CURRICULUM VITAE Abubakarr Siddique Kabbah P.O. Box 3482, Serrekunda, The Gambia E-mail: jaiteh.kabbah@hotmail.com Cell phone: +220 7840650/9840650 range of legal issues affecting women that would be a resource for law reformers, policy makers, NGOs as well as academic and other data users CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS I have participated in various academic and professional meetings including the following: 11/2007: I attended the Meeting of the Open-Ended Inter-Governmental Group of Experts (IGGE) on Revising the Charter of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 09/2007: I attended the Meeting of the Open-Ended Inter-Governmental Group of Experts (IGGE) on Revising the Charter of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 02/2004: I lectured about the African human rights system on the Master of Laws (LLM) in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa course - Centre for Human Rights, The University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa th
11/2003: I attended the 34 Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights - Banjul, The Gambia 09/2003: I attended the Meeting of NGO partners of the African Civil Society NEPAD Review Network - Institute for Security Studies (ISS) - Pretoria, South Africa rd
05/2003: I attended the 33 Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights - Niamey, Niger nd
10/2002: I attended the 32 Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights - Banjul, The Gambia 09/2002: I taught the international protection of human rights (overview of the United Nations, as well as the African regional, system of human rights protection) at the UNITAR seminar “Training on diplomatic practice for government officials from the Republic of The Gambia” - Module II: International Law” - Banjul, The Gambia st
05/2002: I attended the 31 Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights - Pretoria, South Africa 05/2002: I chaired the Human Rights Training Workshop organised by the Swedish and Kenyan st Sections of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), which preceded the 31 Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights - Pretoria, South Africa th
10/1998: I attended the 24 Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and NGO Forum - Banjul, The Gambia 07/1998: I attended the National Awareness Raising Materials Production Workshop - National Commission for Democracy and Human Rights in collaboration with The UNDP - Freetown, Sierra Leone
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