Rodolfo Stavenhagen

Rodolfo Stavenhagen (29 August 1932 – 5 November 2016)[1] was a German-born Mexican sociologist and anthropologist who specialized in the study of human rights and the political relations between indigenous peoples and states.

In 2001 he was appointed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights the first United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people through Resolution 2001/57.

He was succeeded by Prof S. James Anaya of the University of Arizona.

[4][5][6][7] He taught as a visiting professor at Harvard and Stanford and the UNAM.

The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) awarded its Honorary Fellowship to Rodolfo Stavenhagen in 1982.