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Appointments at the 55th session of the Human Rights Council (26 February to 5 April 2024)

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PRESIDENT’S LIST OF 29 FEBRUARY 2024 – appointments approved by the Human Rights Council on 5 April 2024 [ Word | PDF ]

PRESIDENT’S LIST OF 12 FEBRUARY 2024 with the candidates proposed for the 12, out of 14, mandate holders to be appointed at the fifty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council [ Word | PDF ]

President's letter of 16 February 2024 [ Word | PDF ] transmitting:
Addendum to the report of the Consultative Group to the President of the Human Rights Council relating to the vacancies of mandate holders to be appointed at the fifty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council - two vacancies (mandates on environment and climate change)
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President's letter of 29 January 2024 [  Word | PDF ] transmitting:
Report of the Consultative Group to the President of the Human Rights Council relating to the vacancies of mandate holders to be appointed at the fifty-fifth session of the Human Rights Council - twelve vacancies (mandates on Indigenous Peoples, international order, Mali, truth, peaceful assembly, peasants and mercenaries)
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Application process and deadlines

Secretariat note verbale of 14 December 2023
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Call for applications for mandate holders of the Human Rights Council to be appointed at the fifty-fifth session of the Council – additional vacancy due to resignation
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For the following mandate only, the application process opened on 14 December 2023 and closed on 19 January 2024 (12 noon Geneva time). APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED FOR:

  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change

Secretariat note verbale of 1 December 2023
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Extension of the deadline for applications for five vacancies of mandate holders to be appointed at the 55th session of the Human Rights Council

For the following mandates only, the application process opened on 18 October 2023 and closed on 11 December 2023 (12 noon Geneva time). APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED FOR:

  • Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, member from African States
  • Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, member from Asia-Pacific States
  • Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, member from Eastern European States
  • Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, member from Latin American and Caribbean States
  • Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, member from Western European and other States

Secretariat note verbale of 26 October 2023
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Extension of the deadline for applications for two vacancies of mandate holders to be appointed at the 55th session of the Human Rights Council

For the following mandates only, the application process opened on 12 September and closed on 2 November 2023 (12 noon Geneva time). APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED FOR:

  • Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, member from North America
  • 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 African States

Secretariat note verbale of 18 October 2023
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Call for applications for mandate holders of the Human Rights Council to be appointed at the fifty-fifth session of the Council – six additional vacancies (resignation and a new Working Group)
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For the following mandate only, the application process opened on 18 October and closed on 30 November 2023 (12 noon Geneva time). APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED FOR:  

  • Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment*

Secretariat note verbale of 12 September 2023
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Call for applications for mandate holders of the Human Rights Council to be appointed at the fifty-fifth session of the Council
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العربية | 中文 | English | Français | русский | Español (Word)

For the following mandates only, the application process opened on 12 September and closed on 25 October 2023 (12 noon Geneva time). APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED FOR:

  • Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, member from Africa
  • Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
  • Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali*
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

Candidates eligible for the vacancies in Working Groups are only nationals of States belonging to the specific regional groups for which specific vacancies have been advertised. Please refer to the list of the United Nations regional groups of Member States.

For members of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), candidates need to represent one of the indigenous sociocultural regions for which vacancies have been advertised. Please see additional information on EMRIP.

How to submit a complete application?
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General information about the selection and appointment process

Frequently asked questions

Nomination, Selection and Appointment of Mandate Holders

Mandates and list of candidates**

**The content, views and/or opinions included in the application forms listed below are those of the candidates only and do not reflect the views and/or opinions of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The Human Rights Council, its subsidiary bodies and OHCHR are not responsible for the content of the submitted application forms, which are posted as received.

 

MANDATELIST OF ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES

Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, member from Africa

Human Rights Council resolution 33/25 

Elsie Ngowo EFFANGE-MBELLA (F)
Cameroon

Tijani EL-HAMZAOUI (M)
Morocco

Mohamed HANDAINE (M)
Morocco

Mostafa KAMEL (M)
Egypt

Gatwor LOCH (M)
South Sudan

Margaret LOKAWUA (F)
Uganda

Joao LOURENCO (M)
Angola

Mutoy MUBIALA (M)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Emmanuel NENGO (M)
Burundi

Gervais NZOA (M)
Cameroon

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Ojot Miru OJULU (M) 
Ethiopia

Melakou TEGEGN (M)
Ethiopia

Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, member from North America

Human Rights Council resolution 33/25 

Melissa CLYDE (F)
United States of America

Wakinyan LAPOINTE (M)
United States of America

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Sheryl LIGHTFOOT (F)
Canada

Sunny STEVENSON (F)
United States of America

Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order

Human Rights Council resolution 45/4 and Human Rights Council resolution 54/4 (extending the mandate)

Obijiofor AGINAM (M)
Nigeria

Ahmed BOUHOUBEYNI (M)
Mauritania

Martha DAVIS (F)
United States of America

Ognan DOGO (M)
Togo

Mark GIBNEY (M)
United States of America

David GRIFFITHS (M)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Paul HUNT (M)
New Zealand

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
George KATROUGALOS (M)
Greece

Mohamed Ali KHALDI (M)
Tunisia

Gatwor LOCH (M)
South Sudan

Gilberto MARCOS ANTONIO RODRIGUES (M)
Brazil

Mutoy MUBIALA (M)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Timothy MURITHI (M)
Kenya

Aristide NONONSI (M)
Benin

Ismail Nusantara PULUNGAN (M)
Indonesia

Axana SOLTAN (F)
Afghanistan

Ralph WILDE (M)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali

Human Rights Council resolution 52/42 and Human Rights Council resolution 55/25 (extending the mandate)

Ahmed BOUHOUBEYNI (M)
Mauritania

Ognan DOGO (M)
Togo

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Eduardo GONZALEZ (M)
Peru

Marie-Claude LACROIX (F)
Canada

Mike MWIKA KABANGE (M)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Aristide NONONSI (M)
Benin

Cheick SAKO (M)
Guinea

Abdoul Karim SANGO (M)
Burkina Faso

Fortune Gaetan ZONGO (M)
Burkina Faso

Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment 
(formerly Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment)

Human Rights Council resolution 46/7 and Human Rights Council resolution 55/2 (extending and renaming the mandate)

Obijiofor AGINAM (M)
Nigeria

Abdurahman AME(M)
Ireland

Ananda Mohan BHATTARAI (M)
Nepal

Flaviano BIANCHINI (M)
Italy

Tendai BITI (M)
Zimbabwe

Alejandro CACACE (M)
Argentina

Leïla CHIKHAOUI-MAHDAOUI (F)
Tunisia

Nambitha DAMBUZA-MAYOSI (F)
South Africa

Ismaeel DAWOOD (M)
Iraq

Jonas EBBESSON (M)
Sweden

Namita GUPTA (F)
India

Claudia ITUARTE-LIMA (F)
Mexico

Mostafa KAMEL (M)
Egypt

Carlos LOZANO (M)
Colombia

Jennifer MCKAY (F)
Australia

Elisa MORGERA (F)
Italy

Mutoy MUBIALA (M)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

S David Kawoe NYUMA, JR (M)
Liberia

Uche Ewelukwa OFODILE (F)
Nigeria

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Astrid PUENTES RIAÑO (F)
Mexico

Tianbao QIN (M)
China

Sushil RAJ (M)
United States of America

Urooj RAJA (F)
United States of America

Nadjet SACI (F)
Algeria

Maud SARLIEVE (F)
France

Axana SOLTAN (F)
Afghanistan

Yingxia TANG (F)
China

Maria Antonia TIGRE (F)
Brazil

Cynthia C. UMEZULIKE (F)
Nigeria

Christina VOIGT (F)
Norway

Xiangyi WANG (F)
China

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change

Human Rights Council resolution 48/14

Hussein ABAZA (M)
Egypt

Joycelyn ACQUAH (F)
Ghana

Obijiofor AGINAM  (M)
Nigeria

Mohammed AL-KUWARI (M)
Qatar

Abdurahman AME (M)
Ireland

Sulaiman ASHIRU (M)
Nigeria

Sumudu ATAPATTU (F)
United States of America

Bithinah AWAD (F)
Saudi Arabia

Natalia CASTRO NIÑO (F)
Colombia

Ricardo Javier DOMINGUEZ LLOSA (M)
Spain

Sébastien DUYCK (M)
France

Eghosa EKHATOR (M)
Nigeria

Elisa FORNALÉ (F)
Italy

Erika GEORGE (F)
United States of America

Claudia ITUARTE-LIMA (F)
Mexico

Ademola Oluborode JEGEDE (M)
Nigeria

Chaoyi JIANG (F)
China

Mostafa KAMEL (M)
Egypt

Hilaire KASONGO SHAKO (M)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Arvind KUMAR (M)
India

Chen LIU (F)
China

Maria Jose LUBERTINO BELTRAN (F)
Argentina

Jiang LYU (M)
China

Alyssa Jade MCDONALD (F)
Australia

Jennifer MCKAY (F)
Australia

Adebowale MEROYI (F)
Nigeria

Sai Sampath METTU (M)
India

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Elisa MORGERA (F)
Italy

Sethunya MOSIME (F)
Botswana

Mutoy MUBIALA (M)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Princess Cecilia NDIFON (F)
Cameroon

Gervais NZOA (M)
Cameroon

Uche Ewelukwa OFODILE (F)
Nigeria

Jacqueline PEEL (F)
Australia

Luis Felipe POLO (M)
Peru

Astrid PUENTES RIAÑO (F)
Mexico

Sushil RAJ (M)
United States of America

Tikumporn RODKHUNMUANG (non-binary)
Thailand

Soheil SHAYEGH (M)
United States of America

Hao SHEN (M)
China

Xu SHUANG (F)
China

Magdalena SMIESZEK (F)
Poland

Axana SOLTAN (F)
United States of America

Carlos Antonio Martín SORIA DALL'ORSO (M)
Peru

Yingxia TANG (F)
China

Maria Antonia TIGRE (F)
Brazil

Cynthia C. UMEZULIKE (F)
Nigeria

Christina VOIGT (F)
Norway

Xiangyi WANG (F)
China

Margaretha WEWERINKE-SINGH (F)
Kingdom of the Netherlands

Chunfu YANG (M)
China

Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence

Human Rights Council resolution 45/10 and Human Rights Council resolution 54/8 (extending the mandate)

Antonios ABOU KASM (M)
Lebanon

Kevin BELL (M)
Australia

Louis BICKFORD (M)
United States of America

Mô BLEEKER (F)
Switzerland

Ahmed BOUHOUBEYNI (M)
Mauritania

Ognan DOGO (M)
Togo

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Bernard DUHAIME (M)
Canada

Miriam EKIUDOKO (F)
Hungary

Veronika FIKFAK (F)
Slovenia

Hannah GARRY (F)
United States of America

Eduardo GONZALEZ (M)
Peru

Pierre HAZAN (M)
Switzerland

Nadir ISMAILI (M)
Morocco

Cecilia JIMENEZ DAMARY (F)
Philippines

Satvinder JUSS (M)
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Marie-Claude LACROIX (F)
Canada

Jon-Mirena LANDA (M)
Spain

Gatwor LOCH (M)
South Sudan

Mutoy MUBIALA (M)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Timothy MURITHI (M)
Kenya

Aristide NONONSI (M)
Benin

Pierre THIELBÖRGER (M)
German

Thomas UNGER (M)
Austria

Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

Human Rights Council resolution 50/17

Antonios ABOU KASM (M)
Lebanon

Teresa ANJINHO (F)
Portugal

Ahmed BOUHOUBEYNI (M)
Mauritania

DENISE DOURADO DORA (F)
Brazil

Bernard DUHAIME (M)
Canada

Karinna FERNANDEZ NEIRA (F)
Chile

Nimalka FERNANDO (F)
Sri Lanka

Michael HAMILTON (M)
Ireland

Mohamed IKTA ABDOULAYE (M)
Niger

Ryszard KOMENDA (M)
Poland

Carlos LOPEZ HURTADO (M)
Peru

Jennifer MCKAY (F)
Australia

Mutoy MUBIALA (M)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bahame Tom MUKIRYA NYANDUGA (M)
United Republic of Tanzania

Onesmo OLENGURUMWA (M)
United Republic of Tanzania

Serghei OSTAF (M)
Republic of Moldova

Robert Falcon OUELLETTE (M)
Canada

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Gina Paola ROMERO RODRIGUEZ (F)
Colombia

Mark SIDEL (M)
United States of America

Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, member from African States

Human Rights Council resolution 54/9

Ignace ADIGBLI (M)
Benin

Adeyemi APENA (F)
Nigeria

Tendai BITI (M)
Zimbabwe

Anthony DIALA (M)
Nigeria

Olasoji FAGBOLA (M)
Nigeria

Mamadou GOÏTA (M)
Mali

Mariama Sire KABA (F)
Guinea

Hilaire KASONGO SHAKO (M)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Sylvain KITENGE LOBABA (M)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Margaret Eberu MASUDIO (F)
Uganda

Harry MAY (M)
South Africa

Mutoy MUBIALA (M)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bahame Tom Mukirya NYANDUGA (M)
United Republic of Tanzania

Ohenjo NYANG'ORI (M)
Kenya

S David Kawoe NYUMA, JR (M)
Liberia

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Uche Ewelukwa OFODILE (F)
Nigeria

Nadjet SACI (F)
Algeria

Cynthia C. UMEZULIKE (F)
Nigeria

Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, member from Asia-Pacific States

Human Rights Council resolution 54/9

Yan CAO (F)
China

Baramee CHAIYARAT (M)
Thailand

Zainal Arifin FUAD (M)
Indonesia

Namita GUPTA (F)
India

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Shalmali GUTTAL (F)
India

Bunthea KEO (M)
Cambodia

Keshab Raj KHADKA (M)
Nepal

Li LI (F)
China

Ashwini OBULESH (F)
India

Asghar REHMAN (M)
Pakistan

Axana SOLTAN (F)
Afghanistan

Ricardo III SUNGA (M)
Philippines

Farooq TARIQ (M)
Pakistan

Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, member from Eastern European States

Human Rights Council resolution 54/9

Oleksii FRAIER (M)
Ukraine

Ermal FRASHERI (M)
Albania

Robert HADŽIĆ (M)
Croatia

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Davit HAKOBYAN (M)
Armenia

Mariam JORJADZE (F)
Georgia

Mariia LUKIANOVA (F)
Ukraine

Irina SHIRYOVA (F)
Russian Federation

Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, member from Latin American and Caribbean States

Human Rights Council resolution 54/9

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Carlos DUARTE (M)
Colombia

Christian GONZALEZ CHACON (M)
Guatemala

Adalberto MÉNDEZ LÓPEZ (M)
Mexico

Diego MONTÓN (M)
Argentina

Luis Fernando ROSALES LOZADA (M)
Bolivia (Plurinational Republic of)

Working Group on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas, member from Western European and other States

Human Rights Council resolution 54/9

Hilal ELVER (F)
Türkiye

Christophe GOLAY (M)
Switzerland

Claire MAHON (F)
New Zealand

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Geneviève SAVIGNY (F)
France

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 African States

Human Rights Council resolution 51/13

Sabelo GUMEDZE (M)
South Africa

Gatwor LOCH (M)
South Sudan

Mutoy MUBIALA (M)
Democratic Republic of the Congo

APPOINTED MANDATE HOLDER 
Michelle René SMALL (F)
South Africa

Saidou Nourou TALL (M)
Senegal

*The appointment of the mandate holder will be made provided the mandate itself is extended by the Human Rights Council.

Should the appointee to any of the mandates be a person with a disability, the United Nations would be obliged to ensure reasonable accommodation for the mandate holder in the implementation of his/her mandate. This may include provisions for the mandate holder to be accompanied during official travels by a personal assistant, and/or for additional conference services (such as sign language interpretation) in respect of meetings in which the mandate holder participates.