United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner Seoul (OHCHR Seoul) will have an Australian human rights adviser as its new head, ending a two-year leadership vacuum. According to Voice of America, a spokesperson for the office of the U.N. Secretary General said Tuesday that it has appointed James Heenan as the head of OHCHR Seoul, without specifying his term.
India pulled up Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and expressed its concern over the “lack of measurable progress” by the government of the nation in implementing its commitments for a political solution to the ethnic conflict in the country.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will propose Austria's Volker Turk to be the next High Commissioner for Human Rights, a UN document showed.