Javaid Rehman

Javaid Rehman

United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 July 2018
Preceded by	Asma Jahangir^[1]

Personal details
Nationality	Pakistan

Javaid Rehman (born in Faisalabad, Pakistan) is a British-Pakistani legal scholar and Professor of Islamic Law and International Law at Brunel University London.

Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran[]

On 7 July 2018, he was appointed as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran.^[2] On 6 August 2018, Javaid Rehman, wrote to the Iranian Government expressing his interest in visiting Iran. He said he had already received a number of reports raising concerns about alleged violations of human rights in the country. He commenced his duties officially on 13 July 2018.^[3]

References[]

^ "Appointment of UN special rapporteur unacceptable: Larijani". 4 September 2016.
^ "British-Pakistani Appointed UN Special Rapporteur On Human Rights In Iran". Radio Farda. Retrieved 8 July 2018.
^ "OHCHR | New UN human rights expert on Iran seeks cooperation and dialogue with Government". www.ohchr.org. Retrieved 2019-06-28.

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Rehman's CV

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Countries and territories	Burundi (Fatsah Ouguergouz) Cambodia () Haiti (Michel Forst) Myanmar () North Korea (Marzuki Darusman) Palestine () Somalia () Sudan (Mohamed Chande Othman) Iran (Javaid Rehman)
Thematic mandates	Adequate Housing (Raquel Rolnik) Contemporary Forms of Slavery (Gulnara Shahinian) Cultural Rights (Farida Shaheed) Democratic and Equitable International Order (Alfred-Maurice de Zayas) Education () Effects of Economic Reform Policies and Foreign Debt on Human Rights (Cephas Lumina) Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (Agnès Callamard) Right to Food (Hilal Elver) Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association (Annalisa Ciampi) Freedom of Opinion and Expression (Irene Khan) Freedom of Religion or Belief (Ahmed Shaheed) Human Rights Defenders (Margaret Sekaggya) Independence of Judges and Lawyers (Gabriela Carina Knaul de Albuquerque e Silva) Minority Issues () Negative Impact of the Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights (Alena Douhan) Physical and Mental Health (Anand Grover) Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism (Ben Emmerson) Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (Githu Muigai) Right to Food (Hilal Elver) Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children (Najat Maalla M’jid) Torture (Juan E. Méndez) Trafficking in Persons () Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of non-Recurrence () Violence against Women Dubravka Šimonović Human Rights and Access to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation (Catarina de Albuquerque) Human Rights and International Solidarity () Human Rights and the Illicit Movement of Toxic Waste (Călin Georgescu ) Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises (John Ruggie) Human Rights of Indigenous People (James Anaya) Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons () Human Rights of Migrants (François Crépeau) Human Rights and the Environment ()
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