José Ayala Lasso
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José Ayala-Lasso
)José Julio Ayala Lasso | |
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Ecuadorian Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 1997–1999 | |
| Preceded by | Galo Leoro Franco |
| Succeeded by | Fander Falconí |
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| Born | 29 January 1932 Quito |
| Nationality | Ecuadorian |
José Ayala LassoUnited Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Career
Pursuant to
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
and started his four-year mandate on 5 April 1994.
His first important challenge was to give contours to his mandate and establish the credibility of the Office. Barely appointed, he had to address the crisis caused by the
High Commissioner were marked by a continuous effort to give greater visibility to the United Nations human rights programme. Thus, he opened field offices in all regions of the world and traveled extensively to confer with leaders worldwide. His vision was to transform the former Centre for Human Rights from a passive conference-services secretariat into a pro-active centre of excellence with an expert secretariat and an expanded mandate to conduct projects throughout the world. Under his leadership the office should develop an operational capacity similar to that of the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees. His priorities were crisis management, prevention and early warning, assistance to States in transition to democracy
, the right to development, and the expansion of national human rights institutions. As an administrator. he is remembered fondly by the staff because of his openness and kindness. Less successful were the efforts at restructuring, primarily because of the failure of the UN General Assembly to approve an adequate budget for the Office.
Dr. Ayala Lasso resigned on 31 March 1997 to return to Ecuador to broker the peace negotiations between
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He also served also as Ecuadorian Ambassador to the European Economic Communities, to France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Peru and the Vatican.[3]
He continues to be an active human rights advocate and is an active participant of "Project 2048" of the University of California at Berkeley, which aims at the creation of a World Court of Human Rights.
References
- ^ Also spelled Jose Ayala Lasso and Jose Ayala-Lasso
- ISBN 978-9942-02-278-3
- ^ a b "José Ayala-Lasso". United Nations - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Retrieved 10 July 2013.
- Jose Ayala Lasso, Asi se gano la Paz, Pablo Cuvi Editor, Quito, Ecuador, 2009. ISBN 978-9942-02-278-3.
- José Ayala Lasso, "Defining the Mandate. New UN Efforts to Protect Human Rights", Harvard International Review, Winter 1994/95, pp. 38–78.
- José Ayala Lasso, "Making Human Rights a Reality in the twenty-first century" in: Emory International Law Review, vol. 10 (1996) pp. 497–508.
- José Ayala Lasso, Report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on his Mission to Rwanda 11–12 May 1994 (UN Doc. E/CN.4/S3/3)
- Report of Jose Ayala Lasso, High Commissioner for Human Rights, to the 1995 session of the Commission on Human Rights, E/CN.4/1995/98, para. 133.
- Statement by the High Commissioner for Human Rights to a joint meeting of the Commission's rapporteurs, representatives, experts and working groups, E/CN.4/1995/5/Add.1, p. 6.
- Statement by Jose Ayala-Lasso, High Commissioner for Human Rights, to the 1996 session of the Commission, 9 April 1996.
Report of Jose Ayala-Lasso, High Commissioner for Human Rights, E/CN.4/1996/103.
- Ayala Lasso, Jose. In: Encyclopedia of Human Rights, edited by David P. Forsythe. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Volume 1, pages 130-132.
- Alfred de Zayas, "United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights" in Rudolf Bernhardt (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Public International Law, Vol. IV, pp. 1129–1142.
- Alfred de Zayas, "Human Rights, United Nations High Commissioner", in Helmut Volger (ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of the United Nations, Kluwer, 2002, pp. 216–223; 2nd revised edition 2009, ISBN 978-90-04-18004-8.
- Jakob Th. Möller, "United Nations Human Rights Committee Case Law 1977-2008", N.P.Engel Verlag, Kehl/Strasbourg, 2009, p. 7, ISBN 978-3-88357-144-7
- Kirk Boyd, "2048. Humanity's Agreement to live together". Barrett-Kohler Publishers, San Francisco, 2010. ISBN 978-1-60509-539-4.
External links
- http://www.alfreddezayas.com/Law_history/Ayala2005_de.shtml
- http://www.alfreddezayas.com/Law_history/Ayalaenglish.shtml
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