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NEW APPOINTMENTS OF UN HUMAN RIGHTS SPECIAL PROCEDURES - SPECIAL
RAPPORTEURS, INDEPENDENT EXPERTS +
The
important letter that follows was written by the President of the UN Human
Rights Council regarding the forthcoming appointments of 19 new Special
Procedures Mandate Holders. The list of new Special Rapporteurs, Independent
Experts, and other Special Procedures, were initially to be appointed at Human
Rights Council Session 25 in March. There were some questions, and now the
Official List of New Special Procedures is presented below. The text has wide
spaces as this is an official document, and the copying process resulted in the
below format.
SPECIAL PROCEDURES OF THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/SP/Pages/Welcomepage.aspx
The special procedures of the Human Rights Council are independent human rights
experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or
country-specific perspective. The system of Special Procedures is a central
element of the United Nations human rights machinery and covers all human
rights: civil, cultural, economic, political, and social. As of 1 October 2013
there are 37 thematic and 14 country mandates.
Organizations,
NGO's, programs, for women's and girls' human rights, issues, social
justice, have long found the UN Special Rapporteurs, Independent Experts +, to
be very significant in our advocacy.
The new
Special Procedures official announcement will be coming in UN media; but
besides UN Member States and the UN Agencies, you will be among the first to
know.
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