Mr. Yuri A. Boychenko

Nationality: Russian Federation

Occupation: Head of Division, Department on Compatriot Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

UNPFII Portfolio:Finance and Budget, Culture, Methods of Work, Data and Statistics

EDUCATION

Graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Faculty of International Law. Field of studies: international public and private law, constitutional law, international economic relations, political economy, philosophy.
Currently conducting post-graduate research studies (Ph.D. in International law) at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Federation.

Attaché, Third secretary, Department on Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, 1989 to 1992
Third, Second and First secretary of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva from 1992 to 1997
Head of Division, Department on Compatriot Affairs and Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, 1997 to present

Participation in the UN Comission on Human Rights from 1992 to 2002
Participation in the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, 1993 to 2001
Participation in the Working Group on a Draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 1995 to 2002
Participation in the Working Group on the Establishment of a UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 1997 to 2000
Participation in the World conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, 2000
Member of the delegation of the Russian Federation at various UN Working Group on the elaboration of major human rights documents.
Former member of the Russian Organizational Committee on the UN Decade of Indigenous Peoples.

Author of a number of articles on international law and human rights issues, including on indigenous issues (international mechanisms for the protection of the rights of indigenous peoples etc.