GA Opens Discussion on Human Rights Treaty Body System

Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly, speaks at the opening of the thematic discussion on strengthening and enhancing the effective functioning of the human rights treaty body system (co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Iceland and Indonesia, with the support of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights). Also speaking on the panel are, from left: Abdelhamid El Jamri, Chair of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW); Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Yusra Khan, Deputy Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the UN; Greta Gunnarsdottir, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the UN; and Mousa Burayzat (far right), Chair of the International Coordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC).