Minister of Education and Human Resources Vera Duarte of Cape Verde

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A former judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of Cape-Verde from 1990 to 1998, Vera Duarte was previously member of the Superior Council of Magistrature from 1989 to 1990, and General Director of the Department of Studies, Legislation and Documentation at the Ministry of Justice of Cape-Verde from 1982 to 1985.

Vera Duarte was elected to the Commission in 1995 and served as a member of the ICJ's Executive Committee between October 1995 and March 2002.

Currently the co-ordinator of the National Committee of Human Rights, Vera Duarte is also a Counsellor to the President of the Republic of Cape-Verde, the President of the Women Jurists Association of Cape Verde, and a member of the Forum of Lisbon on the Rights of the Person.

A former judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of Cape-Verde from 1990 to 1998, Vera Duarte was previously Director General of Judiciary from 1989 to 1990, and General Director of the Department of Studies, Legislation and Documentation at the Ministry of Justice of Cape-Verde from 1982 to 1985.

A member of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights from 1993 to 1999, Vera Duarte was also a member of the Executive Council of the Centre North-South of the Council of Europe from 1995 until 1997.

Vera Duarte received her LLB from the Classical Lisbon of Lisbon, and completed her Judicial Magistrate Training at the Centre of Judiciary Studies, both in Portugal.