Martin Scheinin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Martin Scheinin
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Nov 4, 1954(1954-11-04)
Age	70
Birthplace	Helsinki
Country	Finland
Birth City	Uusimaa
Horoscope	Scorpio

Martin Scheinin Biography

Martin Scheinin is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 4, 1954 in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland.

Martin Scheinin (born 4 November 1954) was the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism in 2005–2011. He was selected for this position after serving for eight years (1997–2004) as member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the independent expert body monitoring states’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. While on the Committee, he was known as a defendant of the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples and opponent of capital punishment, as well as the drafter of the Committee’s General Comment No. 29 on states of emergency.

He has explained his conversion from a communist to a liberal as learning by the mid-1980s that “liberty is a higher value than equality”. He left party politics in the late 1980s and has since focused entirely in his academic career. He was active in Suomen Demokraattiset Lakimiehet DEMLA (Democratic Lawyers of Finland) and became the association’s chairperson in 1989.

Martin Scheinin Net Worth

Martin Scheinin is one of the richest Politician from Finland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Martin Scheinin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Scheinin was born on 4 November 1954 in Helsinki, Finland to an accomplished upper middle class family. His father was a dentistry researcher and university rector Arje Scheinin. Although Scheinin received a Lutheran upbringing, his father’s Jewish ancestry made him read books on the Holocaust and thus he became interested in human rights. In his youth he was an activist and involved in leftist politics. He was active in the 1970s student radicalism and a central figure in the Marxist-Leninist Turun Akateeminen Sosialistiseura (Academic Socialist Association of Turku)In 1981 he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Finland within the Finnish People’s Democratic League (SKDL) and briefly also worked as the lawyer of the parliamentary group of the Eurocommunist fraction of the Communist Party of Finland. In an interview Scheinin claims that his interest in civil rights partly stemmed from his background as a peace activist and partly from his work for the parliamentary group of Finnish People’s Democratic League.

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Scheinin has worked with the UN on human rights issues since 1997, first as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and from 2005 until 2011 as Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism.

Facts & Trivia

Matti Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Finland. Martin Scheinin celebrates birthday on November 4 of every year.

As Special Rapporteur, Scheinin was a member of the United Nations Counter- Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF) and conducted a number of country visits to assess the counter-terrorism law and practice of countries such as Turkey, South Africa, United States, Israel, Spain, Egypt, Tunisia and Peru. As part of the country missions, he visited prisons and observed terrorism trials, such as the Military Commission hearings in the Salim Hamdan case in Guantanamo Bay and the Jose Padilla and Ahmed Ghailani trials in the United States. The country visits have often resulted in concrete improvements, such as the repeal of a contested Presidential Decree in Peru immediately after the visit in September 2010. As Special Rapporteurs can visit a country only upon the invitation of its government, Scheinin was not able to obtain access to countries such as Pakistan, the Philippines, or the Russian Federation.