Datasheet on the candidates postulating for organs created by virtue of international instruments relative to human rights
Name and First name :
GASTAUD Bernard.
Date and place of birth :
10th january 1946, in Monaco (Principality of Monaco).
Working languages:
French, native language, English written and spoken, notions of Arabic.
Position:
- Legal Adviser for legal and international affairs to the Department of External Relations (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Principality of Monaco).
Main occupations:
- Analysis of the international conventions prior to incorporation into the law and order of the Principality of Monaco and contribution to the elaboration of legislation and regulation in order to implement the international law.
- Co-author and coordinator of the periodic reports of the Principality of Monaco submitted to the various committees.
- Member of the Monegasque delegation during the examinationof the periodic report of the Principality of Monaco:
o Committee Against Torture, 5th and 6th May 2004,
o Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 2nd and 3rd May 2006,
o Human Right Committee, 14th and 15th October 2008,
o Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 15th and 16th February 2010,
o Universal Periodic Review (EPU), Human Rights Council, 4th May 2009.
- Head of delegation:
o Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols, Vienna, from 9 till 18 October 2006,
o Open-ended intergovernmental meeting of experts on possible mechanisms to review implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and the Protocols thereto, Vienna, from 28 till 30 September 2009.
- Member of the Committee of legal advisers on public international law (C.A.D.H.I.), Council of Europe, since march 2005, Strasbourg.
Education:
Bachelor of Arts (Nice, France); Master degree of Arts (Nice).
Bachelor in law (Nice); Master degree in law (Nice); Doctorate in law (Nice).
Activities:
Member of the World Association of Children's Friends (A.M.A.D.E.) which is a non-profit child-advocacy NGO. It was founded in 1963 by HSH Princess Grace of Monaco to seek the promotion and protection of the rights of the child worldwide. Nowadays, it is chaired by H.R.H. The Princess of Hanover.
Manager within “Association Sportive de Monaco”, sport association which is taking part to sport development of the children and the adolescents.
Publication :
Member of the management Committee of “Revue de Droit Monégasque”.
He cooperates with Lexis Nexis company, French company in charge of publishing the Monegasque legislation and regulation.