Foreign Minister Stubb to attend the Human Rights Council session

Press release 63/2011
25 February 2011

Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb will be present at the Sixteenth Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, 28 February. Dozens of foreign ministers from all over the world will take part in the high-level segment to debate topical human rights issues. Attention is expected to focus particularly on the human rights situation in North Africa. Minister Stubb will also discuss this topic in his speech.

The Human Rights Council is the UN’s most important inter-governmental human rights body. Its mission is to address situations of human rights violations and to promote the protection of human rights and basic freedoms the world over.

During his trip Minister Stubb will also deliver a speech at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.

Additional information: Sofie From-Emmesberger, Head of the Unit for Human Rights Policy, mobile tel. +358 40 568 8641, and Lauri Tierala, Press Attaché to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, mobile tel. +358 40 841 7141