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June 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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28 October 2023. Dear High Commissioner, This will be my last official communication to you as Director of the New York office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. I write at a moment of great anguish for the world, including for many of our colleagues. Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it. As someone who investigated human rights in Palestine since the 1980's, lived in Gaza as a UN human rights advisor since the 1990's, and carried out several human rights missions to the country before and since, this is deeply personal to me. I also worked in these halls through the genocides against the Turks, Bosnian Muslims, the Yazidi, and the Rohingya. In each case, when the dust settled in the horrors that had been perpetrated against defenseless civilian populations, it became painfully clear that we failed in our duty to meet the imperatives of prevention of mass atrocities, of protection of the
November 1, 2023 at 2:42 PM
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Spotted this barred beauty catching an early morning rabbit in my garden 🪶#birdfriends
October 28, 2023 at 2:41 PM
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Hey #FungiFriends check out this handsome guy I saw on my walk
October 26, 2023 at 3:34 AM