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MAUREEN O'NEIL APPOINTED CHAIR OF THE BOARD OFTHE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT
April 3, 1996 No. 60
MAUREEN O'NEIL APPOINTED CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF
THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND
DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT
Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy today announced the appointment of Maureen
O'Neil as chair of the Board of the International Centre for Human Rights and
Democratic Development (ICHRDD). Ms. O'Neil has served on the board of ICHRDD
since August 23, 1995.
Ms. O'Neil is currently Director of the Institute on Governance where she works as
an advisor to governments in developing countries on issues of gender equity in
policy formulation, human rights and democratic development. She previously
served as President of the North South Institute and as Secretary General of the
Canadian Human Rights Commission. She has also been Deputy Minister of the
Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, and as Deputy Head of Status of Women Canada in
the 1980s led Canadian delegations to the Copenhagen and Nairobi United Nations
World Conferences on Women. Ms. O'Neil has several scholarly publications to her
credit and has been patron of a scholarship in her name at Carleton University in
Ottawa since 1985.
The International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development is an
independent Centre established by an Act of Parliament in 1988 which provides
persons and organizations in other countries with training, advice and research
services to promote the observance of human rights and the full participation of
all citizens in democratic process. Ten of the thirteen members of the Centre's
Board of Directors are appointed by the Government of Canada. Three nationals of
developing countries are appointed by the Board itself.
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