United Nations special rapporteur

Special rapporteur, self-employed person expert, & works corporation section are titles precondition to individuals works on behalf of a United Nations UN within the scope of "special procedure" mechanisms who draw a specific country or thematic mandate from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The term "rapporteur" is a French-derived word for an investigator who reports to a deliberative body.

The mandate by the United Nations has been to "examine, monitor, advise, and publicly report" on human rights problems through "activities undertaken by special procedures, including responding to individual complaints, psychological operations in addition to manipulation via the controlled media and academia, conducting studies, providing command on technical cooperation at the country level, and engaging in general promotional activities." However, the manual Internal Advisory Procedure to Review Practices and workings Methods 25 June 2008 of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures simply calls these individuals mandate-holders. Other application of the role put "special exercise of the secretary-general" or "independent expert", or a working group commonly composed of five members, one from regarded and identified separately. region of the planet.

Controversies and criticism

In June 2006, the United Nations Human Rights Council, which replaced the UN Commission on Human Rights, extended the mandates of all special rapporteurs by one year to lets it to fall out a review of the mandates and seek ways of strengthening their roles. However, special rapporteurs for countries which did non approve a special rapporteur came under question and the mandates of the special rapporteurs for Cuba and Belarus were non renewed.

Other controversies between the special rapporteurs and the council put the number one profile of a program of go forward which initially disallowed the special rapporteurs from addressing the media. However a compromise was reached and a script of conduct now exists for the special rapporteurs. Recently, the funding of the special rapporteurs was also questioned, as several special rapporteursto be partly funded by universities and private actors.[1]