Comite Des Nations Unies Des Droits De L’Enfant

UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD

Election of 25 June 2014

Application of Mr Bernard GASTAUD (Monaco)

Curriculum Vitae

Name and first name: GASTAUD Bernard

Date and place of birth: 10 January 1946, Principality of Monaco

Working languages: French (mother tongue), English (written and spoken), Arabic (notions).

Current position/function :

- Member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, since 2011 ;

- Observer to the World Association of Children’s Friends (AMADE), chaired by H.R.H. Princess of Hanover.

Professional activities :

- Consultant to the Department of International Affairs and Cooperation (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Principality of Monaco) ;

- Member of the Committee of legal advisers on Public International Law of the Council of Europe (CAHDI) ;

- Conciliator to the Court of conciliation and arbitration of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

Education :

- Masters degree of Arts (Nice, France) ; - Masters degree in law (Nice, France) ; - Doctorate in law (Nice, France).

1 Other activities related to the mandate of the Committee on the rights of the child

Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center of the rights of the child at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium).

Recent publications and presentations on the rights of the child

1. « Le renforcement de la coopération entre les organes chargés de mettre en œuvre les mécanismes de suivi du Conseil de l’Europe et de l’Organisation des Nations Unies », Statement delivered at the Conference of the Council of Europe «Building a child- friendly Europe : turning a vision into reality », Monaco, 21 November 2011, during a round table on « Find missing pieces : evaluate the implementation of children’s rights». Statement available on the Council of Europe website : http://www.coe.int/t/dg3/children/strategyconferencemonaco/Speeches_fr.asp

2. « La collecte des données et la justice juvénile », Statement delivered during the 6th Forum on the rights of the child (Brussels, Belgium, 23 November 2011). Text published in Revue de Droit Monégasque n°12, 2013, pages 109 to 118 and available on the International Juvenile Justice Observatory (OIJJ) website : http://www.oijj.org/fr/docs/rapport/6eme-forum-relatif-aux-droits-de-l-enfant-la- collecte-des-donnees-et-la-justice-juvenil

3. « La Convention relative aux droits de l'enfant et l'ombudsman des enfants », Contribution to the collective work published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the General Delegate of the French Community rights of the child, Brussels, Belgium, 2012.

4. « Le Comité des Nations Unies des droits de l’enfant et la Convention des Nations Unies relative aux droits de l’enfant », Statement, Montesori Model United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 6 June 2013.

5. « The impact of migrations on the child rights », 17th annual Conference of E.N.O.C. (European Network of Ombudspersons for Children), Brussels, 25 September 2013. Statement available on the E.N.O.C. website.

6. « Le droit au jeu est il un droit mineur ? », Journal du droit des Jeunes, belgian edition, n°328, October 2013, page 31.

2 7. « Introduction générale : Responsabilités et solidarités », Statement delivered during the high level symposium « Comparative views on the implementation of the UN Convention on the rights of the child after two decades of experience in the North and the South of the Mediterranean», Monaco, 21 November 2013, Revue de Droit Monégasque, Special edition, 2014.

8. « What are children rights in the context of children working and/or living on the street? », Round table organised by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Singapore, 10 and 11 December 2013, Unpublished statement.

9. « Le Comité des Nations Unies des droits de l'enfant : dualité et singularité des missions », Revue de Droit Monégasque n°13, 2014 (to be published).

10. « L'éducation aux droits de l'enfant », Journal du droit des Jeunes, belgian edition, 2014 (to be published).