The Village Voice, April 30th, 2002
A Conversation With the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights
BY KAREEM FAHIM I When Mary Robinson, the UN's high commissioner for human rights, announced in recent weeks that she will leave her post in September, it was widely understood as the result of the Bush administration's anger with her performance over the last year. She was criticized for her handling of the World Racism Conference in Durban last summer-which the United States, along with Israel, walked out of -and, perhaps fatally, for her very public concerns regarding the American war on terrorism after September 11.
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