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

Karla Cueva, 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. Cueva had been serving as the Country Representative for Plan International Honduras since 2025. She held multiple earlier positions within the Government of Honduras, including as Secretary of Human Rights (2018-2021), Under Secretary of Human Rights and Justice (2014-2017), and Under Secretary of Social Development (2010-2013), with an interlude as the Country Director at Freedom House Honduras (2017-2018).

Ms. Cueva served as the Auxiliary Public Prosecutor, at the Public Prosecutor Office of Honduras in 2000. From 2003 to 2010, she worked as an independent consultant specialising in child labour, traffic and sexual commercial exploitation.

Ms. Cueva holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Children's Rights from the University of Fribourg/Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch, Switzerland (2009). She has a law degree (2002) and Bachelor of Law and Social Sciences degree, specialised in international law (1993), both from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras.

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