16 US Human Rights Experts, Current and Former Members of UN Bodies

The authors are US human rights experts, current and former members of UN Bodies:

Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights (2014 – 2020), UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (2004 – 2010)

James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2018 – 2014)

Karima Bennoune, UN Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights (2015 – 2021)

Dominique Day, Member, UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (2018 – 2024)

Ariel Dulitzky, Member, UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (2010 – 2017)

Claudia Flores, Vice-Chair, UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls (2023 – present)

David A. Kaye, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression (2014 – 2020)

John H. Knox, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment (2012 – 2018)

Gay J. McDougall, Vice Chair, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (2021-2025, 2015-2019, 1997-2001), UN Special Rapporteur on Minorities (2005-2011)

Juan Mendez, Member, UN Independent Expert Mechanism on Law Enforcement and Racism (2021 – 2024), UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2010 – 2016)

Marcos A. Orellana, UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights (2020 – present)

Diane Orentlicher, UN Independent Expert on Combatting Impunity (2004 – 2005)

Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing (2020 – present)

Gabor Rona, Chair, UN Working Group on Mercenaries (2011 – 2019)

Margaret Satterthwaite, UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (2022 – present)

Baskut Tuncak, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Hazardous Wastes (2014 – 2020)