Nada Al-Nashif, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, currently serving as acting High Commissioner, will present the High Commissioner’s oral update at 9 a.m. on Monday, 12 September in room XX.
At an organizational meeting held on 30 August in preparation for the session, the President of the Council, Federico Villegas, bid farewell to High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, whose term of office ended on 31 August.
He thanked her for the work she had done over the past four years, noting that her personal commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights had allowed her Office to continue nurturing the functioning of all the mechanisms of the United Nations human rights system, including this Council, under very difficult geopolitical circumstances.
He said that while Ms. Bachelet would be missed, as consolation, he knew that she would continue to make history and that wherever she was and in whatever position she may occupy, she would continue to champion human rights, projecting her example and inspiring the struggle of all those who sought a better world.