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ANNEX II: UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES
Mandate
Name and country of origin
of current mandate holder
Included in
mandate
Representative of the SecretaryGeneral on internally displaced
persons
Mr Walter Kalin (Switzerland)
Communications
Country visits
Special Rapporteur on use of
mercenaries as a means of impeding
the exercise of the right of peoples to
self-determination
Ms Shaista Shameen (Fiji)
Country visits
Special Rapporteur on the human
rights of migrants
Ms Gabriela Rodriguez
Pizarro (Costa Rica)
Communications
Country visits
Independent Expert on human rights
and extreme poverty
Mr Arjun Sengupta (India)
Country visits
Special Rapporteur on contemporary
forms of racism, racial discrimination,
xenophobia and related intolerance
Mr Doudou Diene (Senegal)
Communications
Country visits
Independent Expert on structural
adjustment policies and foreign debt
Mr Bernards Andrew
Nyamwaya Mudho (Kenya)
Country visits
Independent Expert to assist the High
Commissioner in the fulfilment of the
mandate entitled ‘Protection of human
rights and fundamental freedoms
while countering terrorism’
Mr Robert K. Goldman (USA)
Special Rapporteur on torture an other
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment
Mr Manfred Nowak
(Austria)
Communications*
Country visits
Special Rapporteur on the adverse
effects of the illicit movement and
dumping of toxic and dangerous
products and wastes on the
enjoyment of human rights
Mr Okechukwu Ibeanu
(Nigeria)
Communications
Country visits
Special Rapporteur on violence
against women, its causes and
consequences
Ms Yakin Erturk (Turkey)
Communications*
Country visits
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in
persons, especially in women and
children
Ms Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
(Liberia)
Communications
* has issued guidelines for submission of communications
Countries with a special rapporteur/special representative/independent expert
Afghanistan, Belarus, Burundi, Cambodia, Chad, Cuba, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,
Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Liberia, Myanmar, Palestinian territories occupied since
1967, Somalia, Sudan, Uzbekistan