Sanctioning Human Wrongs

What is the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights doing in Iran?

By Anne Bayefsky

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights,Louise Arbour, traveled to Iran this week totake a front row seat and listen attentively to Holocaust-denier Iranian President Mahmoud.

Ahmadinejad. The occasion was billed as a human-rights meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement(NAM), currently chaired by Cuba.

While Arbour was hobnobbing with anti-Semites, butchers, and anti-demo...
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