Nations, New York (served on the First Committee, the Special Political Committee and the Third Committee of the General Assembly). Joined the diplomatic service in 1948 as attaché to the Cabinet of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Served in London , Rome and South Africa . During his diplomatic career, he participated in numerous international meetings and conferences. Lectured at the Diplomatic Institutes in Cairo and Nairobi and took part in specialized seminars and workshops in several United States universities and in Europe , Egypt and elsewhere in Africa

Other United Nations functions:

1993-1999 Alternate expert in the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, as it is now called. Served as a member of the Working Group on Minorities

Related functions and activities:

Adviser to the Arab Organization of Human Rights (AOHR), which enjoys NGO consultative status with the Economic and Social Council

Represented AOHR at several regional and international meetings and seminars

Served in that capacity as a member of the group of experts designated by the International Commission of Jurists to participate in the Third Government Legal Experts' Meeting on the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights (Addis Ababa, 1996)

Served as Principal Rapporteur of the Third NGO Conference on Solidarity and Cooperation in the Mediterranean , which was held in Madrid in November 1995 on the eve of the Barcelona Ministerial Meeting on Euro-Mediterranean Partnership

Languages:

Arabic, English, French, Italian

[This profile can be found in the document CCPR/SP/56]