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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: The Challenges of International Protection. By Bertrand G. Ramcharan. The Hague, London, New York: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2002. Pp. xx, 250. Index. $130, €96.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Felice D. Gaer
Felice D. Gaer*
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Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 98 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 391 - 395
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References

1 After High Commissioner Sergio Vieira de Mello was sent to Iraq on temporary assignment in mid-2003, Ramcharan was appointed acting high commissioner, in which post he continues as of February 2004. De Mello died tragically in a terrorist bombing in August 2003. In late February, 2004, Judge Louise Arbour of Canada was designated and then elected by the General Assembly as de Mello’s successor. See UN Press Release GA/10231 (Feb. 25, 2004); Hoge, Warren, UN. Names Canadian Judge and Ex-prosecutor to Rights Post, N.Y. Times, Feb. 21,2004, at A3 Google Scholar.

2 See Korey, William, NGOs and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Acurious Grapevine 375–76 (1998)Google Scholar (reporting on the NGO conference’s conclusions and expectations).

3 GA Res. 48/141 (Dec. 23,1993).

4 See, e.g., José, Ayala Lasso, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Statement (summary), UN GAOR 3dComm, 49th Sess., 37th mtg. at 2-5, UN Doc. A/C.3/49/SR. 37 (1994)Google Scholar; Cook, Helena, The Role of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back? 89 ASIL Proc. 235 (1995)Google Scholar.

5 Nebehay, Stephanie, New UN Rights Boss Vows to “Stand Up to Bullies, “ Reuters, Sept 18,1997 Google Scholar; see Robinson, Mary, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Statement (Sept. 19, 1997)Google Scholar. The more recent statements (beginning in 1997) of the high commissioners are available online at the OHCHR Web site’s “Newsroom,” <http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/NewsRoom>.

6 Sergio, Vieira de Mello, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Statement (Sept. 20, 2002)Google Scholar.

7 KOREY, supra note 2, at 372.

8 Wintour, Patrick, Short Calk for Quick and ‘Elegant’ End of Conflict, Guardian, Oct, 7, 2001, at 2 Google Scholar; Schell, Jonathan, Letter from Ground Zero: Seven Million at Bisk, Nation, Nov. 5,2001 Google Scholar, at <http://www.thenation.com>.

9 Robinson, Maty, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Farewell Speech (September 10, 2002)Google Scholar.

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