Yehudit Karp, Israel’s deputy attorney general, lost her bid Wednesday to join the committee monitoring the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
This was the first such bid by an Israeli for a position on a United Nations committee. The 10 members of the committee are elected by the 128 signatory nations to the convention.
Karp fared better than some of the other candidates for the five vacant posts. She received support from 19 countries, among them Egypt.
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