A top United Nations human rights official arrived Liberia to highlight the human right issues in the country, a press release of UN said Wednesday.
The Geneva-based Office of the High Commissioner said that Kyung-wha Kang, the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, would discuss with Liberian authorities, civil society groups and members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Gender-based sexual violence and the widespread impunity for the perpetrators of such violence is likely to be a focus of the talks, the office said.
Liberia is the second stop of Kang's trip to Africa. Earlier this week, he held talks with government officials, diplomats and senior UN staff in neighboring Cote d'Ivoire.
The UN deputy human rights chief emphasized that protecting civil rights would remain central to the reconciliation and reconstruction efforts in the two West African countries.
Cote d'Ivoire, which has been grappling with a political-military crisis for close to six years now, is in the process of implementing a comprehensive peace agreement that was concluded in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, in March 2007.
Meanwhile, the international community is making efforts to help Liberia's post-war recovery. During its 1989-2003 civil war, about 250,000 people, or 8 percent of its population, were killed and 1 million others were turned into refugees.
Source:Xinhua
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