Rita Izsák-Ndiaye
In 2018, Rita Izsák-Ndiaye began a four-year term as a member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Prior to this, Ms. Izsák-Ndiaye served as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on minority issues from 2014-2017 and was appointed an Independent Expert on minority issues by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2011.
Ms. Izsák-Ndiaye holds a Masters in Law degree from the Péter Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary. Inspired by her own experiences of prejudice and discrimination — her father’s family was forcibly moved under postwar population transfers from Czechoslovakia to Hungary due to their Hungarian ethnicity in 1947 and her mother is of Romani origin — she has been working on human and minority rights since her university years.