Geneva
Permanent Mission of Finland, Geneva
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk will visit Finland from 18 to 19 December. He will meet Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto, who will be hosting the visit, and Prime Minister Sanna Marin.
United Nations Human Rights Council, 35th Special Session; The deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially with respect to women and children, Nordic – Baltic Statement, Delivered by Permanent Representative Kirsti Kauppi, 24 November 2022.
Opening statement by Minister Pekka Haavisto at the Fourth Universal Periodic Review of Finland at the UN Human Rights Council on 9 November 2022.
Recent crises underline the importance of development cooperation as a key instrument of foreign and security policy, according to Finland’s Development Policy Results Report submitted to Parliament on 9 November.
Finland will support the grain shipments of the World Food Programme (WFP) from Ukraine to Somalia. At the same time, Finland will increase its humanitarian assistance to the Horn of Africa, where more than 20 million people are in need of urgent food aid.
Finland’s human rights record will be examined in the Universal Periodic Review by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on 9 November. The review gives UN Member States the opportunity to ask Finland questions about our human rights record and give Finland recommendations. Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto will head Finland’s interministerial delegation.
51st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council: Statement by Finland, Delivered by Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi, Permanent Representative of Finland, 6 October 2022.
51st session of the Human Rights Council; Interactive Dialogue on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia. Nordic-Baltic Statement, delivered by Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi, Permanent Representative of Finland, 5 October 2022.
51st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council: ID Racial justice and equality in law enforcement, 3.10.2022.
51st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, ITEM 8, General Debate: Statement by Finland, Delivered by Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi, Permanent Representative of Finland, 3 October 2022.
