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In March 2024 she was chosen from 50 applicants [5] to succeed Ian Fry as the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change. [6] She was chosen on the same day as several other rapporteurs including Astrid Puentes Riaño who looks at human rights and the environment and the Colombian Gina ...
Orellana advises civil society organisations worldwide on environmental law and climate justice issues. He was also legal advisor to the President of the 25th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. [2] Since 2020, he has been the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights. [3]
She was chosen by the United Nations Human Rights Council to succeed Clément Nyaletsossi Voule from Togo in April 2024 as the United Nations Special Rapporteur looking at the human right of freedom of peaceful assembly and association. [6] Her mandate as Special Rapporteur started on May 1, 2024.
Special rapporteur (or independent expert) is the title given to independent human rights experts whose expertise is called upon by the United Nations (UN) to report or advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective.
Call for Recognition of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment, co-authored with John Knox, former Special Rapporteur on human rights and environment, General Assembly, 2018, A/73/188 [13] The Right to Breathe Clean Air, Human Rights Council, 2019, A/HRC/40/55. A Safe Climate, General Assembly, 2019, UN Doc. A/74/161 (25 pp.) Annex.
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar; United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues; United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression; United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of non-Recurrence
John Knox was the first United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and environmental issues serving from 2012 until 2018. [1] Knox is currently Professor of International Law at Wake Forest University .
Marzuki Darusman (born 26 January 1945) is an Indonesian lawyer and human rights campaigner who served as the Attorney General of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of an UN Human Rights Council mission on Myanmar since July 2017.