WUNRN
Full Press Release: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16562&LangID=E – 2 October 2015
UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ADOPTS TWO RESOLUTIONS, APPOINTS MANDATE HOLDERS, & CLOSES 30th COUNCIL SESSION
As for the Special Procedures, the Council
appointed Karima Bennoune (United States) as Special Rapporteur in the field of
cultural rights; Ahmed Reid (Jamaica) as a member of the Working Group of
Experts on People of African Descent from Latin American and Caribbean States;
and Henrikas Mickevicius (Lithuania) as a member of the Working Group on
Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances from Eastern European States.
Website on the Mandate of the UN
Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/CulturalRights/Pages/MandateInfo.aspx
WUNRN joins Women’s Learning Partnership in CONGRATULATIONS
to our colleague Karima Bennoune in her new UN Special Rapporteur appointment.
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