On 12 February, during the 11th Meeting of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, Dainius Pūras, a HRMI Board member, was elected as one of the nine new members of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is a body established under the Convention on the Rights of the Child to monitor the implementation of the Convention by its 193 State parties. The Committee is composed of 18 independent experts who are elected by secret ballot for a term of four years.
Candidates from 22 states were nominated for the 9 places available. Dainius Pūras was elected in the first round of elections.
“Dainius Pūras became the first and only Lithuanian serving on this high level human rights expert body,” said Henrikas Mickevicius, HRMI Executive director. “We see the election of Dainius Pūras as a well-deserved international recognition of his competence and devotion to human rights.”
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