Welcome to The Human Security Sites<\/a>. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ms. Sonia Picado is the President of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. From 2010-2016, she served as the Chair of the Advisory Board on Human Security. Ms. Picado is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica in San Jos\u00e9 and the former President of the National Liberation Party. In 1999, she led the International Commission of Inquiry on East Timor to study human rights situations there and presented her report to the Â鶹APP High Commissioner for Human Rights. She was the Costa Rican Ambassador to the United States from 1994 to 1998 and Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights from 1984 to 1994. Between 1988 and 1994, she also served as the Judge and Vice-Chair of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ms. Sonia Picado is the President of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. From 2010-2016, she served as the Chair of the Advisory Board\u00a0on Human Security. Ms. Picado is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica in San Jos\u00e9 and the former President of the National Liberation Party. In 1999, she led the International Commission of Inquiry on East Timor to study human rights situations there and presented her report to the Â鶹APP High Commissioner for Human Rights. She was the Costa Rican Ambassador to the United States from 1994 to 1998 and Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights from 1984 to 1994. Between 1988 and 1994, she also served as the Judge and Vice-Chair of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n Ms. Picado represented her country on the Experts Committee for the Promotion of Human Rights in Central America, at the Commission of European Communities from 1992 to 1994, as co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, DC from 1993 to 1994, and at the International Commission for the Recovery and Development of Central America from 1987 to 1989.<\/p>\n In 1980, Ms. Picado became the first woman to be elected Dean of the University of Costa Rica’s School of Law. She has also taught in Salzburg, Austria, at the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, the University of Dayton (Ohio), the World University Service in Austria and\u00a0Columbia University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mr. Kamel Morjane brings many years of experience working with the Â鶹APP. From 1977 to 1996, he served as Director for South West Asia, North Africa and the Middle East and Director for Africa with the Â鶹APP High Commissioner for Refugees. In 1996 he was appointed as Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the Â鶹APP and International Organizations in Geneva before his selection as the Secretary-General\u2019s Special Representative for the Democratic Republic of Congo in November 1999. More recently, between 2005 and 2010, he served as Defence Minister of Tunisia and as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2010 to 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mr. Kamel Morjane brings many years of experience working with the Â鶹APP. From 1977 to 1996, he served as Director for South West Asia, North Africa and the Middle East and Director for Africa with the Â鶹APP High Commissioner for Refugees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mr. Akihiko Tanaka is President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Before assuming the present post, he was Professor of International Politics at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo. Most recently he was Vice President of the University of Tokyo (2011-2012), Executive Vice President of the University of Tokyo (2009-2011), and Director of the Division of International Affairs of the University of Tokyo (2008-2010).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mr. Akihiko Tanaka is President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Before assuming the present post, he was Professor of International Politics at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo. Most recently he was Vice President of the University of Tokyo (2011-2012), Executive Vice President of the University of Tokyo (2009-2011), and Director of the Division of International Affairs of the University of Tokyo (2008-2010).<\/p>\n He obtained his B.A. in International Relations at the University of Tokyo in 1977 and his Ph.D. in Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981.<\/p>\n Mr. Tanaka\u2019s specialties include theories of international politics, contemporary international relations in East Asia, and Japan\u2019s foreign policy. He has numerous books and articles in Japanese and English including\u00a0Posuto kuraishisu no sekai\u00a0(The Post-Crisis World) (Tokyo: Nihon keizai shimbun shuppansha, 2009),\u00a0Ajia no nakano Nippon\u00a0(Japan and International Politics in Asia) (Tokyo: NTT Shupan, 2007), and the New Middle Ages: The World System in the 21st Century (Tokyo: The International House of Japan, 2002).<\/p>\n He received the Medal with Purple Ribbon for his academic achievements in 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On 8 May 2017, the Secretary-General reappointed Mr. Yukio Takasu as Special Adviser on Human Security. From April 2012 to May 2017, he served as Â鶹APP Under-Secretary-General for Management. He was previously appointed as Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Human Security in December 2010 by then Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. As a diplomat, Mr. Takasu has worked to advance the notion of human security in the Â鶹APP and amongst Member States. While serving as Director-General for Japan\u2019s Department of Multilateral Cooperation in 2000, he supported the activities of the Commission on Human Security, co-chaired by Mrs. Sadako Ogata and Professor Amartya Sen. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n On 8 May 2017, the Secretary-General reappointed Mr. Yukio Takasu as Special Adviser on Human Security. From April 2012 to May 2017, he served as Â鶹APP Under-Secretary-General for Management. He was previously appointed as Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Human Security in December 2010 by then Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. As a diplomat, Mr. Takasu has worked to advance the notion of human security in the Â鶹APP and amongst Member States. While serving as Director-General for Japan\u2019s Department of Multilateral Cooperation in 2000, he supported the activities of the Commission on Human Security, co-chaired by Mrs. Sadako Ogata and Professor Amartya Sen. In 2006, as the Permanent Representative of Japan to the Â鶹APP, he initiated the formation of the informal Friends of Human Security group. These efforts, combined with those of other Member States, culminated in the formal meeting of the General Assembly plenary on human security in May 2010 and the consensus resolution 66\/290 on human security at the GA in 2012.<\/p>\n Mr. Takasu has held a wide range of positions at the Â鶹APP including as Controller at the Assistant Secretary-General level and Member of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ). He also has nearly 40 years of experience in multilateral diplomacy, notably as Permanent Representative of Japan to the Â鶹APP in New York; Ambassador, Embassy of Japan, Washington; Ambassador, Scientific Cooperation, Human Security and Â鶹APP Reform, Tokyo; and Permanent Representative of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna, including the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bradford Smith is president of the Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. and, increasingly, global grantmakers\u2014a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector, together with research, education and training programs designed to advance knowledge of philanthropy at every level. Before joining the Foundation Center in 2008, Mr. Smith was president of the Oak Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, a major family foundation with programs and grant activities in 41 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bradford Smith is president of the Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide. The Center maintains the most comprehensive database on U.S. and, increasingly, global grantmakers\u2014a robust, accessible knowledge bank for the sector, together with research, education and training programs designed to advance knowledge of philanthropy at every level. Before joining the Foundation Center in 2008, Mr. Smith was president of the Oak Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland, a major family foundation with programs and grant activities in 41 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. With the Ford Foundation, he worked as representative in Brazil before becoming vice president in the New York headquarters, responsible for the global Peace and Social Justice Program. During his 10-year tenure as vice president, the program provided hundreds of millions of dollars to organizations working on issues of human rights, international cooperation, governance, and civil society in the U.S. and around the world, while supervising field operations on three continents and overseeing the creation of TrustAfrica.<\/p>\n Mr. Smith holds an M.A. in Economics from the New School for Social Research in New York and a B.A. in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mr. Matja\u017e Kova\u010di\u010d is the former Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the Â鶹APP in Geneva. Prior to his position in Geneva, Mr. Kova\u010di\u010d worked in the areas of human security, international relations, human rights, minority rights and women\u2019s rights as a representative of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mr. Matja\u017e Kova\u010di\u010d is the former Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the Â鶹APP in Geneva. Prior to his position in Geneva, Mr. Kova\u010di\u010d worked in the areas of human security, international relations, human rights, minority rights and women\u2019s rights as a representative of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia.<\/p>\n In 1991, after Slovenia’s independence, Mr. Kova\u010di\u010d became the country’s first Secretary-General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Later, he was selected the alternate Permanent Representative of the Republic of Slovenia to the Â鶹APP in New York as well as the Consul-General of the Republic of Slovenia in New York.<\/p>\n After serving as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Slovenia in Portugal and the Kingdom of Morocco, Mr. Kova\u010di\u010d continued to represent the Government of the Republic of Slovenia in a number of functions including as the National Coordinator for the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe and the South Eastern Europe Cooperation Initiative, the National Coordinator for the Human Security Network, the National Focal Point for the Alliance of Civilizations, and the National Coordinator for Cooperation with the International Organization of Francophone countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After 30 years in exile, Dr. Ginwala returned to South Africa as a member of the African National Congress (ANC) Presidents\u2019 Secretariat and its negotiating team. Following democratic elections, she entered parliament and became the First Speaker of the National Assembly. Prior to being elected to the National Assembly, Dr. Ginwala was actively involved in the ANC where she formed the taskforce to establish a Women\u2019s League.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n After 30 years in exile, Dr. Ginwala returned to South Africa as a member of the African National Congress (ANC) Presidents\u2019 Secretariat and its negotiating team. Following democratic elections, she entered parliament and became the First Speaker of the National Assembly. Prior to being elected to the National Assembly, Dr. Ginwala was actively involved in the ANC where she formed the taskforce to establish a Women\u2019s League.<\/p>\n Dr. Ginwala has dedicated her entire life to addressing democracy, governance, human rights and development. She served as the co-Chairperson of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, was a member of the African Union’s Audit Panel, and served as a member of the Advisory Panel of High-Level Personalities on African Development to the UN Secretary-General. Throughout her work, Dr. Ginwala has called for women\u2019s involvement in conflict resolution and peace building and has worked with women in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Palestine and Israel.<\/p>\n Dr. Ginwala was a member of the Advisory Board on Corruption, which was established under the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Since 2001, Mr. Fran\u00e7ois Fouinat has been advancing the Â鶹APP\u2019 work on human security in a number of ways.\u00a0 First, as the Executive Director of the Commission on Human Security (CHS), he managed the work of the Commission and supervised the elaboration of its report, Human Security Now: Protecting and Empowering People.\u00a0 Later, as the Executive Secretary of the Advisory Board on Human Security (ABHS), he led the Board\u2019s initial efforts to promote and disseminate the findings and conclusions of the CHS.\u00a0 After the establishment of the Human Security Unit, he served as Special Adviser to the ABHS and to the UN Trust Fund for Human Security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Since 2001, Mr. Fran\u00e7ois Fouinat has been advancing the Â鶹APP\u2019 work on human security in a number of ways.\u00a0 First, as the Executive Director of the Commission on Human Security (CHS), he managed the work of the Commission and supervised the elaboration of its report, Human Security Now: Protecting and Empowering People<\/em>.\u00a0 Later, as the Executive Secretary of the Advisory Board on Human Security (ABHS), he led the Board\u2019s initial efforts to promote and disseminate the findings and conclusions of the CHS.\u00a0 After the establishment of the Human Security Unit, he served as Special Adviser to the ABHS and to the UN Trust Fund for Human Security.<\/p>\n Since January 2006, Mr. Fouinat has been the Senior Adviser to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Migration and Development. In this capacity, he has played a central role in the conception and the establishment of the Global Forum on Migration and Development, the first global intergovernmental process that considers the links between migration and development through dialogue and cooperation.<\/p>\n As a retired international civil servant, Mr. Fouinat has represented the Â鶹APP in a number of important humanitarian functions in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. After serving as the Chef de Cabinet to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), he was in charge of UNHCR in the Asia Pacific region. In 1992-1993 he served as the Coordinator for UNHCR’s activities in the former Yugoslavia and in 1999, he was selected as UNHCR’s Chief of Operations for the Kosovo Emergency.<\/p>\n Mr. Fouinat graduated from the Faculty of Law and received a post-graduate diploma from the Institut des Hautes Etudes de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique Latine in Paris.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Professor Adebayo Adedeji is the founding Executive Director of the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies, a non-profit think tank based in Nigeria, which he established in 1991 after retiring from the Â鶹APP. He served as the Chairperson of the African Peer Review Mechanism, an initiative on good governance of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). Prior to these functions, Professor Adedeji had a distinguished academic, diplomatic and political career, serving his native country, Nigeria, and the international community for over four decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Professor Adebayo Adedeji is the founding Executive Director of the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies, a non-profit think tank based in Nigeria, which he established in 1991 after retiring from the Â鶹APP. He served as the Chairperson of the African Peer Review Mechanism, an initiative on good governance of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). Prior to these functions, Professor Adedeji had a distinguished academic, diplomatic and political career, serving his native country, Nigeria, and the international community for over four decades.<\/p>\n In the early 1970s, as Nigeria’s Cabinet Minister for Economic Development and Reconstruction, Professor Adedeji was pivotal in the establishment of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). From 1984 to 1991, he was the Special Representative of the Â鶹APP Secretary-General on Africa\u2019s Economic Crisis, in addition to his responsibilities as the Executive Secretary and Under-Secretary-General of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). Since 1998, he has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Â鶹APP African Futures Project, sponsored by the Â鶹APP Development Programme, the World Bank, ECA and the African Development Bank. In 2002, he was appointed Nigeria\u2019s Special Envoy to Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n Professor Adedeji received the International Gold Mercury Award in 1982 and the Arthur Houghton Star Crystal Award of the African-American Institute in 1991. In further recognition of his services to Africa and humanity, he was made an Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Namibia in March 1997 and received national honours from eight African countries.<\/p>\n At the age of 36, Professor Adedeji was offered tenure at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from London University in 1967, an M.P.A. from Harvard University in 1961 and a B.Sc. in Economics from University College in Leicester in 1958. In addition, Professor Adedeji has been awarded eight honorary degrees from various academic institutions and was named as one of the 50 most influential thinkers on development.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n UNTFHS 2017 Call for Proposals: The UNTFHS 2017 Call for Proposals\u00a0was released with the deadline of 30 September 2017 (11:59 pm New York time) for the submission of concept notes to be considered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The UNTFHS Call for Proposals<\/a><\/span>\u00a0was released with the deadline of 30 September 2017 (11:59 pm New York time) for the submission of concept notes to be considered. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div> High-Level Event on Human Security and its contribution to Agenda 2030:<\/b> The HSU in partnership with member States is organising a high-level event on 7 July 2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The HSU in partnership with the Government of Japan and members of the Human Security Network (Austria, Chile, Costa Rica, Greece, Ireland, Jordan, Mali, Norway, Panama, Slovenia, Switzerland, Thailand and South Africa as an observer) is organising a high-level event to share experiences and lessons learned on how the human security approach can help strengthen strategies, tools and partnerships to accelerate integrated and preventive action towards achieving Agenda 2030 and the SDGs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 16 June 2017 Panama assumes Presidency of the Human Security Network: At a luncheon summoned by the Permanent Representative of Panama to the UN, H.E. Laura Flores, Panama assumed leadership of the Human Security Network from Slovenia. At the handover, Network members voiced their commitment to human security, its added value to the work of the Â鶹APP and to collective efforts to ensure its visibility. For more information, read the press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sonia Picado<\/h2>\n
Kamel Morjane<\/h2>\n
Vitit Muntarbhorn<\/h2>\n
Akihiko Tanaka<\/h2>\n
Yukio Takasu<\/h2>\n
Bradford Smith<\/h2>\n
Matja\u017e Kova\u010di\u010d<\/h2>\n
Frene Ginwala<\/h2>\n
Fran\u00e7ois Fouinat<\/h2>\n
Adebayo Adedeji<\/h2>\n
UNTFHS 2017 Call for Proposals<\/h2>\n
High-Level Event on Human Security and its contribution to Agenda 2030<\/h2>\n
16 June 2017 Panama assumes Presidency of the Human Security Network<\/h2>\n