President's list approved by the Council on 8 May 2014
English [Word - PDF]
On 28 March 2014, the appointment decision for the 19 mandate-holders which were due to be appointed on the last day of the 25th session of the Human Rights Council (listed below) was postponed to an organizational meeting of the Council to be held any time before the end of the 19th session of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (28 April to 9 May 2014). In the meantime, the current 19 mandate-holders have been extended until then.
1. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, member from Asia-Pacific States
2. Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, member from Western European and Others States
3. Independent expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights
4. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
5. Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia
6. Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living and the right to non-discrimination in that context
7. Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
8. Special Rapporteur on the right to food
9. Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
10. Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
11. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
12. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
13. Special Rapporteur on the situation on human rights defenders
14. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, member from African States
15. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, member from Latin American and Caribbean States
16. Working Group Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, member from African States
17. Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons
18. Working Group on Discrimination Against Women in Law and in Practice, member from Latin American and Caribbean States
19. Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, member from Asia-Pacific States
President's letter [PDF] transmitting:
Report of the Consultative Group with recommendations to the President of the Human Rights Council
Part I (Mandate on the Central African Republic) – already appointed at the HRC twentieth special session
President's letter [Word - PDF] transmitting:
Report of Consultative Group with recommendations to the President of the Human Rights Council
Part II (EMRIP and working groups) - English [Word - PDF]
President's letter [Word - PDF] transmitting:
Report of Consultative Group with recommendations to the President of the Human Rights Council
Part III (Remaining individual thematic and country mandates) - English [Word - PDF]
