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UNICEF and Real Madrid form partnership to work for children's rights

25 February 2004
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and celebrated Spanish football club Real Madrid today formed a formal partnership to draw attention to children’s issues and improve the observance of children’s rights.
Louise Arbour

Annan to name Canadian Justice Louise Arbour as top UN human rights official

20 February 2004
Louise Arbour, a Canadian Supreme Court Justice and ex-prosecutor of United Nations war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, will be named the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - succeeding Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Baghdad last August.