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Michel Forst

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Michel Forst is the current United Nations Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders. He is also the Secretary general of the French national human rights institution.

After graduating in language, theology and in health studies, Michel Forst starts his career teaching German. Then, he started as director of social healthcare institutions in the field of childcare, the elderly and extreme-poverty.

He becomes in 1989 the executive director of Amnesty International-France where he remains for ten years. During this period, he's actively involved in many different human rights projects, in particular in the organisation of the first summit on human rights defenders in Paris in 1998[1]. This event is held as the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of human rights.

In 1999, he becomes the executive director of La Ligue contre le cancer (The French league against cancer). He stays in this organisation until 2001 when he starts at the UNESCO as chief of states in the field of social sciences and humanities[2]. He becomes in 2003 secretary general of La Cimade, a French organisation specialized in helping migrants and asylum seekers. He leaves the structure in 2005 to become the Secretary general of the French national human rights institution[3]. Michel Forst is also a funding member of Front Line Defenders, an Irish non governmental organisation based in Dublin and a former member of the Board of the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR).

Action with the United Nations

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In 2008, Michel Forst is appointed independent expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti. He resigns from this position in 2013 before the end of his mandate[4].

From 2012 to 2013, he is the chair of the the Chair of the Coordination Committee of the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council[5].

He becomes in June 2014 the United Nations Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders[6]. This mandate was created by the then United Nations Commission on Human rights in 2000[7]. Part of his mandate is to promote the Declaration on human rights defenders. His main mission as an independent expert is to inform on the risks and threats human rights defenders face on the ground[8]. He also makes recommendations so as to better protect human rights defenders. He undertakes country visits, regularly presents reports to the Human rights Council and to the United Nations General assembly. He can also take up individual cases of concern. He carries out his mission in cooperation with States, international structures and civil society organizations.

See also

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OHCRH

United Nations Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders

Amnesty International

Front Line Defenders

References

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  1. « Document | Amnesty International », sur www.amnesty.org (consulté le )
  2. « 61st Annual DPI/NGO Conference », sur www.un.org (consulté le )
  3. « http://www.nhri.net/pdf/EGnews1_E.pdf », sur www.nhri.net (consulté le )
  4. « Michel Forst, UN Human Rights Expert in Haiti, Tenders Resignation » (consulté le )
  5. « Statement by the Chair of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures, Mr. Michel Forst, on behalf of all Special Procedures mandate holders at the High-level panel on human rights mainstreaming at the twenty-second session of the Human Rights Council », sur www.ohchr.org (consulté le )
  6. « Independent Expert on Haiti », sur www.ohchr.org (consulté le )
  7. « "Ten years on, human rights defenders continue to pay a high price” », sur www.ohchr.org (consulté le )
  8. « Mandate », sur www.ohchr.org (consulté le )