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===United Nations=== Callamard was the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, appointed by the [[UN Human Rights Council]] resolution A/HRC/RES/35/15 of 22 June 2017 for a 3 years mandate and finishing on 31 March 2021.<ref name=OHCHR-PhilippinesDrugs-2016>{{cite news|last1=Vukovic|first1=Brenda|title=UN experts urge the Philippines to stop unlawful killings of people suspected of drug-related offences|url=http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20388|work=[[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights|Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)]]|date=18 August 2016|format=Press release}}</ref> In 2019 she led the [https://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Executions/Pages/Inquiry.aspx human rights inquiry] into the [[Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi|assassination]] of Saudi journalist [[Jamal Khashoggi]]. Her findings were presented to the UN Human Rights Council in June 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/the-crown-prince-of-saudi-arabia/transcript/? |title=The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=pbs.org |access-date=1 October 2019}}</ref> After the report was published, she said that a senior Saudi official twice threatened to have her killed if she was not reined in by the UN.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kirchgaessner|first=Stephanie|date=2021-03-23|title=Top Saudi official issued death threat against UN's Khashoggi investigator|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/23/top-saudi-official-issued-death-threat-against-uns-khashoggi-investigator|access-date=2021-03-23|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> She concluded that the drone strike on Iranian General [[Qasem Soleimani]] was unlawful as part of advance version of her report on "Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions" for the Forty-fourth session of the Human Rights Council.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53345885|title=Qasem Soleimani: US strike on Iran general was unlawful, UN expert says |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= 9 July 2020|website=[[BBC]] |access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref>
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