United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is a United Nations special rapporteur. The office is currently filled by Nils Melzer, previously Manfred Nowak.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References[]

^ Sifris, Ronli (13 December 2013). Reproductive Freedom, Torture and International Human Rights: Challenging the Masculinisation of Torture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-11522-7.
^ "Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment – International Justice Resource Center". Ijrcenter.org. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
^ "Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". OHCHR. Retrieved 2021-05-10.

External links[]

Official website

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Countries and territories	Burundi (Fatsah Ouguergouz) Cambodia () Haiti (Michel Forst) Myanmar (Tomás Ojea Quintana) 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 () 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 ()
United Nations special rapporteurs bear mandates from the United Nations Human Rights Council and may hold the titles special rapporteur, independent expert or special representative of the Secretary-General, and are also referred to simply as mandate-holders.

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