The United Nations’ human rights chief called for Israel to be treated more fairly by the international forum. “I hope Israel would receive a more balanced treatment in the framework of the changes slated to take place in United Nations institutions, especially in those dealing with human rights,” Louise Arbour, high commissioner of the U.N. Human Rights Commission, said Thursday during a Geneva meeting with Israel’s minister for Diaspora affairs, Natan Sharansky.
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