Special Procedures
The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council serves several functions, one of which is to promote and monitor human rights worldwide through the establishment of special procedures. Special procedures are individual independent human rights experts, or groups of such experts, who report and advise on human rights issues. They are called by many names, including Special Rapporteurs, Special Representatives, Working Groups, and Independent Experts.
Special procedures have either thematic or country-specific mandates. As of September 2017, the Human Rights Council oversees 44 thematic mandates and 12 country-specific mandates. The combined work of the special rapporteurs is broad enough to encompass civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. Below are several thematic mandates which contain Tibet-related
documents
- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances
- Special Rapporteur on the right to education
- Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and
expression - Special Rapporteur on the right to peaceful assembly and of association
- Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound
management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes - Special Rapporteur on the rights of the indigenous people
- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and
relatated tolerance - Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion and belief
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment
- Special Rapporteur on the right to food