The UN Human Rights Council and the Special Procedures
Reading
- Surya P. Subedi, “Protection of human rights through the mechanism of UN Special Procedures”, Human Rights Quarterly, 33, 1 (2011), pp. 201-228.
Video: Interviews with Special Rapporteurs and Independent Experts
Watch these interviews with various Special Procedures mandate holders – “rapporteurs” or “experts” appointed by the Human Rights Council to monitor a particular human rights issue, or to monitor human rights in a particular country.
- Interview with Surya Subedi, UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Cambodia.
- Interview with Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture.
- Interview with Catarina Albequerque, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Water and Sanitation.
- Interview with James Anaya, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
- Watch here a short film of the country visit to Argentina, carried out by James Anaya in 2011.