Committee against Torture
Representative of the Secretary-General
Briefs Committee on New Developments
The Committee against Torture this morning
opened its forty-third session at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, hearing
an address by, and having a dialogue with a representative of the Secretary-General,
Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights and Treaty Branch of the Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The Committee
also adopted its agenda and programme of work for the session.
Mr. Salama, drawing attention to a number