Sentence examples for rapporteurs from inspiring English sources

"I would remind you that the UK has a standing invitation to all UN special rapporteurs and has facilitated the visits of a number of these rapporteurs to the UK in recent years," she wrote in the letter.

Even the United Nations has weighed in, with two special rapporteurs attacking the government for stigmatising the homeless, fuelling prejudice and abusing their human rights.

Its task, notably, is to designate rapporteurs to look into suspected abuses in specific countries.

It passes resolutions and appoints special rapporteurs on particular issues or countries.

Already too many laws, even high-profile ones, are stitched up by committee rapporteurs and chairmen in a closed-door "trilogue" with representatives of the commission and the council, to be adopted in up-or-down votes in the plenary.

In the year to June 2011 it launched international investigations in Côte d'Ivoire, Libya and Syria; it appointed an investigator to monitor developments in Iran; and it extended the mandates of rapporteurs for Myanmar, Cambodia, Somalia and Sudan.Much of the credit for all this goes to Latin American countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico, along with Zambia and even tiny Maldives.

Indeed, shortly after the co-rapporteurs published their report in December, a presidential amnesty led to the release of 13 out of the 14 prisoners mentioned, leading Mr Agramunt to downplay the problem during the debate.

François Crépeau, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, said he had also seen bunk beds everywhere when he visited labour camps in November.

It's the antithesis of democracy Maina Kiai, UN rapporteur on the freedom of peaceful assembly The 23-year-old single mother says she withdrew from anti-racism campaigning as she was left "feeling violated, isolated, vulnerable and paranoid" by the attempted recruitment.

Maina Kiai, a UN special rapporteur on the freedom of peaceful assembly, called the monitoring of protest groups "raw, unvarnished intimidation and activist-busting.

According to the chambers' website, she has served as counsel to the inquiry led by UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson QC, into the use of drones, and as an adviser to Kofi Annan.