rapporteur
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Etymology
Origin of rapporteur
1490–1500; < French, derivative of rapporter. See rapport, -eur
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Dr Alice Edwards is the UN's special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and Mai Sato is the special rapporteur on human rights in Iran.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
The UN Human Rights Council was holding an interactive dialogue between nations and the council's special rapporteur on rights in Iran and its fact-finding mission on the country.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
Last month the United Nations General Assembly received a report from Reem Alsalem, its special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, calling for global abolition of surrogacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, was blunt.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
Precisely the counsellor designated as rapporteur in the affair of Beaumarchais by la Blache was one of the least scrupulous members of that strange parliament.
From Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence by Kite, Elizabeth S.
Dong has been prosecuted by Chinese authorities for his human-rights activism and advocacy of democratic freedoms, according to a 2022 letter by United Nations special rapporteurs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Though appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, special rapporteurs are independent experts and do not speak on behalf of the United Nations itself.
From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 2026
Plans to build the dam were first approved in 2012, according to a United Nations special rapporteurs letter to the Chinese government.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024
A group of UN special rapporteurs also expressed alarm in November.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2023
But this, your excellency assures me, proves nothing but that I am a listener to "rapporteurs," whom I ought to drive from my presence.
From The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B., Admiral of the Red, Rear-Admiral of the Fleet, Etc., Etc. Vol. I by Bourne, H. R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox)
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