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Louise Arbour

Top UN human rights official to wrap up Central Asian tour in Turkmenistan

2 May 2007
On the final leg of her four-country Central Asian tour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour will arrive in Turkmenistan tomorrow to meetings with Government authorities and representatives from various groups.
Louise Arbour

Top UN human rights official arrives in Kazakhstan for talks with officials

30 April 2007
Continuing an official tour of Central Asia, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour arrived today in Kazakhstan for talks with top officials.
Louise Arbour

Louise Arbour starts work as new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

1 July 2004
Louise Arbour, a Canadian Supreme Court Justice and ex-prosecutor of United Nations war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, today takes up her duties as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in succession to Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Baghdad last August.
Louise Arbour

General Assembly confirms Arbour as High Commissioner for Human Rights

25 February 2004
The United Nations General Assembly today approved by acclamation the appointment of Louise Arbour, a Canadian Supreme Court justice and ex-prosecutor for UN war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, as the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.