| Subject: UN rights panel
to launch Timor inquiry before mid-November UN
rights panel to launch Timor inquiry before mid-November
GENEVA, Oct 22 (AFP) - A five-member team tasked with
investigating human rights abuses in East Timor hopes to begin its inquiries on the ground
during the first couple of weeks of November, a spokesman said on Friday.
Jose Luis Diaz, a spokesman for the UN Human Rights
Commission, Jose Luis Diaz, said the team, led by the Costa Rican jurist and member of
parliament Sonia Picado is due to first come to Geneva at the beginning of November for a
briefing at the UN agency.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson,
announced the composition of the commission last week.
Apart from Picado, its members are the former chief of
justice of India, A.M. Ahmadi, the deputy chief justice of Papua New Guinea, Mari Kapa,
Nigeria's former minister of women's affairs, Judith Sefi Attah, and the former German
justice minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger.
The delegation, which will investigate human rights
violations in East Timor since January this year, is due to present its report to UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan before December 31.
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