UNITED NATIONS: Outgoing UN rights chief Navi Pillay rebuked the UN Security Council yesterday for putting short-term geopolitical concerns and narrowly-defined national interests ahead of intolerable human suffering and grave breaches of global peace and security.
“I firmly believe that greater responsiveness by this council would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives,” Pillay told the 15-member body during her final briefing after six years as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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