Gita Honwana Welch

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Gita Honwana Welch (* in the 20th century ) is a freelance consultant in the field of international development aid and a former employee of the United Nations . On the basis of a wide range of national and international functions, she was and is a participant and speaker at various conferences and work meetings. Honwana Welch comes from Mozambique .

Career

Honwana Welch's parents are Raúl Honwana and his second wife Nely Nhaca. She first studied law at the University of Lisbon (1970–1973) and at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo (1980–1982). She is considered the first Mozambican woman to graduate with a law degree. At Columbia University in New York she earned in the fields of law and international law specifically each a master's degree and a doctoral degree in law from the Wolfson College of the University of Oxford . In her dissertation, she dealt with the “Prohibition of Torture, Cruel Treatment, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment in International Law”, referring to the UN Convention against Torture from 1984.

In her home country Mozambique and in East Timor , she gained experience in rebuilding a justice 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 Department of Investigations and Legislation at the Ministry of Justice until 1989. She then started working for the United Nations in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Here she was the representative for southern Africa in the area of ​​women.

In East Timor, Honwana Welch was Minister of Justice in the first transitional government under the UN administration from 2000 to 2001 . Honwana Welch worked for UNDP in New York from 2001 to 2006 as Director of the Democratic Governance Group and in Angola as Country Director of UNDP from 2006 to 2010. From 2011 to 2013 she was Director of the Regional Service Center for West and Central Africa of the UNDP in Dakar ( Senegal ). She has been working as an independent consultant since 2013. From January to April 2018, she was acting country director of UNDP in Ghana .

Publications

  • Lobolo . 1983, (master thesis)
  • with Albie Sachs : Liberating the Law: Creating Popular Justice in Mozambique . Zed, London 1990, ISBN 0862329213
  • The Prohibition of Torture, Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment in International Law . University of Oxford, 1993 (published 1994), ( PhD thesis )
  • Ayesha Kadwani Dias (ed.), Gita Honwana Welch (ed.): Justice for the poor: perspectives on accelerating access . Oxford University Press , New Delhi, Oxford 2009, ISBN 9780195692051

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Chatham House: [1] , accessed July 28, 2018.
  2. ^ A b Signe Arnfred: Sexuality & gender politics in Mozambique: rethinking gender in Africa. Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge 2011, ISBN 978-1-84701-035-3 , p. 73. Excerpts from books.google.de
  3. ^ UNHCHR : Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment . on www.ohchr.org (English)
  4. ↑ RTP: Moçambicana Gita Welch é a nova directora do PNUD em Angola , April 3, 2006 , accessed on July 27, 2018.
  5. ↑ copac: bibliographic evidence . on www.copac.jisc.ac.uk
  6. ↑ copac: bibliographic evidence . on www.copac.jisc.ac.uk
  7. ^ National Library of Australia : bibliographic evidence . on www.nla.gov.au
personal data
SURNAME Honwana Welch, Gita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican advisor in the field of international development aid and former employee of the United Nations
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century