Leandro Despouy is an Argentine

Argentina

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 human rights

Human rights

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 lawyer. He was the United Nations

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 Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers from August 2003 until end of July 2009
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Despouy was one of the five authors of a report on human rights abuses committed against the extrajudicial captives the United States

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 detains at its naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

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He played a significant role for the recognition of extreme poverty as a human rights

Human rights

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issue within the United Nations system.
Despouy is the president of Auditoria General de la Nación of Argentina republic.