Louise Arbour - United Nations

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Global X recently interviewed Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

A former lawyer and judge in her home country of Canada, then chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, she believes "in the law and the legal process."

She told Global X about this woman who had lost her husband and two sons in the war, and who was still able to see beyond revenge: "She knew there was another way to settle grievances."

She is optimistic for the long term, but quite realistic over the immediate future: "We don't do a very good job at conflict resolution." She adds, "We need to address the huge disparities in distribution of wealth, both between and within states."

Global X asked Louise Arbour a surprise question: any advice to Social Edge members? "Don't walk away because you think you can't make a difference. Pick a cause! Be a citizen! Vote! Tell your governments what you want them to do and what you will not tolerate that they do on your behalf!"

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@marfaned why do you think this scumbag is not racist ? if you think she is not racist point me to where has she spoken of amercans and their cronies as mass murderers and war criminals in spite of strong evidence.

but let non westerner like us protect our children from terrorists in our own countries . this racist scumbag she attacks us almost no evidence. that is pure racism,

you must be a racist to admire her

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@TheRhea1964 you mean you pray that she stay strong to help kill more children like ours ?

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@TheRhea1964 are you a racist like scum like her? western scum like her helped kill our children

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this is typical western racist scum

[NBABALLER88]

@PunjabiLionsCrew yeaaaa i go to that school ;)

lol wats ur name

[TheRhea1964]

@Peachez87

I admire her Strong Conviction, Pray for her safety at all times.

Rhea from OZ

[TheRhea1964]

I Admire her courage and strong conviction!  I hope you'll be safe at All Times!

Rhea of OZ

[PunjabiLionsCrew]

thumbs up if your from the school louise arbour is Brampton

[marfaned]

Pechez87: I agree she is a heck of a lady. These folks here using foul language only expose themselves. The issue is not her, but the fact that many innocent human lives were lost. What they also seem to forget that those in power could very easily turn their guns on the Sinhala people. After all, it is about power. This is not to defend LTTE but the fact remains that any Government should show restraint as they have more firepower. This problem could have been solved politically years ago.

[NoEalamInSL]

Louise Arbour, an old whore of human rights embraised a new religion of human rights (never raised her voice against Amererican massacres). She talked in pain on Chennel-4 on the first anniversary day of defeat of the most ruthless terroists organization on earth, the LTTE. All high ranking LTTE militray leaders were killed on the 19th May 2009 ending boasted "Eelam War-IV". LTTE destroyed the economy of Sri Lanka with the help, support, direction and guidance of West Europeans like Louise