Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Foreign Minister George Gerapatritis is scheduled to participate in the high-level segment of the 55th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday.

On the sidelines of the summit, Gerapatritis will engage in meetings with the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk, and the Executive Vice President of the World Jewish Council Maram Stern.

President Rumen Radev goes to Geneva to participate in the 41st Session of the UN Human Rights Council. Bulgaria is a member for the first time since the establishment of the intergovernmental body.

On 24 and 25 June, President Rumen Radev will visit the Swiss Confederation for the 41st Session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Minister Delegate for European Affairs George Ciamba had a meeting in Geneva on Thursday with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, in which he voiced Romania's firm commitment as holder of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union to promote respect for human rights, to combat hate speech, anti-Semitism, racism, and intolerance.

The Foreign Ministry has slammed the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for questioning the Turkish government's motives in calling snap elections on June 24, rescheduled to be held under the state of emergency a year-and-a-half before the original date. 

The UN chief made the appeal in a speech to the General Assembly in New York  on Tuesday, ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

Turkey has issued a strongly worded response to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein after he penned a report calling on Ankara to immediately lift the state of emergency, accusing him of relegating "the U.N. body under his administration into a position of collaborating with terrorist organizations."

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó  urges UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid bin Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein, to resign, Focus reports. During his speech in Geneva, the commissioner publicly accused Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of xenophobia and racism, writes Magyar Hirlap.

The government has adopted a decision to provide a substantial sum, amounting to BGN 723 030, through international development cooperation and humanitarian crisis resolution. The funds are granted as official development assistance, which is a commitment of our country as a member state of the European Union.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein voiced deep concern on May 1 at mass arrests, sackings and the renewal of the state of emergency in Turkey, saying terror should not be tackled at the expense of human rights.