New Permanent Representative of Honduras Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Marcela Arias Moncada, the new Permanent Representative of Honduras to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her appointment to Geneva, Ms. Arias Moncada had been working as a Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Honduras to the United Nations Office at Geneva since November 2022.

Ms. Arias Moncada worked as a human rights officer at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights from August 2020 to September 2021.  Before that, she worked as a research and advocacy officer at the Women’s Rights Center from January 2018 to July 2020.

Ms. Arias Moncada has a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford (September 2021-September 2022).  She graduated as a lawyer from the National Autonomous University of Honduras (September 2013-August 2019).  She was born on 6 May 1996.

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