The United Nations Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order is a
United Nations Independent Expert (also known as Special Rapporteur) appointed by the
United Nations Human Rights Council
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), CDH is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. The Council has 47 members elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis. ...
under its special procedures mechanism, to report on the thematic field of the promotion of a
democratic and
equitable international order
In international relations, international order refers to patterned or structured relationships between actors on the international level.
Definition
David Lake, Lisa Martin and Thomas Risse define "order" as "patterned or structured relatio ...
. The mandate was established by Human Rights Council resolution 18/6 (29 September 2011), chiefly supported by
developing countries
A developing country is a sovereign state with a lesser developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries. However, this definition is not universally agreed upon. There is also no clear agreem ...
.
On 23 March 2012,
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 31 May 1947) is a Cuban-born American lawyer and writer, active in the field of human rights and international law. From 1 May 2012 to 30 April 2018, he served as the first UN Independent Expert on the Promotion o ...
(United States) was elected the Independent Expert by the Human Rights Council, after being nominated by its President
Laura Dupuy Lasserre, the
Permanent Representative
A permanent representative is a diplomat who is the head of a country’s diplomatic mission to an international organisation.
Organizations that receive permanent representatives from their member states include the United Nations, the World Tr ...
of
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
.
The other nominated candidates were
Miloon Kothari
Miloon Kothari is a scholar and activist who served from 2000 to 2008 as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing with the Human Rights Council. Since 2015, he has been the President of UPR Info. He was convener of the Workin ...
(India),
Vugar Mammadov (Azerbaijan) and
Jean Ziegler
Jean Ziegler (; born Hans Ziegler, 19 April 1934) is a Swiss former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris, and former vice-president of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council. He ...
(Switzerland). De Zayas presented his first report to the UN Human Rights Council at its 21st session in September 2012, calling for uniform application of international law. He presented his interim report to the General Assembly on 2 November 2012 and will present his new report to the council during the 24th session in September 2013.
[http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session24/A-HRC-24-38_en.pdf]
References
External links
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