rapporteur
- noun
- /ræpɔːrˈtɜːr/
- Formal
- For example, the UN Special Rapporteur and the Human Rights Council have defined the human rights responsibilities of pharmaceutical companies.
- Special Rapporteur
- UN Special Rapporteur
- Nations Special Rapporteur
Examples
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As a rapporteur, she was responsible for presenting the group's recommendations to the board.
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Some treaty bodies have also called for antitrafficking legislation in the GCC states, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Trafficking repeated this recommendation.
Academic text (2016) -
For example, in 2000, the UN Human Rights Commission appointed a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.
Academic text (2007) -
India should be required to cooperate with the UN human rights working groups and special rapporteurs in all human rights investigations.
Academic text (1995) -
The U.N. special Rapporteur has called drone strikes extrajudicial killings.
Blog text (30) -
In June 2001, M. Kalliopi K. Koufa, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for the Commission on Human Rights, wrote a report called Terrorism and Human Rights.
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The concept of a human right to health was first articulated in 1946, but it was not until 2002 that the UN appointed the first UN Special Rapporteur on "the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health."
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The committee appointed a rapporteur to summarize the findings of their latest meeting.
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The rapporteur submitted a comprehensive report detailing the outcomes of the conference.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rapporteur comes from the French rapport ('report') and the ending -eur, which names a person who does a job. So a rapporteur is literally someone who makes and brings a report, which is why a committee chooses a rapporteur to collect, summarize and present the group's findings.