Ella Pamfilova

Ella Pamfilova Alexandrovna (Russian Элла Александровна Памфилова, scientific transliteration Ella Aleksandrovna Pamfilova; born September 12, 1953 in Tashkent, Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Russian politician.

She was from July 2002 to July 2010 First President of the Human Rights Commission, then, founded by then-President Vladimir Putin Human Rights Council at the Russian president. Since March 2014, it is a human rights officer in Russia.

Life

Ella Pamfilova was born in Tashkent and studied from 1970 to 1976 Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the Institute of Energy Economics Moscow.

Political career

After graduation, was Ella Pamfilova 1976-1989 Master and process engineer and chairman of the union committee in the power company Mosenergo. During perestroika in 1985 she was a member of the CPSU. Since 1990 Pamfilova is no party. From 1989 to 1991 she was a primary delegate and member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in the Committee on Environment and natural resources management and the Commission to fight corruption. Under Boris Yeltsin Pamfilova held in the years 1991 to 1994, the Office of the Minister for Social Welfare of the Russian Federation. Pamfilova was elected deputies in the State Duma of the Kaluga region and 1994 Chairman of the Public Council on Social Policy of the President of the Russian Federation in 1993. Since 1996 she is head of the NGO " For a healthy Russia". In 1999, she was voted out of the State Duma. 2000 candidate Ella Pamfilova the first woman in the history of Russia for president and received 1.01 percent of the vote. In April of the same year became a member of the Public Pamfilova independent commission to investigate crimes and to protect human rights in the North Caucasus. In July 2002, her appointment as President of the Human Rights Commission was the President of the Russian Federation.

Chairman of the Council Panel on human rights and development of civil society

From November 2004 to July 30, 2010 Ella Pamfilova was chairman of the company founded by the then President Vladimir Putin Council Panel on human rights and development of civil society. Pamfilova lay down again and again with pro-government forces and criticized with sharp words, the supporters of the United Russia party of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Most recently, she criticized the Putin - loyal youth organization Nashi, which had pictures with the heads of human rights defenders and government critics symbolic impaled at a summer camp on Lake Seliger on piles and these forces criticized as traitors of Russia.

After her resignation said Ella Pamfilova, no one had they urged. My resignation was, however, exactly one day after the entry into force of the controversial law to extend the power of the domestic intelligence agency, the now can officially issue warnings upon mere suspicion of a possible crime. Pamfilova had President Medvedev asked in June not to expand the rights of the FSB.

2014, it was proposed by President Putin for the Office of the Human Rights Commissioner and approved by the State Duma.

Family

Ella Pamfilova is divorced. She has a daughter ( Tatiana, born 1977 ) and a granddaughter ( Irina, born 1999).