Biographical Note

SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS BACRE WALY NDIAYE OF SENEGAL AS DEPUTY SPECIAL

REPRESENTATIVE FOR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Bacre Waly Ndiaye of Senegal as his Deputy Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Mr. Ndiaye currently serves as Director of the Division of Human Rights Procedures at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.  Immediately prior to his current assignment, he served from 1998 to 2006 as Director of the New York Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.  He has participated in a wide range of field missions, particularly in West and Central Africa, and has been closely involved in the work of integrated mission task forces and planning for United Nations peacekeeping operations.  From 1992 to 1998 he was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions.

A lawyer by profession, Mr. Ndiaye has worked extensively in the field of human rights.  In his capacity as Special Rapporteur, he has participated in missions to Yugoslavia (1992), including for the International Commission of investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity; Rwanda (1993 and 1994); and Papua New Guinea (1995).  He also prepared reports on missions to Peru (1994); Indonesia and Timor-Leste, and Burundi (1995); Colombia (1996); and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sri Lanka and the United States (1997).

Mr. Ndiaye remained an elected member of the Senegalese Bar Council for 16 years (1982-1998) and served as its Secretary-General for 8 years (1983-1991).  During 1995, he was appointed a member of the Truth and Justice Commission in Haiti and, in 1994, he was awarded the Human Rights Prize of the International Service for Human Rights.

Mr. Ndiaye is married and has two daughters.

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