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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Special Rapporteurs of Human Rights Bodies

Antje C Berger

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
July 2024

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 08 October 2024

Subject(s):
Civil and political rights — Economic, social, and cultural rights — International organizations, practice and procedure

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 Intergovernmental bodies assigned with the protection of human rights have established temporary mandates of special rapporteurs. Instituted at international and regional levels, special rapporteurs are independent experts authorized to investigate the human rights situation in a specific country or to address a certain thematic issue on human rights. At the United Nations (UN) level, special rapporteurs are mandated in particular by the Human Rights Council (‘HR Council’ or ‘Council’) and supported by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...
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