Marta Santos Pais

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Marta Santos Pais is the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Violence against Children. She brings to this position more than 30 years experience on human rights issues, engagement in United Nations and intergovernmental processes and a firm commitment to the rights of the child.

Before her appointment, Marta Santos Pais was the Director of the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, a position she has held since 2001. She joined UNICEF in 1997 as Director of Evaluation, Policy and Planning. Previously she was the Rapporteur of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and Vice-Chair of the Coordinating Committee on Childhood Policies of the Council of Europe. Ms Santos Pais was a Special Adviser to the UN Study on Violence against Children and to the Machel Study on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children.

Marta Santos Pais is a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Children’s Rights, and a member of the Advisory Board of the International Inter-disciplinary Course on Children’s Rights. Previously, she was also a Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Child Centre in Paris, and Visiting Professor at the International University in Lisbon, Portugal. In Portugal, she was Senior Legal Adviser for human rights in the Comparative Law Office and a member of the Portuguese Commission for the Promotion of Human Rights and Equality.

Marta Santos Pais is the author of a large number of publications on human rights and children’s rights. She was a member of the UN Drafting Group of the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child and of its two Optional Protocols. She participated in the development of a number of other international human rights standards, including:

  • The Statute of the International Criminal Court
  • The Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
  • The Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
  • The Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities
  • The Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances.

Ms. Santos Pais is a national of Portugal. She speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian.

More about her role: http://www.crin.org/violence_2010/SRSG/index.asp

pdf: http://www.crin.org/violence_2010/SRSG/index.asp

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