Ian Martin

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Ian Martin, from the United Kingdom, is a human rights activist who has been involved in a number of human rights organisations. He is currently the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Nepal for the United Nations Mission in Nepal.

He has been:

• Secretary-General of Amnesty International from 1986 to 1992.
• Director-General of The UN/OAS International Civilian Mission in Haiti, 1993 and 1994-5.
• Chief of the UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda, 1995-96.
• Deputy High Representative for Human Rights in the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1998-99.
• Special Adviser to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Human Rights Field Operations, 1998.
• Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the East Timor Popular Consultation and Head of the UN Mission in East Timor May-November, 1999.
• Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, 2000-2001.
• Representative in Nepal of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2005- 2006.
• Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Timor-Leste, 2006.
• Head of United Nations Mission to Nepal(UNMIN).

[edit] External links

• Ian Martin's page on the Human Rights Centre.

Preceded by Thomas Hammarberg

Secretary-General of Amnesty International 1986–1992

Succeeded by Pierre Sané