Global InformationMihir Kanade information
Mihir Kanade | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | India |
| Citizenship | India |
| Alma mater | Nagpur University (LL.B.) University for Peace (MA, PhD) |
| Known for | Right to development |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | International law Human rights and development |
| Institutions | University for Peace United Nations Human Rights Council |
| Thesis | The Multilateral Trading System and Human Rights: A Governance Space Theory on Linkages (2015) |
Mihir Kanade is an author and professor of international law, human rights and development at the University for Peace (UPEACE),[1] a university founded by the United Nations.[2] He holds the concurrent positions of the Academic Coordinator of UPEACE since 2016, the Head of its Department of International Law since 2014, and the Director of the UPEACE Human Rights Centre since 2009.[1]
Kanade is best known for his contribution to the promotion of the human right to development. He chairs the drafting group appointed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Chair-Rapporteur of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development, for preparing the “zero draft” of a legally binding instrument on the right to development.[3][4] On 13 March 2020, Kanade was elected by the United Nations Human Rights Council as a member of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development in representation of the Asia-Pacific region.[5][6] The Human Rights Council renewed his mandate for another three years on 4 April 2023.[7]
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- ^ Draft Convention on the Right to Development, Report of the Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on the Right to Development, Ambassador Zamir Akram, to the United Nations Human Rights Council, A/HRC/WG.2/21/2, 17 January 2020, para. 10.
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