UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, will visit the Norwegian Human Rights House in Oslo on Friday 3 December. The High Commissioner will meet the NGO Forum for human rights and talk about transitional justice and protection of human rights. (30-NOV-04)
Louise Arbour wil also have meetings with the Norwegian Government and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.
A Canadian Supreme Court Justice and ex-prosecutor of United Nations war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, Ms. Arbour succeeded Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Baghdad August 2003.
The High Commissioner is the principal UN official with responsibility for human rights and is accountable to the Secretary- General. The post of High Commissioner was created in 1993. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is based at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland, with an office at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
About the meeting at the Human Rights House (Norwegian language only)
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