Jürg Lauber elected president of UN Human Rights Council

Jürg Lauber will be the first Swiss to chair the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva in 2025. Lauber was elected president by the member states on Monday and will hold his office for one year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Switzerland will return to the Council in January for a three-year term, having been absent for six years. In the almost 20 years since its inception, the main human rights body of the United Nations, which has always consisted of 47 of the 193 UN members, has never been chaired by a Swiss representative. + Switzerland elected to UN Human Rights Council after five-year absence No other state from Switzerland's regional bloc contested Jürg Lauber's candidacy. "It is a great honour and an immense responsibility. But above all it is an opportunity for Switzerland," the 61-year-old from Zug and current Swiss ambassador to the UN in Geneva told the Swiss News Agency Keystone-SDA. Translated from German by DeepL/ts How we work ...