Publication
American Journal of International Law
Volume
80
Page
685
Year
1986
Abstract
In March 1982, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights initiated the appointment of a Special Rapporteur on Summary or Arbitrary Executions. The Special Rapporteur on Summary or Arbitrary Executions has done far more than merely study that grave human rights problem; he has received complaints about impending and past executions, issued appeals to governments about threatened executions and the need to investigate past killings, and reported publicly on much of his activity. The Commission on Human Rights not only has renewed the Special Rapporteur on Summary or Arbitrary Executions in its subsequent annual sessions, but has followed this precedent by appointing in 1985 a similar Special Rapporteur on Torture and in 1986 a Special Rapporteur on Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief.
Recommended Citation
David Weissbrodt, The Three "Theme" Special Rapporteurs of the UN Commission on Human Rights, 80 Am. J. Int'l L. 685 (1986), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/228.
