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Joel Aristide\nCôte d'Ivoire, Ms. Ahou Rosine Kangah\nIndonesia, Ms. Indah Nuria Savitri\nBelgium, Mr. Christophe Payot\nPromotion du Développement Economique et Social - PDES, Ms. Aicha Duihi\nHuman Rights Watch, Mr. Nicola\nPaccamiccio\nRajasthan\nSamgrah Kalyan Sansthan, Mr. Satya Narayan Sharma\nMr. Martin Chungong, Secretary-General\nof the Inter-Parliamentary Union\nMs. Beatriz Carrillo de los Reyes,\nDirector General for Equal Treatment and Non-Discrimination and against Racism\nat the Ministry of Equality of Spain\nMr. James Ndirangu Waweru,\nChair-Rapporteur of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective\nImplementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action\nMs.\nKetty Marcelo López, President of the Organization of Ashaninka Indigenous\nWomen of the central Amazon region of Peru (Closing remarks)\n\n- ITEM 1: High-level segment (Cont'd)\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nMr.\nMarcos Gómez Martínez, Vice-President of the Human Rights Council (Opening)\nH.E. Mr. Sokhonn Prak, Deputy Prime\nMinister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of\nCambodia\nH.E. Ms. Tanja Fajon, Deputy Prime\nMinister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovenia\nH.E. Ms. Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner, Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation,\nFrancophonie and the Congolese Diaspora - Democratic Republic of the Congo\nH.E. Ms. Alessandra Locatelli,\nMinister for Disabilities of Italy\nH.E. Mr. Juraj Blanár, Minister of\nForeign and European Affairs of Slovakia\nH.E. Mr. Osman Saleh Mohammed,\nMinister of Foreign Affairs of Eritrea\nH.E. Mr. Espen Barth Eide, Minister of\nForeign Affairs of Norway\nH.E.\nMr. Youssef Rajji, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants of the Republic of\nLebanon","categories":["Meetings & Events","Human Rights Council","Regular Sessions","61st Session"],"geographic_subject":[],"subject_topical":["HUMAN RIGHTS"],"corporate_name":["UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - UNHRC"],"speaker_affiliation":[],"related_documents":[{"title":"More information","url":"https://www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies/hrc/regular-sessions/session61/regular-session"},{"title":"Schedule","url":"https://hrc61session2026.sched.com/"}]},"transcript":null,"message":"No transcript available"}