South African Named U.N. Commissioner for Human Rights
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UNITED NATIONS, July 24 — South African judge Navanethem Pillay was named Thursday as the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, culminating a remarkable ascent for a lawyer who was once barred from entering a judge’s chamber during South Africa’s apartheid era because of the color of her skin.
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