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Special Rapporteurs ( ) are in addition to Independent Experts ( ) and Working Groups ( ) so-called Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council ( ), their mandates are either thematically or geographically defined.

They are usually appointed by the UN Human Rights Council for a period of three years, with their mandates often being extended once for a further three years. They are volunteers. Her working methods include country missions, thematic studies and dialogue with individual governments on individual cases of human rights violations.

Thematic tasks
(as of January 2023)
since 1982 UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions
1982–1992 S. Amos Wako – Kenya
1992–1998 Bacre Waly Ndiaye – Senegal
1998–2004 Asma Jilani Jahangir – Pakistan
2004–2010 Philip Alston – Australia
2010–2016 Christof Heyns – South Africa
2016–2021 Agnès Callamard – France
since 2021 Morris Tidball-Binz – Chile, Argentina

since 1985 UN Special Rapporteur on Torture
1985–1993 Pieter Kooijmans – Netherlands
1993–2001 Nigel S. Rodley – United Kingdom
2001–2004 Theo van Boven – Netherlands
2004–2010 Manfred Nowak – Austria
2010–2016 Juan Ernesto Méndez – Argentina
2016–2022 Nils Melzer – Switzerland
since 2022 Alice Jill Edwards - Australia

since 1986 UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief
1986–1993 Angelo d’Almeida Ribeiro – Portugal
1993–2004 Abdelfattah Amor – Tunisia
2004–2010 Asma Jilani Jahangir – Pakistan
2010–2016 Heiner Bielefeldt – Germany
2016–2022 Ahmed Shaheed – Maldives
since 2022 Nazila Ghanea – Iran

since 1990 UN Special Rapporteur on child trafficking and child prostitution (child prostitution and child pornography)
1991–1994 Vitit Muntarbhorn
1994–2001 Ofelia Calcetas-Santos
2001–2008 Juan Miguel Petit
2008–2014 Najat Maalla M’jid – Morocco
2014–2020 Maud de Boer-Buquicchio – Netherlands
since 2020 Mama Fatima Singhateh - The Gambia

since 1993 UN Special Rapporteur on Racism and Xenophobia (Contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance)
1993–2002 Maurice Glèlè-Ahanhanzo – Benin
2002–2008 Doudou Diène – Senegal
2008–2011 Githu Muigai – Kenya
2011–2017 Mutuma Ruteere – Kenya
2017–2022 E. Tendayi Achiume – Zambia
since 2022 Ashwini K. P. – India

since 1993 UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression (Promoting and protecting the right to freedom of expression and expression)
1993–2002 Abid Hussain – India
2002–2008 Ambeyi Ligabo – Kenya
2008–2014 Frank William La Rue – Guatemala
2014–2020 David Kaye – USA
since 2020 Irene Khan – Bangladesh

since 1994 UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers
1994–2003 Param Cumaraswamy – Malaysia
2003–2009 Leandro Despouy – Argentina
2009–2015 Gabriela Knaul – Brazil
2015–2016 Mónica Pinto – Argentina
2016–2