Baskut Tuncak

Baskut Tuncak is United Nations Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes, which is known as the Special Rapporteur on “toxics,” by the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council in 2014.
Background and education
Tuncak is an international attorney specializing in laws regarding toxic chemical and pollution-related matters.
Tuncak is a visiting scholar at American University’s Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C.
He is a senior researcher at the Raul Wallenberg Institute.
Tuncak has worked on international trade, human rights, intellectual property, investment and environmental laws in relation to the regulation of toxic chemicals and pollution.
He was Senior Attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).
Career
Tuncak has served in advisory roles with the UN Environment Program (UNEP), the U.S. Government.
He was appointed Special Rapporteur on the human rights implications of hazardous substances and wastes.
Tuncak was appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council in June 2014, and assumed the mandate in August 2014.
His mandate was renewed in September 2017 for a period of three years.

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