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2013 OCTOBER DIRECTORY OF SPECIAL PROCEDURES MANDATE HOLDERS Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a Working Group on arbitrary detention component of the right to an adequate standard of living Mr. Vladimir Tochilovsky Ms. Raquel Rolnik Russian, English English, Spanish [email protected] [email protected] Working Group on the issue of human rights and Working Group on people of African descent transnational corporations and other business Ms. Monorama Biswas enterprises English Mr. Michael K. Addo [email protected] English [email protected] Working Group on people of African descent Ms. Mireille Fanon-Mendes-France Working Group on the issue of human rights and English, French transnational corporations and other business [email protected] enterprises Ms. Alexandra Guáqueta English, Spanish Working Group on people of African descent [email protected] Ms. Mirjana Najcevska English [email protected] Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises Working Group on people of African descent Ms. Margaret Jungk Ms. Maya Sahli English French, Arabic [email protected] [email protected] Working Group on people of African descent Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business Ms. Verene Shepherd enterprises English Mr. Puvan J. Selvanathan [email protected] English [email protected] Working Group on arbitrary detention Mr. Mads Andenas English, French Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business [email protected] enterprises Mr. Pavel Sulyandziga Russian Working Group on arbitrary detention [email protected] Mr. Roberto Garretón French, Spanish [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus Working Group on arbitrary detention Mr. Miklós Haraszti Ms. Shaheen Sardar Ali English [email protected] English [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Working Group on arbitrary detention Cambodia Mr. El Hadji Malick Sow Mr. Surya Prasad Subedi French, English English [email protected] [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child Working group on the issue of discrimination against prostitution and child pornography women in law and in practice Ms. Najat Maalla M'jid Ms. Eleonora Zielińska Arabic, French, English English [email protected] [email protected] Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Working Group on the issue of discrimination against Côte d’Ivoire women in law and practice Mr. Doudou Diène Ms. Patricia Olamendi Torres French, English Spanish, English [email protected] [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Special Rapporteur on the right to education Eritrea Mr. Kishore Singh Ms. Sheila B. Keetharuth English, French English, French [email protected] [email protected] Working Group on enforced or involuntary Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights disappearances Ms. Farida Shaheed Mr. Olivier de Frouville English French, English [email protected] [email protected] Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic Working Group on enforced or involuntary and equitable international order disappearances Mr. Alfred de Zayas Mr. Ariel Dulitzky English, Spanish, French, Russian Spanish, English [email protected] [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Working Group on enforced or involuntary the Democratic People's Republic of Korea disappearances Mr. Marzuki Darusman Ms. Jasminka Dzumhur English English, Russian [email protected] [email protected] Working group on the issue of discrimination against Working Group on enforced or involuntary women in law and in practice disappearances Ms. Emna Aouij Mr. Osman El-Hajje French Arabic, French [email protected] [email protected] Working group on the issue of discrimination against Working Group on enforced or involuntary women in law and in practice disappearances Ms. Kamala Chandrakirana Mr. Jeremy Sarkin English English [email protected] [email protected] Working group on the issue of discrimination against Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or women in law and in practice arbitrary executions Ms. Frances Raday Mr. Christof Heyns English English [email protected] [email protected] Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges rights and lawyers Ms. Maria Magdalena Sepúlveda Ms. Gabriela Knaul Carmona English, Spanish Spanish, English [email protected] [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous Special Rapporteur on the right to food peoples Mr. Olivier De Schutter Mr. James Anaya French, English English, Spanish [email protected] [email protected] Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally Mr. Cephas Lumina displaced persons English Mr. Chaloka Beyani [email protected] English [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Mr. Frank La Rue the Islamic Republic of Iran Spanish, English Mr. Ahmed Shaheed [email protected] English [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Mr. Maina Kiai Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means English of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination [email protected] Ms. Patricia Arias English, Spanish, French Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief [email protected] Mr. Heiner Bielefeldt English [email protected] Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Ms. Elzbieta Karska Haiti English Mr. Gustavo Gallón [email protected] English, French, Spanish [email protected] Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali Mr. Anton Katz Mr. Suliman Baldo English Arabic, French, English [email protected] Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of the right of peoples to self-determination physical and mental health Ms. Faiza Patel Mr. Anand Grover English English [email protected] [email protected] Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means Special Rapporteur on the situation on human rights of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of defenders the right of peoples to self-determination Ms. Margaret Sekaggya Mr. Gabor Rona English English [email protected] [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic Mr. François Crépeau French, English Mr. Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro [email protected] English, French, Spanish [email protected] Independent Expert on minority issues Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection Ms. Rita Izsák of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism English [email protected] Mr. Ben Emmerson English [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, Mr. Tomás Ojea Quintana inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment Spanish, English Mr. Juan Ernesto Méndez [email protected] Spanish, English [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, Mr. Richard Falk reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence English Mr. Pablo de Greiff [email protected] English, Spanish [email protected] Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, intolerance especially women and children Mr. Mutuma Ruteere Ms. Joy Ngozi Ezeilo English English [email protected] [email protected] Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, causes and consequences including its causes and its consequences Ms. Gulnara Shahinian Ms. Rashida Manjoo English English [email protected] [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe Independent Expert on human rights and international drinking water and sanitation solidarity Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque Ms. Virginia Dandan English, French, Spanish English [email protected] [email protected] Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia healthy and sustainable environment Mr. Shamsul Bari Mr. John Knox English English [email protected] [email protected] Special Rapporteur on the implications for human Independent Expert on the situation of human rights rights of the environmentally sound management and in the Sudan disposal of hazardous substances and wastes Mr. Mashood Baderin
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