Ambassador Khan’s appointment is a victory for the basic rights of all climate-vulnerable people – PM
Ambassador Khan’s appointment is a victory for the basic rights of all climate-vulnerable people – PM
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan(middle)
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama says Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan’s successful election as President of the United Nations Human Rights Council is a victory for the basic rights of all climate-vulnerable people.
Bainimarama says government s fundamental assurance of equality for all Fijians placed human rights at the heart of our national development, leading to rapid progress at instituting rights-based protections and our historic position as the first Pacific Island member of the Human Rights Council.
OHCHR | Human Rights Council Elects Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji to serve as its President for 2021
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ACNUDH | Human Rights Council Elects Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji to serve as its President for 2021
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Nazhat Shameem Khan appointed President of UN Human Rights Council
Nazhat Shameem Khan appointed President of UN Human Rights Council
Nazhat Shameem Khan
The UN Human Rights Council has elected Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan to serve as its President for 2021.
Khan was elected through a secret ballot process through which all 47 members of the Geneva-based human rights body cast their vote to appoint its president for 2021 – the Council’s 15th annual cycle.
She got 29 votes.
Khan, whose presidency takes immediate effect, joins Ambassadors Keva Lorraine Bain of the Bahamas, Ali Ibn Abi Talib Abdelrahman Mahmoud of Sudan and Monique T.G. van Daalen of the Netherlands, who were elected on 16 December as Council vice-presidents, to serve on the Council Bureau for the current year.