Cephas Lumina is a

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n lawyer and

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expert. From 2008 to 2014 he was the " United Nations Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights", appointed by the

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. He was succeeded by the Argentine lawyer Juan Pablo Bohovslavsky. He holds an

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with Merit (Zambia), an

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in International Human Rights Law (

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), a PhD in International Human Rights Law (

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, Australia), and an Advanced Diploma in International Human Rights (

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, Finland). He is an Advocate of the High Court for Zambia and an Extra-Ordinary Professor of Human Rights Law at the

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, and has served as a visiting professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at

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in Uganda and as a consultant to the

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, the International Development Law Organization, the

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, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the

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, the

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, Women for Change and the

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. He has written and lectured on human rights, humanitarian law, commercial law and legal education. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the ''International Human Rights Law Review'' and ''African Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law''.

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