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Marek Antoni Nowicki – President of the Human Rights Advisory Panel

Published: January 24, 2008

During the January session of the Human Rights Advisory Panel – a special body competent for considering the complaints of citizens against human rights violations by the UN international administration in Kosovo – Marek Antoni Nowicki, the president of the Board of HFHR, was chosen as its President.(24-JAN-08)

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. Apart from attorney Marek Antoni Nowicki, its members 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.

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