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Inaugural session of the Human Rights Advisory Panel in Kosovo

Published: November 13, 2007

After a long period of waiting, the inaugural session of the Human Rights Advisory Panel – a special body competent to consider the complaints of citizens against human rights violations by the international United Nations administration in Kosovo – will take place on 15 November 2007 in Pristina in Kosovo. Marek Antoni Nowicki, the President of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights is a member of the Panel.(13-NOV-07)

Agnieszka Chmielecka/ HRH Warsaw

The Panel is composed of three members nominated by the President of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and appointed by the UN. Among them is attorney Marek Antoni Nowicki – the President of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, former member of the European Human Rights Commission and Ombudsperson in Kosovo. The other Panel judges are: Prof. Paul Lemmens (Belgium) – judge in the Council of State and Mrs. Michele Picard (France) – judge, former President of the international Human Rights Chamber in Bosnia.

Marta Lempicka wrote about the nomination of Marek Antoni Nowicki on 22 January 2007: http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/7721.html

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