Title / Mandate |
Mandate established |
Mandate extended |
Name & country of origin of the
mandate-holder(s) |
in |
by |
in |
by |
Special Rapporteur on adequate
housing as a component of the right to an
adequate standard of living |
2000 |
resolution 2000/9 |
2003 |
resolution 2003/27 (for 3
years) |
Mr. Miloon KOTHARI
(India) |
Working Group on people of African
descent |
2002 |
resolution 2002/68 |
2003 |
resolution 2003/30 (for 3
years) |
Chairperson-Rapporteur :
- Mr. Peter Lesa KASANDA
(Zambia)
- Mr. Joe FRANS
(Sweden) Mr.
George N. JABBOUR (Syrian
Arab Republic)
- Ms. Irina ZLATESCU
(Romania)
|
Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention |
1991 |
resolution 1991/42 |
2003 |
resolution 2003/31 (for 3
years) |
Chairperson-Rapporteur :
- Ms. Leila ZERROUGUI (Algeria)
- Mr. Tamás
BÁN
(Hungary)
- Ms. Manuela Carmena CASTRILLO
(Spain)
- Mr. Seyyed Mohammad
HASHEMI
(Islamic Republic
of Iran)
- Ms. Soledad VILLAGRA DE BIEDERMANN
(Paraguay)
|
Special Rapporteur on the sale
of children, child prostitution and child
pornography |
1990 |
resolution 1990/68 |
2004 |
ECOSOC decision 2004/285 (for 3
years) |
Mr. Juan Miguel PETIT
(Uruguay) |
Special Rapporteur on the right to education |
1998 |
resolution 1998/33 |
2004 |
resolution 2004/25 (for 3
years) |
Mr. Vernor MUŃOZ VILLALOBOS
(Costa Rica) |
Working Group on Enforced
or Involuntary Disappearances |
1980 |
resolution 20 (XXXVI) |
2004 |
resolution 2004/40 (for 3
years) |
Chairperson-Rapporteur :
- Mr. Stephen J. TOOPE
(Canada)
- Mr. Joel ADEBAYO ADEKANYE
(Nigeria)
- Mr. Santiago CORCUERA CABEZUT
(Mexico)
- Mr. Darko GÖTTLICHER (
Croatia )
- Mr. Saeed Rajaee KHORASANI (Islamic
Republic of Iran)
|
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial,
summary or arbitrary executions |
1982 |
resolution 1982/35 |
2004 |
resolution 2004/37 (for 3
years) |
Mr. Philip ALSTON
(Australia) |
Independent Expert on the question of human rights and
extreme
poverty |
1998 |
resolution 1998/25 |
2004 |
resolution 2004/23 (for 2
years) |
Mr. Arjun SENGUPTA
(India) |
Special Rapporteur on the right to food |
2000 |
resolution 2000/10 |
2003 |
resolution 2003/25 (for 3
years) |
Mr. Jean ZIEGLER
(Switzerland) |
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the
right to freedom
of opinion and expression |
1993 |
resolution 1993/45 |
2005 |
resolution 2005/38
(for 3 years) |
Mr. Ambeyi LIGABO
(Kenya) |
Special Rapporteur on freedom
of religion or belief |
1986 |
resolution 1986/20 |
2004 |
resolution 2004/36 (for 3
years) |
Ms. Asma JAHANGIR (
Pakistan ) |
Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the
enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and
mental health |
2002 |
resolution 2002/31 (for 3 years)
|
2005 |
Resolution 2005/24
(for 3 years) |
Mr. Paul HUNT (New
Zealand)
|
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the
situation of human
rights defenders |
2000 |
resolution 2000/61 |
2003 |
resolution 2003/64 (for 3
years) |
Ms. Hina JILANI
(Pakistan) |
Special Rapporteur on the independence
of judges and lawyers |
1994 |
resolution 1994/41 |
2003 |
resolution 2003/43 (for 3
years) |
Mr. Leandro
DESPOUY (Argentina) |
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and
fundamental freedoms of indigenous
people |
2001 |
resolution 2001/57 |
2004 |
resolution 2004/62 (for 3 years)
|
Mr. Rodolfo
STAVENHAGEN (Mexico) |
Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights
of internally
displaced persons |
2004 |
resolution 2004/55 (for 2
years) |
|
|
Mr. Walter Kälin
(Switzerland) |
Working Group on the use of mercenaries
as a means of impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to
self-determination |
2005 |
resolution 2005/2 (for 3
years) |
|
|
|
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants |
1999 |
resolution 1999/44 |
2005 |
resolution 2005/47 (for 3
years) |
Mr. Jorge A. BUSTAMANTE
(Mexico) |
Independent Expert on minority
issues |
2005 |
Resolution 2005/79 (2 years) |
|
|
Ms. Gay MCDOUGALL (United States
of America) |
Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism,
racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
|
1993 |
resolution 1993/20 |
2005 |
Resolution 2005/64 (for 3 years) |
Mr. Doudou DIČNE
(Senegal) |
Independent Expert on human rights and international
solidarity |
2005
|
Resolution 2005/55 (for 3 years)
|
|
|
Mr. Rudi Muhammad RIZKI
(Indonesia) |
Independent expert on the
effects of economic reform policies and foreign debt on the
full enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic, social
and cultural rights |
2000 |
resolution 2000/82 |
2003 |
resolution 2003/21 (for 3
years) |
Mr. Bernards Andrew NYAMWAYA MUDHO
(Kenya) |
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human
rights while countering terrorism |
2005 |
resolution 2005/80 (for 3
years) |
|
|
Mr. Martin SCHEININ
(Finland) |
Special Rapporteur on torture
and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
|
1985 |
resolution 1985/33 |
2004 |
resolution 2004/41 (for 3
years) |
Mr. Manfred Nowak
(Austria) |
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 |
1995 |
resolution 1995/81 |
2004 |
resolution 2004/17 (for 3
years) |
Mr. Okechukwu
IBEANU (Nigeria) |
Special Rapporteur on trafficking
in persons, especially in women and children
|
2004 |
resolution 2004/110 (for 3
years) |
|
|
Ms. Sigma HUDA
(Bangladesh) |
Special Representative of the SG on human rights and
transnational
corporations and other business enterprises
|
2005 |
resolution 2005/69 (for 2 years)
|
|
|
Mr. John Ruggie (United
States of America) |
Special Rapporteur on violence against women,
its causes and consequences |
1994 |
resolution 1994/45 |
2003 |
resolution 2003/45 (for 3
years) |
Ms. Yakin ERTÜRK
(Turkey) |