Human rights post
Tuesday 21 December 1993 00:02 GMT
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The United Nations General Assembly formally created the post of high commissioner for human rights, a post under discussion for 45 years, Reuter reports from New York. The job will be at undersecretary-general level, based in Geneva.
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