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Michel Forst is the current United Nations Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. He is also the Secretary general of the French national human rights institution. == Career == After graduating in language, theology and health studies, Michel Forst started his career teaching German. Then, he started as director of social healthcare institutions in the field of childcare, the elderly and those in extreme-poverty. He became the executive director of Amnesty International-France in 1989, where he remained for ten years. During this period, he was involved in many human rights projects, in particular in the organisation of the first summit on human rights defenders in Paris in 1998. This event was held as the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 1999, he became the executive director of La Ligue contre le cancer (The French league against cancer). He stayed in this organisation until 2001 when he started at the UNESCO as chief of states in the field of social sciences and humanities. He became secretary general of Cimade in 2003, a French organisation specialized in helping migrants and asylum seekers. He left the structure in 2005 to become the Secretary general of the French national human rights institution. Michel Forst is also a funding member of Front Line Defenders, an Irish non governmental organisation based in Dublin and a former member of the Board of the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michel Forst」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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