International Review Committee for Review Meeting of

the R.O.C.'s Initial Report under the ICERD

Manfred Nowak

Nationality : Austria

Current Positions :

• Professor of International Human Rights, University of Vienna

• Secretary General, European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC)

Specialties：

• International Law
• Constitutional Law
• Human Rights Advocacy

Experience：

• Committee member of Taiwan 1st to 3rd reports on ICCPR

• Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

• Expert Member of the UN Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances

• Judge at the Human Rights Chamber for Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo

Keiko Ko

Nationality : Japan

Current Positions :

• Professor of International Law, Nanzan University
• Refugee Examination Counsellor of Immigration Services Agency of Japan

Specialties：

• International Law
• Criminal Law
• Human Rights Protection

Experience：

• 2018-2022 CERD member

• Member, Delegation of Japan to the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression

• Member, the International Human Rights Law Association

Sheryl Lightfoot

Nationality : Canada

Current Position :

• Professor of Political Science and First Nations and Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia

Specialties：

• Global Indigenous Rights and Politics
• Claims and Negotiations of Indigenous peoples’ rights
• First Nations and Indigenous studies

Experience：

• Vice Chair and North American Member on the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• President of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association

Rosslyn Noonan

Nationality : New Zealand

Current Position :

• New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice, University of Auckland

Specialties：

• Human Rights policies
• Religious and Racial Diversities

Experience：

• Committee member of Taiwan 3rd report on ICESCR

• Chair of Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions

• New Zealand's Human Rights Chief Commissioner