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IRCT membership elects new Council
22 March 2016
The IRCT is pleased to announce that its members have elected a new IRCT Council for the period 2016-2019. The Council’s mandate became effective as of 16 March 2016.

The Council consists of 29 members elected based on regions and the respective quotas, as well as three independent experts. All seven regions are represented with seven members from Europe and four each from Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. Centres in MENA elected three members while North America and the Pacific elected two members each. The three independent experts are from Germany, Nigeria and Sri Lanka.

This is the fifth time that the General Assembly of the IRCT, in which each member has one vote, carries out elections to designate the representatives before the Council.

“This is an exercise of extraordinary importance, which is testament to the maturity of the organisation, and it underscores the IRCT’s commitment to its core values of democracy, cultural diversity and mutual respect, and rule of law,” says IRCT Secretary General, Victor Madrigal-Borloz…

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