"Transcend your differences and find consensus" (Navi Pillay, High Commissioner for Human Rights )

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United Nations, Geneva, 15 April 2009 - Addressing the final Preparatory Committee meeting of the upcoming anti-racism Durban Review Conference, the High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged delegates to transcend their differences and find consensus.  She also told them that the future and hope of countless victims of racism rest in their hands.

Durban Review Conference: http://www.un.org/durbanreview2009

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