rights crisis and the suspected ethnic cleansing of the minority population by the Myanmar government. Rae will be advising the prime minister on the issue and was expected to attempt to obtain permission from Myanmar to visit Rakhine province. He also has a mandate "to promote accountability for alleged crimes perpetrated against vulnerable populations, including the Rohingya Muslim community, other religious and ethnic minorities, and women and girls". On March 10, 2020, Prime Minister Trudeau expanded Rae's role naming him as Canada’s Special Envoy on Humanitarian and Refugee Issues. On July 6, 2020, Trudeau named him Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations. In November 2020, Rae called on the UN to investigate evidence of genocide against the Uighur minority in China. Electoral record Toronto Centre **as compared to the 2006 General Election York South Broadview—Greenwood Broadview Honours Commonwealth honours Foreign honours Honorary degrees Appointments Awards Memberships and Fellowships References External links Bob Rae fonds, Archives of Ontario Robert Keith Rae oral history interview held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services Bob Rae Wins Maclean's Parliamentarian of the Year Award Bob Rae at The Canadian Encyclopedia Bob Rae biography – Canada Premier Bob Rae biography – Oxford University Bob Rae 1990 Government Presentation – Radio-Canada Bob Rae – Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians 1948 births Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Canadian Anglicans Canadian King's Counsel Canadian people of Scottish-Jewish descent Canadian people of English descent Canadian people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Canadian Rhodes Scholars Canadian university and college chancellors Canadian Zionists Canadian memoirists Lawyers in Ontario Leaders of the Ontario New Democratic Party Liberal Party of Canada leadership candidates Liberal Party of Canada MPs Living people Massey College, Toronto Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Members of the Order of Ontario Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada New Democratic Party MPs Ontario New Democratic Party MPPs Officers of the Order of Canada Politicians from Ottawa Politicians from Toronto Premiers of Ontario Recipients of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana, 3rd Class University of Toronto alumni University of Toronto Faculty of Law alumni University of Toronto faculty Companions of the Order of Canada 21st-century Canadian politicians Canadian diplomats Permanent Representatives of Canada to the United Nations 21st-century Canadian pianists International School of Geneva alumni