Mandate-holder Mandate Terms in office Joe Frans Working Group on people of African descent July 2006 (first term) Leandro Despouy Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers August 2006 (first term) Hina Jilani Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights defenders August 2006 (second term) Soledad Villagra de Biedermann Working Group on Arbitrary Detention August 2006 (second term) Miloon Kothari Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living September 2006 (second term) Jean Ziegler Special Rapporteur on the right to food September 2006 (second term) Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar December 2006 (second term) Darko Göttlicher Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances January 2007 (first term) Tamás Bán Working Group on Arbitrary Detention April 2007 (second term) Ghanim Alnajjar Independent Expert appointed by the Secretary-General on the situation of human rights in Somalia May 2007 (second term) John Dugard Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 June 2007 (second term) Rodolfo Stavenhagen Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people June 2007 (second term) Arjun Sengupta Independent Expert on the question of human rights and extreme poverty July 2007 (first term) Akich Okola Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi July 2007 (first term) Titinga Frédéric Pacéré Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo July 2007 (first term) Philip Alston Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions July 2007 (first term) Asma Jahangir Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief July 2007 (first term)