Special Rapporteur is a title given to individuals working on behalf of various regional and international organizations who bear specific mandates to investigate, monitor and recommend solutions to specific human rights problems.
There currently exist:
- UN Special Rapporteurs (United Nations)
- AU Special Rapporteurs (African Union)
- OAS Special Rapporteurs (Organization of American States)
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“Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that “It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces.””
—Matthew Tindal (1653–1733)
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