Commision on the Status of Women
Forty-second session, 2-13 march 1998

PANEL I - HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN
Government Nominee UN system Civil Society/SG experts
Rose M. Migiro, Head, Dept. of Civil and Criminal Law, Univ. of Dar-es-Salaam; has written on inheritance law; expert on gender and law (United Republic of Tanzania) Cecilia Medina, Member, Human Rights Committee (Chile) Shanti Dairiam, Director, IWRAW Asia/Pacific (Malaysia)


Shelagh Day, National Association of Women and the Law (Canada)

PANEL II - THE GIRL CHILD
Government Nominee UN system Civil Society/SG experts
Lina Laigo, Secretary, Dept. of Social Welfare and Development; psychologist; researcher on juvenile delinquency; Chairperson, Council for the Welfare of Children (Philippines) Sadig Rasheed, Director, Programme Division, UNICEF Paloma Bonfil Sanchez, Secretaria Ejecutiva, GIMTRAP, research and
writing on indigenous women's and children's rights (Mexico)


Margaret Vogt, Senior Associate, International Peace Academy (Nigeria)

PANEL III - WOMEN AND ARMED CONFLICT
Government Nominee UN system Civil Society/SG experts
Amb. Helga Hernes, Special Advisor in the Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs on peace keeping and preventive diplomacy (Norway) Bernard Muna, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (EGM on Gender-based Persecution) (Cameroon) Hina Jilani, Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan (Pakistan)
Rafiga Azimova, Head of the Research Centre of the Council of Women of Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan)


PANEL IV - VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Government Nominee UN system Civil Society/SG experts
Barbara Prammer, Federal Minister for Women's Affairs and Consumer Protection (Austria) Radhika Coomaraswamy, Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women (Sri Lanka)
Bonnie Campbell, Head of Violence against Women Office of the Justice Department (United States)

Dra. Lisbeth Guevara, Prof. of Law; member Commission against Domestic Violence of the National Women's Council (Venezuela)