• Panel session 1

Rita Izsák-Ndiaye is a human rights expert from Hungary who has been working with various civil society and multilateral organizations in various countries, including in Somalia and Bosnia and Herzegovia, as well as with the Government of Hungary in the fields of discrimination, racism, minority rights, social inclusion and on other related issues. She is a former UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues (2011-2017) and currently a member and the Rapporteur of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. She is married with two children and is based in Dakar, Senegal.