JUNE

2016

DIRECTORY
OF SPECIAL
PROCEDURES
MANDATE
HOLDERS
Working Group of experts on people Working Group on the issue of human rights and trans- Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means
of African descent national corporations and other business enterprises of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of
Ricardo Sunga III Dante Pesce the right of peoples to self-determination
Anton Katz
English English, Spanish
africandescent@ohchr.org wg-business@ohchr.org English
mercenaries@ohchr.org

Working Group of experts on people Working Group on the issue of human rights and trans-
of African descent national corporations and other business enterprises Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means
Mireille Fanon-Mendes-France to be appointed of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of
the right of peoples to self-determination
English, French Saeed Mokbil
africandescent@ohchr.org wg-business@ohchr.org
English, French
mercenaries@ohchr.org
Working Group of experts on people Working Group on the issue of human rights and trans-
of African descent national corporations and other business enterprises
Michal Balcerzak Surya Deva Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means
of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of
English English the right of peoples to self-determination
africandescent@ohchr.org wg-business@ohchr.org Gabor Rona
English
mercenaries@ohchr.org
Working Group of experts on people Working Group on the issue of human rights and trans-
of African descent national corporations and other business enterprises
Sabelo Gumedze Pavel Sulyandziga
English Russian
africandescent@ohchr.org wg-business@ohchr.org Working group on the issue of discrimination against
women in law and in practice
Emna Aouij
Working Group of experts on people
of African descent French
Ahmed Reid wgdiscriminationwomen@ohchr.org
Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances
English Bernard Duhaime
africandescent@ohchr.org French, English, Spanish Working group on the issue of discrimination against
wgeid@ohchr.org women in law and in practice
Kamala Chandrakirana
English
Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances wgdiscriminationwomen@ohchr.org
Working Group on arbitrary detention Ariel Dulitzky
Leigh Toomey
Spanish, English
English wgeid@ohchr.org Working group on the issue of discrimination against
wgad@ohchr.org women in law and in practice
Frances Raday
Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances English
Working Group on arbitrary detention Henrikas Mickevicius wgdiscriminationwomen@ohchr.org
Sètondji Roland Jean-Baptiste
Adjovi English, Russian
wgeid@ohchr.org Working group on the issue of discrimination against
French, English
women in law and in practice
wgad@ohchr.org
Eleonora Zielinska
Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances
Tae-Ung Baik English
Working Group on arbitrary detention wgdiscriminationwomen@ohchr.org
José Guevara English, Chinese
wgeid@ohchr.org
Spanish, English
Working Group on the issue of discrimination against
wgad@ohchr.org women in law and practice
Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances Alda Facio
Houria Es Slami Spanish, English, French
Working Group on arbitrary detention
Seong-Phil Hong French, Arabic, English wgdiscriminationwomen@ohchr.org
wgeid@ohchr.org
English
wgad@ohchr.org

Working Group on arbitrary detention Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights
Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of persons with albinism
Vladimir Tochilovsky of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of Ikponwosa Ero
Russian, English the right of peoples to self-determination
Patricia Arias English
wgad@ohchr.org albinism@ohchr.org
English, Spanish, French
mercenaries@ohchr.org

Working Group on the issue of human rights and trans- Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
national corporations and other business enterprises of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of Karima Bennoune
the right of peoples to self-determination
Michael K. Addo English, French
Elzbieta Karska
English srculturalrights@ohchr.org
English
wg-business@ohchr.org
mercenaries@ohchr.org
Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty
with disabilities enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and human rights
Catalina Devandas Aguilar and mental health Philip Alston
Dainius Puras
English, Spanish English, French
sr.disability@ohchr.org English srextremepoverty@ohchr.org
srhealth@ohchr.org

Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy

Special Rapporteur on the right to education
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights Joseph Cannataci
Kishore Singh defenders
English, French English, French
Michel Forst
sreducation@ohchr.org srprivacy@ohchr.org
French, English
defenders@ohchr.org

Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of

Independent Expert on the issue of human rights racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related
obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges intolerance
healthy and sustainable environment and lawyers Mutuma Ruteere
John Knox Mónica Pinto English
English Spanish, English, French racism@ohchr.org
ieenvironment@ohchr.org srindependencejl@ohchr.org

Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief

Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples Heiner Bielefeldt
or arbitrary executions Victoria Lucia Tauli-Corpuz English
Christof Heyns English freedomofreligion@ohchr.org
English indigenous@ohchr.org
eje@ohchr.org

Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child

prostitution and child pornography
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally
displaced persons Maud De Boer-Buquicchio
Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Hilal Elver Chaloka Beyani English, French
English srsaleofchildren@ohchr.org
English
srfood@ohchr.org idp@ohchr.org

Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery,

including its causes and its consequences
Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic
Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and equitable international order Urmila Bhoola
and other related international financial obligations English
of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, Alfred de Zayas
particularly economic, social and cultural rights English, Spanish, French, Russian srslavery@ohchr.org
Juan Bohoslavsky ie-internationalorder@ohchr.org
English, Spanish
ieforeigndebt@ohchr.org Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection
of human rights and fundamental freedoms while
Independent Expert on human rights and international countering terrorism
solidarity Ben Emmerson
Virginia Dandan English
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection
of the right to freedom of opinion and expression English srct@ohchr.org
David Kaye iesolidarity@ohchr.org
English
freedex@ohchr.org
Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants or degrading treatment or punishment
François Crépeau Juan Ernesto Méndez
French, English Spanish, English,
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful
assembly and of association migrant@ohchr.org sr-torture@ohchr.org
Maina Kiai
English
freeassembly@ohchr.org Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially
Special Rapporteur on minority issues
women and children
Rita Izsák-Ndiaye
Maria Grazia Giammarinaro
English
English, French
Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a minorityissues@ohchr.org
srtrafficking@ohchr.org
component of the right to an adequate standard of living
Leilani Farha
English, French
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice,
srhousing@ohchr.org rights by older persons reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
Rosa Kornfeld-Matte Pablo de Greiff
French, Spanish, English English, Spanish
olderpersons@ohchr.org srtruth@ohchr.org
Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral Independent Expert on the situation of human rights Independent Expert on the situation of human rights
coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights in Central African Republic in Mali
Idriss Jazairy Marie-Thérèse Keita Bocoum Suliman Baldo
English, French, Arabic French, English Arabic, French, English
ucm@ohchr.org ie-car@ohchr.org ie-mali@ohchr.org

Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its Independent Expert on the enhancement of capacity Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
causes and consequences building and technical cooperation with Côte d'Ivoire in Myanmar
Dubravka Šimonovic in the field of human rights Yanghee Lee
Mohammed Ayat
English, English, French, Spanish
vaw@ohchr.org Arabic, French, English sr-myanmar@ohchr.org
eicotedivoire@ohchr.org

Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
of the environmentally sound management and disposal Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
of hazardous substances and wastes in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Michael Lynk
Baskut Tuncak Marzuki Darusman
English
English English sropt@ohchr.org
srtoxicwaste@ohchr.org hr-dprk@ohchr.org

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights

Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Somalia
water and sanitation in Eritrea Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga
Léo Heller Sheila B. Keetharuth
English
English, Spanish English, French, ie-somalia@ohchr.org
srwatsan@ohchr.org sr-eritrea@ohchr.org

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan
in Belarus in Haiti Aristidi Nononsi
Miklós Haraszti Gustavo Gallón
French, English
English English, French, Spanish iesudan@ohchr.org
sr-belarus@ohchr.org ie-haiti@ohchr.org

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic
in Cambodia in the Islamic Republic of Iran Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
Rhona Smith Ahmed Shaheed
English, French, Spanish
English English srsyria@ohchr.org
srcambodia@ohchr.org sr-iran@ohchr.org

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