UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Visit China, Cambodia, East Timor

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Visit China, Cambodia, East Timor

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson announced plans to visit China, Cambodia and East Timor from August 18 to 25, a UN press release said Thursday.

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson announced plans to visit China, Cambodia and East Timor from August 18 to 25, a UN press release said Thursday.

On her seventh visit as High Commissioner to China, Mary Robinson will open a workshop on August 18 for judges and lawyers to launch "an important new area of human rights cooperation between her Office and Chinese authorities," the press release said.

While in Beijing, Robinson will hold talks with King Norodom Sianouk of Cambodia before proceeding to Phnom Penh. During her stay there, from August 20 to 22, she will focus on judicial and legal reform, human trafficking and economic and social rights.

On her last leg of the three-nation tour, from August 23 to 25 in East Timor, the High Commissioner will address the Parliament and attend the first public hearing of the country's Reception Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

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