David Kaye (law professor)

David Kaye
David Kaye, May 2015

UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression
Incumbent
Assumed office August 2014
Preceded by	Frank William La Rue

David Kaye is the current UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, a post he has held since August 2014.^[1] He is clinical professor of law at the University of California, Irvine.^[2]

References

↑ "Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression". Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. UN.
↑ "David Kaye: Clinical Professor of Law". UC Irivine.

United Nations Special Rapporteurs

Countries and territories	Burundi (Fatsah Ouguergouz) Cambodia (Surya Prasad Subedi) Haiti (Michel Forst) Myanmar (Tomas Ojea Quintana) North Korea (Marzuki Darusman) Palestine (Makarim Wibisono) Somalia (Shamsul Bari) Sudan (Mohamed Chande Othman) Iran (Ahmed Shaheed)

Thematic mandates	Adequate Housing (Raquel Rolnik) Contemporary Forms of Slavery (Gulnara Shahinian) Cultural Rights (Farida Shaheed) Democratic and Equitable International Order (Alfred-Maurice de Zayas) Education (Kishore Singh) Effects of Economic Reform Policies and Foreign Debt on Human Rights (Cephas Lumina) Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions (Christof Heyns) Right to Food (Olivier De Schutter) Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association (Maina Kiai) Freedom of Opinion and Expression (David Kaye) Freedom of Religion or Belief (Heiner Bielefeldt) Human Rights Defenders (Margaret Sekaggya) Independence of Judges and Lawyers (Gabriela Carina Knaul de Albuquerque e Silva) Minority Issues (Rita Izsak) Physical and Mental Health (Anand Grover) Protecting Human Rights while Countering Terrorism (Ben Emmerson) Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (Githu Muigai) Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (Najat M’jid Maala) Torture (Juan E. Méndez) Trafficking in Persons (Joy Ngozi Ezeilo) Violence against Women (Rashida Manjoo) Human Rights and Access to Safe Drinking water and Sanitation (Catarina de Albuquerque) Human Rights and International Solidarity (Rudi Muhammad Rizki) Human Rights and the Illicit Movement of Toxic Waste (Calin Georgescu) Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises (John Ruggie) Human Rights of Indigenous People (James Anaya) Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (Chaloka Beyani) Human Rights of Migrants (François Crépeau) Human Rights and the Environment

United Nations Special Rapporteurs bear mandates from the United Nations Human Rights Council and may hold the titles Special Rapporteur, Independent Expert or Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and are also referred to simply as mandate-holders

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