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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 ...
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.
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]
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.
Margaret Lockwood Satterthwaite (born 1969) is the American-born special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers for the United Nations. She has been involved in legal cases including those in Kiribati and the United Kingdom where the government was planning to overrule the judiciary.
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.
She wrote a report recording the positive measures they are taking in Madagascar to avoid discrimination and she made recommendation to the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2023. [4] During her term she has visited and reported on other countries including Brazil, Fiji, Kenya, Malawi, Panama and Tanzania. [ 5 ]
Cecilia M. Bailliet (born 24 April 1969) is a Norwegian/Argentine/US professor of law who became the United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity in 2023. Life [ edit ]