Goro Onojima

Brief biography

1983‐1986： Ministry of Foreign Affairs; language training (Croatian) at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb; completion of the graduate programme in International Law and Relations at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb

1986‐1991： Embassy of Japan in the former Yugoslavia; Ministry of Foreign Affairs (East Europe Division; Press Division)

1992‐1997: United Nations Centre for Human Rights/OHCHR – Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (assisting in the management of the Technical Cooperation Programme and the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, while also formulating, implementing and evaluating technical cooperation projects mainly for Eastern European countries)

1998‐2007： OHCHR New York Office (representing OHCHR at UN Headquarters particularly in the mainstreaming of human rights within the UN system launched by the then Secretary-General, Kofi Annan as part of his UN reform initiative and led by the then High Commissioner, Mary Robinson)

2007‐2009： OHCHR Research and Right to Development Branch, Geneva (as Chief of the Right to Development Section leading the work of OHCHR for the promotion of the right to development and the research on thematic issues, including human rights and human trafficking and human rights indicators)

2010‐2022: OHCHR Human Rights Council Branch, Geneva (as Secretary of the UN Human Rights Council managing and directing the secretariat of the Human Rights Council while providing support to the President and the Bureau of the Council)