UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk to conduct official visit to Ecuador 22-23 January 2023

GENEVA (20 January 2023) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk will conduct a two-day official mission to Ecuador starting on Sunday 22 January, at the invitation of the Government.  

During his visit, the first by a High Commissioner for Human Rights to Ecuador, Türk will meet senior Government officials, representatives of civil society, human rights defenders, and indigenous leaders, as well as representatives of the international community.

He will also attend an event hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility in Quito to mark the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This will include a conversation between Türk and Ambassador José Ayala Lasso who served as the first UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1994-1997.

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