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Zambian law professor elected to UN Committee

Xinhua, July 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

United Nations (UN) member states have elected a Zambian law professor as a member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a statement released on Friday said.

Professor Cephas Lumina was one of the nine that were elected out of 17 candidates to be in the committee for the term that starts from 2017 to 2020, according to the statement released by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Zambia to the UN.

The Zambian government has since commended member of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child for supporting the Zambian candidate.

Zambia's Permanent Representative to the UN Mwaba Kasese-Bota said Zambia's good standing in the eyes of the international community was making it possible for its nationals to take up international assignments.

Lumina is a professor of law at University of Fort Hare in South Africa and he previously served as an independent expert on foreign debt and human rights at the UN Human Rights.

The CRC is a 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. Endit