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South Africas Pillay is new human rights chief

                   
keralanext.com
01-Sep-2008
        
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South African judge Navanethem Pillay became the United Nations' new human rights chief on Monday. Pillay, who succeeded outspoken Canadian Louise Arbour, is a former judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Here are some facts about Pillay: · Pillay, born in a poor Indian neighbourhood of Durban in 1941, is a lawyer from South Africa's ethnic Tamil minority. · The daughter of a bus driver, she... [read full story]                    

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