Title / Mandate

Mandate established

Mandate extended

Name & country of origin
of the mandate-holder

in

by

in

by

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi

2004

Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/82
(duration of mandate not specified)

2007

Human Rights Council resolution 9/19

Mr. Akich OKOLA (Kenya)

Special Rapporteur on human rights in Cambodia

1993

Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/6

2008

Human Rights Council resolution 9/15
(for 1 year)

Mr. Surya Prasad Subedi (Nepal)

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

2004

Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/13
(duration of mandate not specified)

2008

Human Rights Council resolution 7/15
(for 1 year)

Mr. Vitit MUNTARBHORN
(Thailand)

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti

1995

Commission on Human Rights resolution 1995/70
(duration of mandate not specified)

2007

Human Rights Council PRST/9/1

Mr. Michel FORST (France)

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar

1992

Commission on Human Rights resolution 1992/58

2008

Human Rights Council resolution 7/32
(for 1 year)

Mr. Tomas Ojea QUINTANA (Argentina)

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

1993

Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/2 A
(“until the end of the Israeli occupation”)

Mr. Richard FALK (United States of America)

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia

1993

Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/86

2008

Human Rights Council resolution 7/35
(for 1 year)

Mr. Shamsul BARI (Bangladesh)

Special Rapporteur on the situation on human rights in the Sudan

2005

Commission on Human Rights resolution
2005/82
(for 1 year)

2007

Human Rights Council resolution 9/17 (for 1 year)

Ms. Sima SAMAR (Afghanistan)