An Ethiopian lawyer was elected to the Human Rights Advisory Committee last month. The newly elected, Imeru Tamrat Yigezu, will serve for three years as of 2013.

According to A Week in the Horn, Imeru Tamrat is a lawyer by training, a reputed academician, researcher and consultant, who published numerous publications on water law and environment related subjects and has written extensively on the Nile issue.

Read below the Human Rights Council’s press release regarding the matter.

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A/HRC/21/17/Add.1
Advance Unedited Version
Distr.: General
25 September 2012
Original: English

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Human Rights Council
Twenty-first session
Agenda item 1

Organizational and procedural matters

Election of members of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee*

Note by the Secretary-General

Addendum

1. In reference to paragraphs 10, 11 and 12 of the note by the Secretary-General on the election of members of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee (A/HRC/21/17), the Secretariat has received additional information relating to candidatures for the vacant seats to be filled during the twenty-first session of the Human Rights Council.

Additional candidatures

2. On 13 September 2012, the Permanent Mission of Senegal submitted to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights the candidature of Mr. Imeru Tamrat Yigezu.

3. On 21 September 2012, the Permanent Mission of Austria submitted to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights the candidature of Ms. Katharina Pabel.

4. The nominations received are listed below; biographical data relating to the candidates are contained in the annex.

African States

Western European and Other States

Complementary information relating to the candidate nominated by Bahrain

5. On 24 September 2012, in accordance with paragraph 68 of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, and further to discussions with the Human Rights Council Bureau, the candidate nominated by Bahrain, Mr. Saeed Mohamed Al Faihani, informed in writing the President of the Council that he has relinquished all posts he previously held in the Government of Bahrain.

* The information contained in the annex to the present report is circulated as received, in the language of submission only.

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