Nov. 01, 2007: United Nations - Special Procedures - Nomination, Selection and Appointment of Mandate Holders

Publish Date: 
Friday, August 3, 2012

The Human Rights Council (HRC) of the United Nations established a new procedure in the nomination, slection and appointment of Mandate Holders.
According to Human Rights Council resolution 5/1, Annex, the following general criteria will be of paramount importance while nominating, selecting and appointing mandate-holders: (a) expertise; (b) experience in the field of the mandate; (c) independence; (d) impartiality; (e) personal integrity; and(f) objectivity.
Further to Council decision 6/102 the Secretariat has prepared a standardized form, on the basis of the technical and objective requirements stipulated in the decision, for candidates to fill in, so as to facilitate the selection of relevant candidacies from the public list as soon as appointments for particular mandates are necessary.
As called for in Council resolution 5/1, Annex, the Secretariat will maintain a public list which shall be regularly updated and included on the HRC webpage.
Those entities which may nominate candidates as special procedures mandate-holders according to Council resolution 5/1, Annex, are: (a) Governments; (b) Regional Groups operating within the United Nations human rights system; (c) international organizations or their offices (e.g. the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights); (d) non-governmental organizations;(e) other human rights bodies; (f) individual nominations.
Candidatures to special procedures mandates may reach the Secretariat at the following address: hrcspecialprocedures@ohchr.org or HRC Secretariat, c/o Orest Nowosad (Mailing address: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Room 4-093, Palais des Nations, 8-14 avenue de la Paix, CH-1211, Geneva 10; Tel: +41 (0)22 917 9223; Fax: +41 (0)22 917 9011).

URL: 
http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/special/nominations.htm
Facilitator: 
Human Rights Council - United Nations