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The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) is planning to open a sub-office in Goma (DRC) to monitor the human rights situation in the area and advise authorities and NGOs on international human rights standards, a UNHCHR spokesman in Geneva told IRIN today (Thursday). “We are in the preliminary planning stages of establishing the sub-office”, the spokesman said. (An item in IRIN update 601 on relief to rebel-held areas erroneously referred to UNHCHR as UNHCR.)
Meanwhile, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the DRC, Roberto Garreton, is scheduled to arrive in Kinshasa on 16 February for a one-week mission. Following his visit, Garreton is expected to submit additional information on the country’s situation to the UN Human Rights Commission, which is scheduled to start its next session on 22 March, the spokesman said.
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