Gita Honwana-Welch
Gita Honwana Welch is a freelance consultant in the field of international development aid and a former employee of the United Nations. On the basis of her varied national and international functions, she has been and is a participant and speaker at various conferences and working meetings. Honwana Welch comes from Mozambique.[1]
Career
Honwana Welch's parents are Raúl Honwana and his second wife Nely Nhaca.
In her home country Mozambique and in East Timor, she gained experience in rebuilding a judicial system in former crisis countries. In Mozambique, she worked as a public prosecutor from 1978, as a judge at the Maputo Provincial Court from July 1979 to July 1983, and as Director of the Investigation and Legislation Department at the Ministry of Justice until 1989. She then began working for the United Nations in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Here, she was the representative for Southern Africa in the area of women.[1][4]
In East Timor, Honwana Welch was Minister of Justice in the first transitional government under UN administration from 2000 to 2001. In New York at UNDP, Honwana Welch worked as Director of the Democratic Governance Group from 2001 to 2006, and in Angola as Country Director of UNDP from 2006 to 2010. From 2011 to 2013, she was Director of the UNDP Regional Service Centre for West and Central Africa in Dakar, Senegal.[1] Since 2013, she has been working as an independent consultant. From January to April 2018, she served as acting Country Director of UNDP in Ghana.
Publications
- Lobolo. 1983, (Master thesis)
- with ISBN 0862329213[5]
- The Prohibition of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment in International Law. University of Oxford, 1993 (1994 publiziert), (Doctoral thesis)[6]
- Ayesha Kadwani Dias (pub.), Gita Honwana Welch (pub.): Justice for the poor: perspectives on accelerating access. ISBN 9780195692051[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d "Dr Gita Honwana Welch". Chatham House. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-84701-035-3, p. 73. Excerpts from books.google.de
- ^ "OHCHR | Convention against Torture". www.ohchr.org. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ^ "Moçambicana Gita Welch é a nova directora do PNUD em Angola". Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-06-29.
- ^ copac: bibliographical reference. at www.copac.jisc.ac.uk
- ^ copac: bibliographical reference. at www.copac.jisc.ac.uk
- ^ National Library of Australia: bibliographical reference. at www.nla.gov.au