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 6/5
(for 1 year)

Mr. Akich OKOLA ( Kenya )

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

1993

Commission on Human Rights resolution 1993/6

2005

Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/77
(duration of mandate not specified)

Mr. Yash GHAI( Kenya )

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 appointed by the Secretary-General 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/6/1

Mr. Louis JOINET ( France )

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Liberia

2003

Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/82
(for 3 years)

  2007

Human Rights Council resolution 6/31 (for 1 year)

Ms. Charlotte ABAKA ( Ghana )

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

HumanRights Council resolution 6/34 (for 1 year)

Ms. Sima SAMAR ( Afghanistan )