rapporteur
Americannoun
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rapporteurs
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of rapporteur
1490–1500; < French, derivative of rapporter. See rapport, -eur
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International organizations registered concern, with the United Nations special rapporteur for the independence of judges calling the cuts “worrying news.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
"I think stronger focus would be a positive thing," Ben Saul, the UN special rapporteur on protecting rights while countering terrorism, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 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
Dr. Benes, as chairman and rapporteur of the sub-committee, made a general report on the sub-committee's work, and it was then agreed to discuss the articles seriatim.
From The Geneva Protocol by David Hunter Miller
UN special rapporteurs Dr Alice Edwards and Mai Sato said proceedings against Lindsay and Craig Foreman, from East Sussex, had been marked by grave irregularities.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
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
UN special rapporteurs are independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, but do not speak in the name of the United Nations itself.
From Barron's ● Jan. 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
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 H. R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox) Bourne
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