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Former mandate holders (discontinued mandates)
Discontinued mandates are listed in chronological order by year of establishment.
| Title | Mandate established | Mandate ended | Mandate holder(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ad Hoc Working Group of experts to investigate the situation of human rights in Southern Africa | 1967 (CHR res. 2(XXIII)) | 1995 | Mr. Armando Entralgo (Cuba), 1991 - 1995 Mr. Zoran Pajic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), 1991 - 1995 Mr. Elly-Elikunda Mtango (Tanzania), 1988 - 1995 Mr. Balanda Mikuin Leliel (Zaire), 1982 - 1995 Mr. Mulka Govinda Reddy (India), 1978 - 1995 Mr. Annan Arkin Cato (Ghana), 1972 - 1987 Mr. Keba M’Baye (Senegal), 1974 - 1982 Mr. Amjad Ali (India), 1975 - 1977 Mr. Humberto Diaz Casanueva (Chile), 1974 - 1990 Mr. A. S. Mani (India), 1972 - 1974 Mr. Mahmud Nasser Rattansey (United Republic of Tanzania), 1971 - 1974 Mr. N. N. Jha (India), 1969 - 1971 Mr. Felix Ermacora (Austria), 1967 - 1995 Mr. Branimir Jankovic (Yugoslavia), 1967 - 1990 Mr. Waldo Emerson Waldron-Ramsey (United Republic of Tanzania), 1967 - 1971 Mr. Ibrahima Boye (Senegal), 1967 - 1971 Mr. Luis Marchand-Stens (Peru), 1967 - 1971 |
| Special Rapporteur on apartheid and racial discrimination in Southern Africa | 1967 (CHR res. 7(XIII)) | 1969 | Mr. Manouchehr Ganji (Islamic Republic of Iran), 1967 – 1969 |
| Special Rapporteur to submit a comprehensive Study on the realization of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. | 1969 (ECOSOC res. 14 (XXV) | 1973 | Mr. Manouchehr Ganji (Islamic Republic of Iran) 1969 - 1973 |
| Special Working Group of Experts to investigate allegations concerning Israel's violations of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 12 August 1949 (the fourth Geneva Convention) in the territories occupied by Israel as a result of hostilities in the Middle East. | 1969 (CHR res. 6 (XXV)) | 1971 | Mr. Ibrahima Boye (Senegal), 1969 - 1971 Mr. Felix Ermacora (Austria), 1969 - 1971 Mr. Branimir Jankovic (Yugoslavia), 1969 - 1971 Mr. N.N. Jha (India), 1969 - 1971 Mr. Luis Marchand-Stens (Peru), 1969 - 1971 Mr. Waldo Emerson Waldron-Ramsey (United Republic of Tanzania), 1969 - 1971 |
| Ad Hoc Working group of Experts on the Situation of Human Rights in Chile | 1975 (CHR res. 1975/8) | 1979 | Mr. Ghulam Ali Allana (Pakistan), 1975 - 1979 Mr. Leopolde Benites (Ecuador), 1975 - 1979 Mr. Felix Ermacora (Austria), 1975 - 1979 Mr. Abdoulaye Dieye (Senegal), 1975 - 1979 Ms. Marion Kamara (Sierra Leone), 1975 – 1979 |
| Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Chile | 1979 (A/RES/43/158) | 1990 | Mr. Fernando Volio Jiménez (Costa Rica), 1985 - 1990 Mr. Rajsoomer Lallah (Mauritius), 1983 - 1985 Mr. Abdoulaye Dieye (Senegal), 1979 - 1983 |
| Special Representative of the Commission / Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea | 1979 (CHR res. 1979/15) | 2002 | Mr. Gustavo Gallón (Colombia), 1999 – 2002 – Special Representative of the Commission Mr. Alejandro Artucio (Uruguay), 1993 – 1999 – Special Rapporteur Mr. Fernando Volio Jiménez (Costa Rica), 1979 – 1993 – Special Rapporteur |
| Special Representative of the Commission on the human rights situation in El Salvador Independent expert on developments in the human rights situation in El Salvador | 1981 (CHR res. 1981/32) 1992 (CHR res. 1992/62) | 1992 1995 | Mr. José Antonio Pastor Ridruejo (Spain), 1981 – 1992 Mr. Pedro Nikken (Venezuela), 1992 - 1995 |
| Special Rapporteur / Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan | 1984 (ECOSOC res. 1984/37) | 2005 | Mr. Cherif Bassiouni (Egypt), 2004-2006 – Independent Expert Mr. Kamal Hossain (Bangladesh), 1998-2004 – Special Rapporteur Mr. Choong-Hyun Paik (Republic of Korea), 1995-1998 – Special Rapporteur Mr. Felix Ermacora (Austria), 1984-1995 - Special Rapporteur |
| Special Rapporteur / Independent Expert on the situation of Human Rights in Guatemala | 1984 (CHR res. 1982/31) | 1996 | Ms. Monica Pinto (Argentina), 1993 – 1996 – Independent Expert Mr. Christian Tomuchat (Germany), 1990 – 1993 – Independent Expert Mr. Hector Gros Espiell (Uruguay), 1987 – 1990 – Special Rapporteur Mr. John Mark Alexander Colville , 4th Viscount Colville of Culross (United Kingdom), 1984 – 1987 – Special Rapporteur |
| Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran | 1984 (CHR res. 1984/54) | 2002 | Mr. Maurice Copithorne (Canada), 1995 – 2002 Mr. Reynaldo Galindo Pohl (El Salvador), 1993 - 1995 |
| Independent expert on the right to own property alone as well as in association with others | 1991 (CHR res. 1991/19) | 1994 | Mr. Luis Valencia Rodríguez (Ecuador), 1991 - 1994 |
| Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iraq | 1991 (CHR res. 1991/74) | 2004 | Mr. Andreas Mavrommatis (Cyprus), 1999 – 2004 Mr. Max van der Stoel (The Netherlands), 1991 – 1999 |
| Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Kuwait under Iraqi occupation | 1991 (CHR res. 1991/67) | 1992 | Mr. Walter Kalin (Switzerland), 1991 - 1992 |
| Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the territory of the Former Yugoslavia | 1992 (CHR res. 1993/7) | 2003 | Mr. José Cutileiro (Portugal), 2001 - 2003 Mr. Jiri Dienstbier (Czech Republic), 1998 – 2001 Ms. Elisabeth Rehn (Germany), 1996 – 1998 Mr. Tadeusz Mazowiecki (Poland), 1992 – 1996 |
| Special Rapporteur/Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan | 1993 (CHR res. 1993/60) | 2020 | Mr. Aristide Nononsi (Benin), 2014-2020 – Independent Expert Mr. Mashood Baderin (Nigeria), 2012-2014 – Independent Expert Mr. Mohamed Chande Othman (Tanzania), 2009-2012 – Independent Expert Ms. Sima Samar, (Afghanistan), 2005-2009 – Special Rapporteur Mr. Emmanuel Kwei Addo (Ghana), 2004 – Special Rapporteur Mr. Gerhard Baum (Germany), 2000-2004 – Special Rapporteur Mr. Leonardo Franco (Argentina), 1998-2000 (resigned on 25/10/2000) – Special Rapporteur Mr. Gáspár Biro (Hungary), 1993-1998 – Special Rapporteur |
| Special rapporteur/Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire) | 1994 (CHR res. 1994/87) | 2008 | Mr. Titinga Frederic Pacere (Burkina Faso), 2004 – 2008 – Independent Expert Ms. Iulia Antoanella Motoc (Romania), 2003 – 2004 – Special Rapporteur Mr. Roberto Garretón (Chile), 1994 – 2002 – Special Rapporteur |
| Special Rapporteur / Special Representative on the situation of human rights in Rwanda | 1994 (CHR res. S-3/1) | 2000 | Mr. Michel Moussalli (Lebanon), 1997 - 2000 Mr. Rene Degni-Ségui (Cote d'Ivoire), 1994 - 1997 |
| Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti | 1995 (CHR res. 1995/70) | 2017 | Mr. Gustavo Gallón (Colombia), 2013-2017 Mr. Michel Forst (France), 2008-2013 Mr. Louis Joinet (France), 2002-2008 Mr. Adama Dieng (Senegal), 1995-2001 |
| Special Rapporteur / Independent expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi | 1995 (CHR res. 1995/90) | 2011 | Mr. Fatsah Ouguergouz (Algeria), 2010 - 2011 – Independent Expert Mr. Akich Okola (Kenya), 2004 – 2010 – Independent Expert Ms. Marie-Thérèse Keita-Bocoum (Cote d'Ivoire), 1999 – 2004 – Special Rapporteur Mr. Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro (Brazil), 1995 – 1999 – Special Rapporteur |
| Independent expert on structural Policies* | 1997 (CHR dec. 1997/103) | 2000 | Mr. Fanto Cheru (United States of America/Ethiopia), 1998 – 2000 *This mandate was merged with the mandate on foreign debt into the subsequent mandate on foreign debt created by CHR res. 2000/82) |
| Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Nigeria | 1997 (CHR res. 1997/263) | 1999 | Mr. Soli Jehangir Sorabjee (India), 1997 - 1999 |
| Special Rapporteur on the effects of foreign debt on the full enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights* | 1998 (CHR res. 1998/24) | 2000 | Mr. Reinaldo Figueredo (Venezuela), 1998-2000 *This mandate was merged with the mandate on structural policies into the subsequent mandate on foreign debt created by CHR res. 2000/82 |
| Independent expert on the right to development | 1998 (CHR res. 1998/72) | 2004 | Mr. Arjun Sengupta (India), 1999 - 2004 |
| Independent experts on basic principles and guidelines on the right to a remedy and reparation for victims of gross violations of international human rights law and serious violations of international human rights law | 1998 (CHR res. 1998/43) | 2005 | Mr. Cherif Bassiouni (Egypt / United States of America), 1998 - 2005 |
| Independent expert to examine the question of a draft optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | 2001 (CHR res. 2001/30) | 2006 | Mr. Hatem Kotrane (Tunisia), 2001 - 2006 |
| Personal representative of the High Commissioner for Human rights on the situation of human rights in Cuba | 2002 (CHR res. 2002/18) | 2007 | Ms. Christine Chanet (France), 2002 - 2007 |
| Independent Expert on technical cooperation and advisory services in Liberia | 2003 (CHR res. 2003/82) | 2008 | Ms. Charlotte Abaka (Ghana), 2003 - 2008 |
| Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus | 2004 (CHR res. 2004/14) | 2007 | Mr. Adrian Severin (Romania), 2004 - 2007 |
| Independent expert on the situation of human rights in Chad | 2004 (CHR res. 2004/85) | 2005 | Ms. Monica Pinto (Argentina), 2004 - 2005 |
| Independent expert on the situation of human rights in Uzbekistan | 2004 (Confidential 1503 procedure) | 2007 | Ms. Michele Picard (France), 2005 - 2007 |
| Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Côte d’Ivoire | 2011 (HRC res. 17/21) | 2017 | Mr. Mohammed Ayat (Morocco), 2014 - 2017 Mr. Doudou Diène (Senegal), 2011 - 2014 |