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has also consistently challenged the United Nations to
live up to its founding ideals as a servant of all the
world’s peoples, and the instrument of its Member States
in advancing development, peace and security.
In
1997, as The
following year, he led a campaign among member states to
this effect, which culminated in a call by the General
Assembly for a definitive account.
The Secretary
General responded by producing a
report widely considered to have been groundbreaking both
in its honesty and in its thoroughness. An expert in the field of international justice, Prince Zeid also played a central role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court. He chaired, for example, over the course of two years, the complex, often pioneering, negotiations on the ‘elements’ of the individual offenses falling under the crimes of: Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes. Courts
around the world now cite the definitions for ‘Crimes
Against Humanity’, refined by the ‘elements’, as
‘authoritative’. In
September 2002, Prince Zeid was elected the first
president of the governing body of the International
Criminal Court, at a time when the Court was only a plan
on paper, with no officials or even an address to its name
and, in three years, oversaw the Court’s growth into the
institution it has now become. He has also been active on other legal issues. He was the first of two UN ambassadors to chair the Ad Hoc Committee on the Scope of Legal Protection under the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel. And in the spring of 2004, he was chosen to be chairman of the ‘Panel of Experts for the UN Secretary-General’s Trust Fund to Assist States in the Settlement of Disputes through the International Court of Justice’, in the matter relating to the boundary dispute between Benin and Niger. Earlier
that year, he was also appointed by his government as Having
served as a political affairs officer in UNPROFOR in the
former Yugoslavia
from February 1994 to February 1996, and having worked
intimately with peacekeeping issues for over the last
decade, Prince Zeid’s knowledge of UN peacekeeping is
also extensive.
Following allegations of widespread abuse being committed by UN peacekeepers in the summer of 2004, he was appointed as ‘Advisor to the Secretary-General on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.’ In
the spring of 2005, he produced a report on this subject;
praised subsequently by international civil society for
having been ‘revolutionary’ in its approach.
It provided, for the first time, a comprehensive
strategy for the elimination of Sexual Exploitation and
Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Operations.
The report was endorsed in full, by the 191 Heads
of State and Government, in September 2005. Prince
Zeid currently chairs the Consultative Committee for the
United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and
has, over the past two years, led an effort to establish
greater strategic direction for the Fund. Born
in His
publications include: ‘A Nightmare Avoided: Prince
Zeid is a member of the Advisory Committee to the
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation.
He is married to Princess Sarah Zeid, and they have
a son and a daughter. ~~~ MaximsNews.com, An Independent Voice from the U.N., provides commentary and analysis from leading world figures: King Abdullah II (Jordan), HRH Prince Zeid Ra'ad Zeid Al-Hussein (Jordan), Sir Brian Urquhart, Hans Blix, Amb. Richard Holbrooke, Anwar Ibrahim, Bianca Jagger, Shashi Tharoor, Kerry Kennedy, Ian Williams, Stephen Schlesinger, Sen. Timothy E. Wirth, Marc Morial, Barbara Crossette, Amb. Pierre Schori (Sweden), Amb. William H. Luers, Mehri Madarshahi, Gloria Feldt, Jeffrey Laurenti, Rodney D. Smith, Rory O'Connor, Genevieve Stamper, Max Stamper and others.
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