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Rita IZSÁK-NDIAYE is a human rights expert from Hungary. Her main fields of focus are the elimination of racial discrimination and the protection of minorities. She has been inspired by her own experiences of prejudice and discrimination due to her partly Roma origin. Ms. Izsák-Ndiaye holds a master’s in law diploma from the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary. She started her career in the Budapest-based European Roma Rights Center. She later became a Consultant with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Open Society Institute, the Roma Education Fund, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development, and the Center for European Studies. In addition, she worked in Hargeisa, Somaliland with the Somaliland National Youth Organization, and in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe. In addition, she was the Chief of Staff of the Minister of State for Social Inclusion of the Hungarian Ministry of Justice and Public Administration. She was responsible for several key priorities under Hungary’s EU Presidency, including establishing the [https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/combatting-discrimination/roma-eu/roma-equality-inclusion-and-participation-eu/eu-roma-national-integration-strategies-2020_en#:~:text=The%20EU%20Framework%20for%20National%20Roma%20integration%20strategies%20centred%20around,implementation%20of%20the%20EU%20Framework. European Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies]. Between 2011 and 2013, Ms. Izsák-Ndiaye was the President and CEO of the Tom Lantos Institute based in Budapest, Hungary, a research institute on human rights and minority rights. Between 2011 and 2017, she was the [https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Minorities/SRMinorities/Pages/RitaIzsak.aspx#:~:text=Rita%20Izs%C3%A1k%2DNdiaye%20(Hungary)%20was%20appointed%20Independent%20Expert%20on,held%20until%2031%20July%202017. UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues], appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, and guided the work of the UN Forum on Minority Issues. Since 2018, she has been a member and the Rapporteur of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). She is married with two children and is based in Dakar, Senegal.