Fijian is new President of The Human Rights Council

Fiji’s Nazhat Shameem Khan is the new President of The Human Rights Council.

The Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations Office at Geneva was elected after a secret ballot.

She received 29 votes, Yusuf Abdulkarim Bucheeri of Bahrain got 14 votes and Ulugbek Lapasov of Uzbekistan received 4 votes.

Mrs Khan will be in office for the year 2021 and takes office immediately.