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Article: Siding with the bully: the UN's human rights mandarin defends the offence and offends the defence.(WORLD GOVERNMENT)
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- January 15, 2007
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One can only guess at what the late John Humphrey would feel today about his most lauded accomplishment. The Montreal lawyer, who died in 1995, is credited with drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948. Then widely acclaimed, the declaration sparked the creation of the UN Human Rights Council and office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. But both bodies today stand accused of bias against Israel. What's especially troubling to Canadians, who once took pride in Humphrey's accomplishment, is that the woman at the centre of the storm, High Commissioner Louise Arbour, is Canadian.
That Arbour, 59, is in the ...