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Office of the United Nations

High Commissioner for Human Rights

Table prepared by the Commission/Sub-Commission Team

of the Support Services Branch

(Last updated: 15 February 2002)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

 

 

COUNTRY MANDATES LISTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

Title/Mandate

 Established in

1.   Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan 

        (Mr. Kamal Hossain, Bangladesh)

1984

2.   Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

        (Mr. Maurice Copithorne, Canada)

1984

3.   Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iraq

       (Mr. Andreas Mavrommatis, Cyprus)

1991

4.   Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar

       (Mr. Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Brazil)

1992

5.   Special Representative of the Secretary-General for human rights in Cambodia

        (Mr. Peter Leuprecht, Austria)

1993

6.    Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967

        (Mr. John Dugard, South Africa)

1993

7.   Independent Expert appointed by the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Somalia

        (Mr. Ghanim Alnajjar, Kuwait)

1993

8.   Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Sudan

       (Mr. Gerhart R. Baum, Germany)

1993

9.  Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo

       (Ms. Iulia-Antoanella Motoc, Romania)

1994

10.  Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burundi 

        (Ms. Marie-Thérèse Aïssata Kéita-Bocoum, Côte d’Ivoire)

1995

11.   Independent Expert appointed by the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Haiti 

          (To be appointed by the Secretary-General following the resignation of Mr. Adama Dieng (Senegal) on 1 March 2001)

1995

12.   Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Equatorial Guinea* 

         (Mr. Gustavo Gallón, Colombia)

        ___________

         *  1993-1999: Special Rapporteur

1999

13.   Special Representative of the Commission with a mandate to examine the situation of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina and

        the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia*

          (Mr. José Cutileiro, Portugal)

       __________

       * 1992-2001:  Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

2001

 

 

 

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

THEMATIC MANDATES LISTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER

 


13.  Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment

       of human rights

         (Ms. Fatma Zohra Ouhachi-Vesely,  Algeria)

Title/Mandate

Established in

1.   Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

       (Mr. Diego García‑Sayán, Peru, Chairperson‑Rapporteur; Mr. Joel Adebayo Adekanye,  Nigeria; Mr. Ivan Tosevski, The formerYugoslav Republic of Macedonia;

       Mr. Tan Sri Dato Anuar Zainal Abidin, Malaysia;  Member from the Western Group to be nominated following the resignation of Mr. Manfred Nowak, Austria)    

1980

2.   Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions

       (Ms. Asma Jahangir, Pakistan)

1982

3.   Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment

        (Mr. Theo C. van Boven, Netherlands)

1985

4.   Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief*

        (Mr. Abdelfattah Amor, Tunisia)

      __________

      * 1986-2001: Special Rapporteur on the question of religious intolerance

1986

5.   Special Rapporteur on the use of mercenaries as a means of impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination

       (Mr. Enrique Bernales Ballesteros, Peru)

1987

6.   Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography

       (Mr. Juan Miguel Petit, Uruguay)

1990

7.   Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

        (Mr. Louis Joinet, France, Chairperson-Rapporteur; Mr. Tamás Bán, Hungary; Ms. Soledad Villagra de Biedermann, Paraguay; Ms. Leila Zerrougui, Algeria; Member from the Asian Group to be            nominated following the resignation of Mr. Kapil Sibal, India)

1991

8.   Representative of the Secretary-General on internally displaced persons

       (Mr. Francis Deng, Sudan)

1992

9.   Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance

       (Mr. Maurice Glèlè-Ahanhanzo, Benin)

1993

10.  Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression

        (Mr. Abid Hussain, India)

1993

11.  Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers

        (Mr. Param Cumaraswamy, Malaysia)

1994

12.  Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences

        (Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka)

1994

13. Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights
(Ms. Fatma Zohra Ouhachi-Vesely, Algeria)

1995

14.  Independent Expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty

         (Ms. Anne-Marie Lizin, Belgium)

1998

15.  Independent Expert on the right to development

         (Mr. Arjun Sengupta, India)

1998

16.  Special Rapporteur on the right to education

         (Ms. Katarina Tomaševski, Croatia)

1998

17.  Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants

         (Ms. Gabriela Rodríguez Pizarro, Costa Rica)

1999

18.  Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living

         (Mr. Miloon Kothari, India)

2000

19.  Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders

         (Ms. Hina Jilani, Pakistan)

2000

20.  Special Rapporteur on the right to food

         (Mr. Jean Ziegler, Switzerland)

2000

21.  Independent Expert on the effects of structural adjustment policies and foreign debt*

         (Mr. Bernards Andrew Nyamwaya Mudho, Kenya)

__________

* 1998-2000: Independent Expert on structural adjustment policies

2000

22.  Independent Expert to examine the question of a draft optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

         (Mr. Hatem Kotrane, Tunisia)

2001

23.   Independent Expert to examine the existing international criminal and human rights framework for the protection of persons from enforced or involuntary disappearance

          (Mr. Manfred Nowak, Austria)

2001

24.   Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people

        (Mr. Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Mexico)

 

2001

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