Port-au-Prince, January 19, 2016 --- Moetsi Duchatellier is the new Assistant Representative for UNFPA Haiti. She is Haitian and has worked with the United Nations for almost 15 years. She replaces Henri Claude Voltaire, a doctor and former Minister of Public Health and Population, currently in assignment in Madagascar.

“I feel truly privileged to contribute to the work of UNFPA in Haiti, my country”, Mrs Duchatelier says. She adds: “My entire career has been centered on the human person and its inherent dignity. We all count on this earth and joining UNFPA is for me another way to contribute in bringing the necessary social changes to ensure that even the most vulnerable ones of us, are protected and able to develop their full potential”.

The new Assistant Representative for UNFPA Haiti hopes that her experience as a human rights specialist will contribute to advancing one of the UN objective in this country, namely ensuring that all individuals can exercise their human rights, especially those related to the most intimate aspects of life. 

She intends also to support a better understanding of our society's functioning including at the Governmental level, and provide additional avenues for the successful implementation of UNFPA's interventions in the country.

Moetsi Duchatellier’s previous assignment was in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) as Program Management Coordinator for the Africa’s Department of the Field Operation Division.

Previously, still in OHCHR, she also served as desk officer for several countries, and has worked for many years supporting the Independent Experts of the Human Rights Council, notably the mandate of the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of internally displaced persons.

Prior to the OHCHR, Moetsi Duchatellier has worked as a diplomat in Geneva in charge of the Human Rights portfolio.

She holds a Master degree in Public International Law from the Robert Schumann University in Strasbourg (France) and a Master in International relations from the Graduate Institute of International relations of the University of Geneva (Switzerland).