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Print    UN AUTHORITY FIGURES The leaders of Libya, Sudan, Iran and North Korea are some of the long list of dictators, despots and human rights violators in UN leadership positions – positions that entail responsibilities diametrically opposed to their incumbents' qualifications. Here are only a few of today's UN authority figures: Human Rights Council's Working Group on Communications: Vladimir Kartashkin of Russia Human Rights Council's Working Group on Communications: Miguel Alfonso Martínez of Cuba Human Rights Council's Working Group on Communications: Chen Shiqiu of China Human Rights Council Advisory Committee Chairperson: Miguel Alfonso Martínez of Cuba Human Rights Council Advisory Committee Expert: Jean Ziegler Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories: Richard Falk Human Rights Council President: Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi of Nigeria Human Rights Council Vice-President and Rapporteur: Elchin Amirbayov of Azerbaijan Human Rights Council's Working Group on Situations: Member Mousa Burayzat of Jordan Human Rights Council's Working Group on Situations: Angola Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Chair: Sudan UN Security Council: Libya Committee on Information: China, Kazakhstan Commission for Social Development: North Korea Commission on the Status of Women: Qatar, Togo, United Arab Emirates Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice: Libya, Russia UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Board: Myanmar UN Development Programme Executive Board: Algeria Human Rights Council's Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances: Member Saied Rajaie Khorasani of Iran UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) Governing Council: Zimbabwe UN High Commissioner for Refugees Executive Committee: Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan International Labour Organization Governing Body: Employer Member Abdullah S. Dahlan of Saudi Arabia World Food Programme Executive Board: Zimbabwe World Food Programme Executive Board: Sudan   Archive 2008 U.N. Disarmament Commission Rapporteur: Syria U.N. Disarmament Commission Vice-Chairman: Iran U.N. General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security Vice-Chairperson: Syria U.N. General Assembly Vice-President: Democratic Republic of the Congo U.N. General Assembly Vice-President: Egypt U.N. General Assembly Vice-President: Turkmenistan U.N. Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Member Seyed Mohammad Hashemi, Deputy Minister of Development and Interior of Iran Since 2002 U.N. International Labour Organization Governing Body: Saudi Arabia 2007 International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference, Vice-President: Syria U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) Board, Vice-President: Myanmar U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) Board: China U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development: Sudan U.N. Development Programme Executive Board: Kazakhstan U.N. Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law Advisory Committee: Iran U.N. Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law Advisory Committee: Lebanon U.N. Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law Advisory Committee: Sudan

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