Prof. Theo van Boven

About Professor Theo van Boven:- 

From December 2001 to December 2004, Theo van Boven (1934) was UN Special Rapporteur against Torture. Earlier he served as Director of Human Rights of the United Nations and was a member  of the United Nations Sub-Commission for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and of the Committee on the Elimination of Racism and Discrimination.

He was also the first Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He was the Head of the Netherlands delegation to the United Nations Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of an International Criminal Court (Rome, 1998). He was President of the Netherlands Association of International Law; Member of the International Commission of Jurists; and a member of the Board of the International Movement against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism.

His education background and honours include: Master of Comparative Law (Dallas, Texas 1960), Doctor of Law (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, 1967), Doctor Honoris Causa (Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, 1982, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, 1988, University of New York at Buffalo, 1991), Recipient of the Louise Weiss Prize (Strasbourg, 1982), the Right Livelihood Honorary Award (Stockholm, 1985), and the Carnegie Wateler Peace Prize (The Hague, 2004). He was also a visiting professor at Harvard Law School (1987) and at the New York University Law School (1990). He has written extensively on international human rights and humanitarian law

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Related Material

Article 75 – Reparations to victims

The United Nations Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparations of Justice for Victims of Crime – Highlights

An introductory note was prepared by Prof. Dr. Theo van Boven describing the historic context in which the legal instrument was adopted, significant developments in the negotiating history, a summary of key provisions, and an overview of the influence of the instrument on subsequent legal developments.

Legal Instruments

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Rome, 17 July 1998, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, p. 3

(Download ‘Rome Statute’ in the PDF Format: Size 23Mb (The document combined with Chinese, Arabic and English languages)

http://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/1998/07/19980717%2006-33%20PM/Ch_XVIII_10p.pdf

Preparatory Documents
http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/ha/ga_60-147/ga_60-147.html

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