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Friday, February 20, 2004

BREAKING NEWS - New UN rights chief is Canadian judge who was UN war crimes prosecutor
Bernard Hibbitts at 12:45 PM ET

CBC News is reporting that Madam Justice Louise Arbour of the Supreme Court of Canada will be the next UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, succeeding Sergio Vieira de Mello who was killed last year in a suicide bomb attack on UN offices in Baghdad. The appointment is expected to be announced by the United Nations later today. Arbour, appointed to the Canadian high court in 1999, was chief war crimes prosecutor for the UN in the 1990s. CBC News provides a brief biography of Justice Arbour here.



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