CURRICULUM VITAE
Personalia:
Name: WATERVAL
First and Middle name: Margo, Margaretha
Place and date of birth: Paramaribo, 18 March 1948
Address: Johan Bodegravenlaan No. 4 telephone: (597) 498020(home)
(597)08514566 (mobile)/ (597) 465558 ext. 408 (work)
Work experience and diplomas
1968
Diploma as Teacher of the Elementary school
1971 – 1972
Diploma Head-teacher in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1978
Diploma teaching English at the secondary school
1968 -1971
Teacher at the Elementary school
1971-1972
Teacher at the Secondary school
1972-2000
Teacher Technical School-III
1998
Graduated from the Anton de Kom University of Suriname as a Lawyer
2000 – 2001
Graduated as Master of Laws (LLM) International Law and Human Rights Law,
American University in Washington DC
2001 – 2002
Official at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Suriname
2001 – 2007
Part-time lecturer in International Law, Anglo-American Law,
Human Rights Law, Diplomatic and Consular Law, International
Humanitarian Law and Tribunals and Human Rights at the Anton de Kom
University of Suriname
2005
Co-chair of a seminar regarding the International Criminal Court,
organized by the Embassy of the Netherlands in cooperation with the European
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Union and the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CARICOM)
2005
Presentation of the role of NGOs in the protection of Human Rights,
organized by Moi Wana, a Human Rights Foundation
2006
Training in Trinidad and Tobago with colleagues of the University of the
West Indies regarding International Humanitarian Law (IHL) organized by the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
2007
Continued training in Barbados regarding courses in International Human Rights Law
2006
Visit with 20 law students to the International Tribunals (ICTY and ICTR) and the
International Criminal Court and participation in a seminar regarding the effectiveness
of the International Tribunals at the University in Utrecht
2006
Visit with 19 law students of the Anton de Kom University of Suriname to Universities
and International Organizations in Washington D.C. and New York
2002 – 2007
Member of the Presidential Commission Legal Experts Human Rights in cases before the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington DC and the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica
2004
Presentation of the Suriname country report at UN Committee on the Elimination of
Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva
2005
Presentation of the Suriname country report regarding the Convention on Civil and
Political Rights before the UN-Human Rights Committee in New York
2006 -2008
Member of the National Commission on Land Rights
2006
Training in Costa Rica regarding the Inter-American Human Rights system
2007
Composing of the Suriname CERD-country report
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2007
Presentation on the Complementary Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
(ICC) for a coalition of Parliamentarians in Paramaribo
2008 -
Full-time lecturer at the Anton de Kom University of Suriname lecturing Human Rights
present
Law, International Humanitarian Law, Diplomatic and Consular Law and Tribunals and
Human Rights Law
2006 -2008
Secretary of the Examination Commission at the Anton de Kom University of
Suriname, Faculty of Social Sciences
2008- 2010
Member of the Examination Commission of the Anton de Kom University of
Suriname
2008
Vice- chair of the Institute of Children’s Rights at the Anton de Kom University of
Suriname
2008
Supervisor of (8) students to participate in TEIMUN (the
International European Model United Nations) in The Hague, Netherlands
2008
Member of the delegation to present the country report of Suriname to the Committee
on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva, Switzerland
2009
Chair of the National Commission Moot Court Competition (MCC) regarding the Inter
American Human Rights system
2010
Presentation on the implementation of the Moiwana judgment at the Inter-American
Court on Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica
2010
Chair of the Election Commission for the Youth Parliament in Suriname
2010
Lecturer in Human Rights law for Judges in training (Raio’s)
2011
Member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
2011
Presentation on the CARICOM and Human Rights in Barbados
2012
Presentation on Minority Rights at the Ford Foundation in New York
2012
One of the Presidents of Judges during the Moot Court Competition at the American
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University
2013
Vice-President of the United Nations Human Rights Committee
Social activities
Past President of the Lions Club Paramaribo Ready
Member of the Chapel of the Diakonessen Hospital
Former Chair of the Board of the Suriname Foundation Amazon Conservation Team (working with
Indigenous and Maroons with regard to the conservation of their culture, biodiversity and health)
2008 Treasurer of the Diakonaal Overbruggings Fonds, a foundation for the support of AIDS-patients
and others who are unable to pay for their medicines.
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