Shamsul Bari Explained

Shamsul Bari is the Chairman of Research Initiatives, Bangladesh and a former director of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.[1] He is the vice chairman of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust.[2]

Career

Bari worked as a lawyer in Bangladesh.[3] He also taught at the Universities of Chicago. Bari served at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for 20 years.[4] In 1985, he was the Chief of the General Legal Section of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.[5] In 1989, Bari was the deputy director of the Division of Refugee Law & Doctrine of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.[6]

He founded Research Initiatives, Bangladesh in 2002.[7] from 2002 to 2009, he served in the Netherlands Development Assistance Research Council (RAWOO) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands). He is a director of Legal Action Worldwide.

In 2008, he was appointed the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia. In January 2010, he issued a warning for Puntland and Somalia.[8] [9] He co-chaired the Transparency Advisory Group which was established in 2011.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2015-11-08 . Shamsul Bari . 2023-11-28 . The Daily Star . en.
  2. Web site: Board of Trustees . 2023-11-28 . BLAST . en-US.
  3. Web site: Asian Studies Center :: Events . 2023-11-28 . asia.isp.msu.edu.
  4. Web site: Human Rights in Practice: Dr. Shamsul Bari University of Minnesota Law School . 2023-11-28 . law.umn.edu.
  5. Web site: 1 August 1985 . Voluntary Repatriation EC/SCP/41 . 28 November 2023 . UNHCR.
  6. Web site: 23 August 1989 . Solution to the Refugee Problem and the Protection of Refugees EC/SCP/55 . 28 November 2023 . UNHCR.
  7. Web site: Conference Keynote Speakers and Panelists 18th International Entrepreneurship Conference . 2023-11-28 . ieforums.org.
  8. Web site: 28 January 2010 . The UN Independent Expert on Somalia, Dr. Shamsul Bari, issues a strong warning on the security, human rights and humanitarian situation in the country . 28 November 2023 . Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
  9. Web site: Chronology of Events . 2023-11-28 . UNPOS . en.

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