Title / Mandate

Mandate established

Mandate extended

Name & country of origin
of the mandate-holder

in

by

in

by

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus

2004

resolution 2004/14
(duration of mandate not specified)

2005

Resolution 2005/13
(for 1 year)

Mr. Adrian SEVERIN ( Romania )

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi

2004

resolution 2004/82
(duration of mandate not specified)

2005

Resolution 2005/75
(for 1 year)

Mr. Akich OKOLA ( Kenya )

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

1993

resolution 1993/6

2005

resolution 2005/77
(duration of mandate not specified)

Mr. Yash Ghai ( Kenya )

Personal Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Cuba

2002

resolution 2002/18
(duration of mandate not specified)

Ms. Christine CHANET ( France )

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

2004

resolution 2004/13
(duration of mandate not specified)

2005

Resolution 2005/11
(for 1 year)

Mr. Vitit MUNTARBHORN
( Thailand )

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

2004

resolution 2004/84
(duration of mandate not specified)

2005

Resolution 2005/85
(for 1 year)

Mr. Titinga Frédéric PACÉRÉ
( Burkina Faso )

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

1995

resolution 1995/70
(duration of mandate not specified)

Mr. Louis JOINET ( France )

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Liberia

2003

resolution 2003/82
(for 3 years)

Ms. Charlotte ABAKA ( Ghana )

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar

1992

resolution 1992/58

2005

Resolution 2005/10
(for 1 year)

Mr. Paulo Sérgio PINHEIRO (Brazil)

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

1993

resolution 1993/2 A
(“until the end of the Israeli occupation”)

Mr. John DUGARD ( South Africa )

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

1993

resolution 1993/86

2005

Resolution 2005/83
(for 1 year)

Mr. Ghanim ALNAJJAR( Kuwait )

Special Rapporteur on the situation on human rights in the Sudan

2005

resolution
2005/82
(for 1 year)

Ms. Sima SAMAR( Afghanistan )

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Uzbekistan (1503 procedure)

2005

resolution
2005/R.5
(for 1 year)

Ms. Michèle PICARD ( France )