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Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rightsOverview of the mandate At its fifty-first session, the Commission on Human Rights, aware of the growing practice of the dumping in Africa and other developing countries by transnational corporations and other enterprises from industrialized countries of hazardous and other wastes, adopted resolution 1995/81 in which it noted with grave concern that the increasing rate of illicit dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes in developing countries continues adversely to affect the human rights to life and health of individuals in those countries, and decided to appoint, for a three-year period, a Special Rapporteur with a mandate to: (a) Investigate and examine the effects of the illicit dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes in African and other developing countries on the enjoyment of human rights, in particular on the human rights to life and health of everyone; (b) Investigate, monitor, examine and receive communications and gather information on the illicit traffic and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes in African and other developing countries; (c) Make recommendations and proposals on adequate measures to control, reduce and eradicate the illicit traffic in, transfer to and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes in African and other developing countries; (d) Produce annually a list of the countries and transnational corporations engaged in the illicit dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes in African and other developing countries and a census of human persons killed, maimed or otherwise injured in the developing countries through this heinous act. The Special Rapporteur was further requested to submit her/his findings, including the list of the countries and transnational corporations engaged in the illicit dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes in African and other developing countries to the Commission on Human Rights at its following sessions. In addition, the Commission on Human Rights issued the following resolutions regarding the mandate of the Special Rapporteur:
The mandate was extended for a period of three years by the Commission on Human Rights resolution 2004/17. The Commission on Human Rights was replaced by the Human Rights Council by the General Assembly Resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006. The Human Rights Council extended all the mandates by its resolution 5/1.
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