UN Special Investigator

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A UN Special Investigator is a UN appointee, charged with investigations or auditing in a specific matter.

Often his focus concerns Human Rights, or rather

• some type of violation thereof, such as: Food rights, the right to Health, Human traficking, Illegal and arbitrary Executions, Migrants rights, Racism, Religious Rights, Sale of children, Child prostitution and child pornography, Children's rights, Torture
• or Human Rights in a specific country (e.g. war crimes in Bosnia, Canada's Indigenous people, Congo's civil wars, Myanmar, Sudan's civil wars, Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Iran).

In other cases it is a specific, politically relevant fact, scandal or event, such as Israel's construction of a security wall in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, how the US Bush administration spent Iraqi oil-for-food program money after the invasion, the alleged involvement of the Syrian government in political murders in Lebanon