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Title/Mandate
Mandate established
Mandate extended or renewed
Name.and.country.of origin of the current Special Rapporteur/ Representative/ Independent Expert
On this post since
in
by resolution
in
by resolution
Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan
1984
ECOSOC 1984/37
2001
CHR 2002/19
(for 3 years)
Vacant
1998

Special Representative of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia*

_________
* 1992-2001:
Special Rapporteur

2001

CHR 2001/12 (for 1 year) 

  .
res. 2002/13
(for 1 year)
Mr. José Cutileiro
(Portugal)
2001
Discontinued in 2003
Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Burundi
1995
CHR 1995/90
(for 1 year)
2003
CHR.2003/16
(for 1 year)
Ms. Marie-Thérèse Aïssata Kéita- Bocoum
(Côte d' Ivoire)
1999
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Cambodia
1993
CHR 1993/6
(Duration of the mandate not specified)
1995 
CHR 1995/55
(Duration of the mandate not specified)
Mr. Peter Leuprecht
(Austria)
2000
Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (ex-Zaire)
1994
CHR 1994/87 (for 1 year) 
2003
CHR 2003/15 (for 3 years)

Ms. Iulia-Antoanella Motoc (Romania)

2001
Independent Expert appointed by the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Haiti
1995
CHR 1995/70 (Duration of the mandate not specified)
..
Continuing mandate

Mr. Louis Joinet
(France)

2002
Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Iraq
1991 
CHR
1991/74
2003

CHR 2003/84 (for 1 year) 

Mr. Andreas Mavrommatis (Cyprus)
1999
Independent Expert on technical cooperation and advisory services in Liberia 2003

CHR
2003/82

.

CHR 2003/82 (for 3 years)

Ms. Charlotte Abaka (Ghana)

2003

Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
1992
CHR
1992/58
2003
CHR 2003/12 (for 3 years)
Mr. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro
(Brazil)
2000
Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
1993
CHR
1993/2 A
.
Mandate runs until the end of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
Mr. John Dugard
(South Africa)
2001
Independent Expert appointed by the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Somalia
1993
CHR
1993/86
2003
CHR 2003/78
(for 3 years)
Mr. Ghanim Alnajjar
(Kuwait)
2001

Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Sudan

1993
CHR
1993/60
2001
CHR 2002/16
(for 1 year)
Mr. Gerhard Baum
(Germany)
2000
Discontinued in 2003

Mandates that have been recently discontinued:

> Equatorial Guinea (1979-2002)
> Guatemala (1982-1996)
> Islamic Republic of Iran (1984-2002)
> Nigeria (1997-1999)
> Rwanda (1994-2001)
> South Eastern Europe - Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (2001-2003)
> Sudan (1993-2003)
> Territory of the former Yugoslavia (1992-2001)


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