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...chosen to make a tour of a social housing project in Smithfield, Dublin, her last official public act before departing that afternoon for Geneva and her new post as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Robinson moved to Geneva with husband, Nicholas, and their three children in September of 1997 after being appointed to the post of High Commissioner of Human Rights by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan...
...have come from Atlanta, Geneva, Jakarta and Vienna. Our backgrounds are as diverse as our interests. We have taken classes in Acadian, Afro-American art history, archaeology and astrophysics. Some of us are on the fast track to success, others on the low road to glory. A few of us aren't in the driver's seat at all, but even we will get there somehow...
...Following the first tests, the U.N. made a point of including India in the top tier of preparatory discussions for Geneva, and now Pakistan will probably be included too,? says Dowell. ?So as much as we hate to admit it, the tests have given both India and Pakistan access to the inner circle of nuclear nations...
...stick policy may yet persuade both countries to sign -- although India insists that it be made more equitable by extending the ban on explosions to cover computer simulations used by the major powers. The next phase of the complex global disarmament process will be a U.N. conference in Geneva on a treaty to cut production of fissionable nuclear material...