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August 22, 2014

Outgoing Human Rights Chief Slams U.N. Security Council Inaction 
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In her final speech before the U.N. Security Council, outgoing U.N. High
Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay criticized the council's
response to Syria and other conflicts.

Navi Pillay: "Short-term geopolitical considerations and national
interests, narrowly defined, have repeatedly taken precedence over
intolerable human suffering and grave breaches of and long-term threats
to international peace and security. I firmly believe that greater
responsiveness by this council would have saved hundreds of thousands of
lives."

 

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