Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein assumed his functions as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sept. 1, 2014, following the General Assembly’s approval on June 16, 2014 of his appointment by the United Nations Secretary-General. He is the sixth High Commissioner to lead the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the first Asian, Muslim, and Arab to do so.
Any person or company that invests in infrastructure projects that hinder the safe, sustainable return of Myanmar's refugees may be complicit in ethnic cleansing, writes the UN's human rights chief.
