UN Special Procedures
UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES
Human rights conditions, including compliance with the international human rights treaties drafted under the auspices of the United Nations, are also monitored by a variety of special rapporteurs, working groups and independent experts – established by the UN Human Rights Council (or its predecessor UN Commission on Human Rights). The thematic special procedures include:
- Special Rapporteur on adequate housing
- Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Special Rapporteur on Adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights
- Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
- Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Independent expert on human rights and international solidarity
- Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders
- Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples
- Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination
- Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Independent Expert on minority issues
- Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty
- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism
- Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
- Special Rapporteur on Contemporary forms of slavery
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism
- Special Rapporteur on torture
- Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially in women and children
- Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking Water and sanitation
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Special Representative of the Secretary General on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
- Representative of the Secretary General on the human rights of internally displaced persons
- Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights
- Independent Expert in the field of cultural rights
