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As number of Special Rapporteur mandates passes the 50 mark, new study highlights need for renewed support and reform

by the URG team Human rights institutions and mechanisms, Prensa, Special Procedures

Wednesday 19th March 2014, Geneva The United Nations’ (UN) independent human rights experts – otherwise known as ‘Special Procedures’ – are considered by many to be, in the words of then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the ‘crown jewel’ of the international human rights system. From their first appearance in 1967 when the Commission on Human Rights established an Ad Hoc …