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
The same year, the UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders said the cases against her "appear to reflect an arbitrary use of the legal system to harass and intimidate".
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
News of Ahmadzada's arrest led to an outcry on social media, attracting the attention of Richard Bennett, the United Nations' special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan, who posted online calling for her immediate release.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 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
The ballot is still used in the elections to the National Assembly, but in the Assembly itself only in special cases, as e.g. in the election of a "rapporteur."
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
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
Special rapporteurs are independent experts mandated by the UN Human Rights Council to report their findings.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
But UN special rapporteurs, while tasked by the UN to examine and advise on specific situations, are independent of it.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 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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