Appointment of mandate holder Christof Heyns : August 2010 – July 2016
Mandate renewed by A/HRC/RES/26/12
Summary of treaty provisions concerning the right to life
Communications
Click here to view the letters written by the mandate to States
Publications
“The long term human rights implications of targeted killings” Vol. 54 Harvard International Law Journal (2013) 101- 114 (with Sarah Knuckey, NYU)
Websites
Click here for official UN website
Click here for website on the use of force
Team
Current staff
Part of OHCHR
External staff member: Geneva
Part time: Geneva/South Africa
- Kathleen Hardy
Full-time in Pretoria
Part-time researchers
- Sarah Knuckey (New York)
- Toby Fisher (Pretoria/London)
- Stuart Maslen (United Kingdom/Pretoria)
- Meetali Jain (Cape Town)
- Paul Ogendi (Banjul)
- Yvonne Oyieke
Former staff members
- Romi Brammer
- Tess Borden
- Gus Waschefort