Name: 13th Meeting of States parties & 2011 elections - Committee against Torture
Start: 2011-10-18T00:00:00
End: 2011-10-18T00:00:00

Meetings

13th Meeting of States parties & 2011 elections - Committee against Torture

Date

18 October 2011

LOCATION

Geneva

A meeting of States parties took place in Geneva on 18 October 2011 to elect members of the Committee against Torture to replace the five current members with terms expiring on 31 December 2011.

Results

Name	State	Term expires 31 December
Mr. Satyabhooshun Gupt DOMAH	Mauritius	2015
Ms. Felice GAER	United States of America	2015
Mr. Abdoulaye GAYE	Senegal	2015
Mr. Claudio GROSSMAN	Chile	2015
Mr. George TUGUSHI	Georgia	2015

Note that Ms. Gaer, Mr. Gaye, and Mr. Grossman are current members of the Committee against Torture.

Documentation

CVs of the candidates nominated by 13 July 2011 (CAT/SP/35)
CVs of the candidates nominated after 13 July (CAT/SP/35/Add.1)
Withdrawal of the nomination of one candidate (CAT/SP/35/Add.2)
Provisional Agenda (CAT/SP/34)
Rules of Procedure of the Committee (CAT/C/3/Rev.5)
Rules of Procedure of the Meeting of States Parties (CAT/SP/2/Rev.1)
Resolution of the General Assembly (A/RES/64/173)

List of candidates

Name	State
Mr. Aleš BUTALA	Slovenia
Mr. Satyabhooshun Gupt DOMAH	Mauritius
Ms. Felice GAER	United States of America
Mr. Luis GALLEGOS CHIRIBOGA	Ecuador (withdrawn on 22 September)
Mr. Abdoulaye GAYE	Senegal
Mr. Claudio GROSSMAN	Chile
Mr. George TUGUSHI	Georgia
Ms. Marie-Gisèle ZINKPE	Benin
Ms. Dora Ruth DEL VALLE COBAR	Guatemala