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Narinjara News, 12 May 2020
Yanghee Lee has ended her term as Special Rapporteur on Myanmar for the United Nations, and has been replaced by Mr Thomas H. Andrews.
Ms Lee, who finished
her role as special rapporteur on April 30, has been replaced by a former
member of the US Congress, Thomas H.
Andrews, according to news reports in VOA (Burmese).
The
United Nations Human Rights Council has appointed the ex-congressman Thomas H.
Andrews as the new Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in
Myanmar.
The new Special Rapporteur was a member of the
US Congress for the State of Maine from 1991 to 1995.
Mr
Andrews also has a Washington based consultancy, Andrews Strategic Services.
According
to the UN announcement, the new special rapporteur for Myanmar has worked with
the National Democratic Institute that works to strengthen democratic
institutions. He has also worked with NGOs and political parties in countries
including Cambodia, Indonesia, Algeria, Croatia, Serbia, Ukraine and Yemen.
He has served as
General Secretary of "The Nobel Peace Laureate Campaign for Aung San Suu
Kyi and the People of Burma" in 2001 and was a consultant for the National
Coalition Government of the Union of Burma and the Euro-Burma Network. He has
run advocacy NGOs including Win Without War and United to End Genocide.