Sub Commissions
- remit
See provisional agenda for 2001. Generally speaking, the Sub-Commission:
- initiates substantive human rights studies
- receives the reports of its Special Rapporteurs and Working Groups
- draws up new human rights standards.
- identifies violations of human rights throughout the world. There is some overlap with the work of the Commission, for which the Sub-Commission acts as a think-tank, but the Sub-Commission, in some capacities, has functioned as an autonomous body.
- established
- 1947
- current members (name, country of origin, date mandate expires)
- Mr Miguel ALFONSO MARTÍNEZ&Mr Juan Antonio Fernández Palacios (Cuba 2004)
- Mr José BENGOA&Mr Alejandro Enrique Salinas Rivera (Chile 2002)
- Ms Erica-Irene DAES&Ms Kalliopi Koufa(Greece 2002)
- Mr Asbjørn Eide&Mr Jan Helgesen(Norway 2004)
- Mr FAN Guoxiang(China 2002)
- Mr Héctor FIX-ZAMUDIO&Mr Alonso Gómez-Robledo Verduzco(Mexico 2002)
- Mr Rajendra Kalidas Wimala GOONESEKERE&Ms Deepika Udagama (Sri Lanka 2002)
- Mr El Hadji GUISSÉ(Senegal 2002)
- Ms Françoise Jane HAMPSON&Ms Helena Cook (UK 2002)
- Mr Louis JOINET&Mr Emmanuel Decaux (France 2002)
- Ms Iulia Antoanella MOTOC&Ms Victoria Sandru-Popescu (Romania 2004)
- Mr Stanislav OGURTSOV(Belarus 2004)
- Mr Joseph OLOKA-ONYANGO (Uganda 2002)
- Mr Soo Gil PARK&Ms Chin Sung Chung (Rep of Korea 2004)
- Mr Paulo Sérgio PINHEIRO&Ms Marília Sardenberg Zelner Gonçalves (Brazil 2002)
- Mr Godfrey Bayour PREWARE&Ms Christy Ezim Mbonu (Nigeria 2004)
- Mr Teimuraz RAMISHVILI&Mr Vladimir Kartashkin Russian Federation 2002)
- Mr Manuel RODRÍGUEZ CUADROS(Peru 2004)
- Mr Yeung Kam Yeung SIK YEUN(Mauritius 2002)
- Mr Soli Jehangir SORABJEE(India 2002)
- Mr Fried VAN HOOF&Ms Lammy Betten(Netherlands 2004)
- Ms Halima Embarek WARZAZI(Morocco 2004)
- Mr David WEISSBRODT&Ms Barbara Frey (USA 2004)
- Mr Fisseha YIMER (Ethiopia 2004)
- Mr Yozo YOKOTA&Ms Yoshiko Terao (Japan 2004)
- Ms Leila&ZERROUGUI (Algeria 2004)
- how nominated
- Independent experts nominated by Member States
- how elected
- Elected by the Commission on Human Rights for a period of 4 years. Half the Sub-Commission stands down every 2 years.
- reports to
- Commission on Human Rights
- meets
- Annually in Geneva for 3 weeks in August. It will meet from 30th July to 17th August 2001
- un address
- Office of the
- High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Palais des Nations
- United Nations
- 8 -14 Avenue de la Paix
- 1211 Geneva 10
- Switzerland
- submissions by
- May - only NGOs with consultative status have access, see the human rights machinery of the un
- secretarIAT
- Mr Guennadi LEBAKINE Ms Y POC
(Also, each Special Rapporteur and Working Group has its own Assistant or Secretary – see relevant table)
- ROOM NUMBER
- 1-053/1-043
- telephone
- 00 41 22 917 9328 00 41 22 917 9337
- fax
- 00 41 22 917 9011 00 41 22 917 9011
- glebakine.hchr@unog.ch
- ypoc.hchr@unog.ch
- other remarks
- See the human rights machinery of the un