english.aljazeera.net - 10/29/2009
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Navanethem Pillay, the newly-appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, is a South African who began her career in Durban as an advocate for political prisoners under apartheid.
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Oh, It's Definitely Over Between Israel and Turkey. The OIC Initiated the Goldstone Report.
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
... The OIC was instrumental in getting through this resolution and thanks to the good offices of Ms Pilay, the UN high commissioner, that she formed this fact-finding mission headed by Judge Goldstone. ...
Guess who initiated the Goldstone Commission
Israel Matzav —
... history of the Goldstone report. What I would like to put on record is that the OIC was the initiator of this process. On January 3, during the attacks on Gaza, we convened the executive committee of the OIC on a ministerial level. It was decided that the OIC group in Geneva should ask the Human Rights Council to convene and consider the possibility of sending a fact-finding mission to Gaza. The OIC was instrumental in getting through this resolution and thanks to the good offices of Ms Pilay, the UN high commissioner , that she formed this fact-finding mission headed by Judge ...
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