Rita Izsák-Ndiaye
Hungarian diplomat (born 1980)
Rita Izsák-Ndiaye (born 1980 in Szekszárd, Hungary) is a Hungarian human rights expert and diplomat. She has worked on human, minority and youth rights in various NGOs, the Hungarian Government and with international organizations. She served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on minority issues between 2011 and 2017, as well as member and Rapporteur of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination from 2018 to 2022. In 2021 and 2022, she was the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office on Children and Security. As of autumn 2022, she is Senior Adviser on Anti-Racism at the United Nations Development Programme.
Early life and career
Izsák-Ndiaye's mother is of Romani origin and her father's family was forcibly transferred in 1947 from Czechoslovakia, currently Slovakia, to Hungary under population transfers after World War II because of their Hungarian ethnicity. Since her university years, Izsák-Ndiaye worked on minority and human rights inspired by her family's and her own experiences with discrimination. She obtained a Master of Laws degree at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary.
Izsák-Ndiaye started her international career at the European Roma Rights Centre in Hungary, then she became a Consultant of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Later, Izsák-Ndiaye worked in Hargeisa, Somalia, as a youth rights advisor and in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a human rights officer with OSCE. In 2010, she became Chief of Staff of the Social Inclusion Secretariat of the Hungarian Ministry of Justice and Public Administration and she coordinated the successful adoption of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies.
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