Stephen James Anaya is an American lawyer who served as the 16th Dean of the University of Colorado Boulder Law School. He was formerly the James J. Lenoir Professor of Human Rights Law and Policy at
Special rapporteur is the title that the United Nations gives to independent human rights experts called to report or advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective.
James Anaya
…served for more than ten years on the faculty at the University of Iowa College of Law. In March 2008, he was appointed by the United Nations as its Special Rapporteur on the situation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, replacing Rodolfo Stavenhagen. He was elected a Member of the…
Christof Heyns, then-special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions and Maina Kìai, then-special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association (2015).
The meetings of the United Nations Human Rights Council take place in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room of the Palace of Nations, Geneva.