Cephas Lumina
Cephas Lumina is a Zambian lawyer and human rights expert, and the current "United Nations Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights". He was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2008 and his mandate was extended in 2011.[1]
He holds an LLB with Merit (Zambia), an LLM in International Human Rights Law (Essex, United Kingdom), a PhD in International Human Rights Law (Griffith University, Australia), and an Advanced Diploma in International Human Rights (Åbo Akademi University, Finland).
He is an Advocate of the High Court for Zambia and an Extra-Ordinary Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Pretoria, and has served as a Visiting Professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University in Sweden, a Visiting Lecturer at Makerere University in Uganda and as a consultant to the United Nations, the International Development Law Organization, the Canadian International Development Agency, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, the Human Rights Trust of Southern Africa, Women for Change and the High Court of Tanzania. He has written and lectured on human rights, humanitarian law, commercial law and legal education. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the International Human Rights Law Review and African Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law.
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- Adequate Housing (Raquel Rolnik)
- Contemporary Forms of Slavery (Gulnara Shahinian)
- Cultural Rights (Farida Shaheed)
- Democratic and Equitable International Order (Alfred-Maurice de Zayas)
- Education (Kishore Singh)
- Effects of Economic Reform Policies and Foreign Debt on Human Rights (Cephas Lumina)
- Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (Christof Heyns)
- Right to Food (Olivier De Schutter)
- Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association (Maina Kiai)
- Freedom of Opinion and Expression (David Kaye)
- Freedom of Religion or Belief (Heiner Bielefeldt)
- Human Rights Defenders (Margaret Sekaggya)
- Independence of Judges and Lawyers (Gabriela Carina Knaul de Albuquerque e Silva)
- Minority Issues (Rita Izsak)
- Physical and Mental Health (Anand Grover)
- Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism (Ben Emmerson)
- Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (Githu Muigai)
- Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (Najat M’jid Maala)
- Torture (Juan E. Méndez)
- Trafficking in Persons (Joy Ngozi Ezeilo)
- Violence against Women (Rashida Manjoo)
- Human Rights and Access to Safe Drinking water and Sanitation (Catarina de Albuquerque)
- Human Rights and International Solidarity (Rudi Muhammad Rizki)
- Human Rights and the Illicit Movement of Toxic Waste (Calin Georgescu)
- Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises (John Ruggie)
- Human Rights of Indigenous People (James Anaya)
- Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (Chaloka Beyani)
- Human Rights of Migrants (François Crépeau)
- Human Rights and the Environment
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