Commissioner representing the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

In July p>28, the United Nations General Assembly formally appointed Navanethem Pillay of South Africa as the new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Pillay, 67, is a senior judge in South Africa. He has been a judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague since 23. Before that, he also served as a judge and president of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Pillay was the first female lawyer in natal province, South Africa. After apartheid ended in South Africa, she was appointed as the first black female judge in the High Court of South Africa in 1995. One of her tasks is to promote and protect all human rights. She is the first woman to open a law firm in Natal, South Africa.

Louise Arbour, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: Louise Arbour was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on February 1, 1947. She graduated from the Law Department of the University of Montreal in 197, and has been engaged in the legal profession for a long time. She used to be a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada. From October 1996 to 1999, she served as the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in The Hague. In February 24, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed her as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and took office on July 1. She is the second Canadian woman to hold a senior position in the United Nations after UN Under-Secretary-General Louise Frechette. She visited China in August 25 to attend the 13th Asia-Pacific Human Rights Seminar held in China.

The late UN High Commissioner for Human Rights de Mello: The late UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 15th, 1948. After graduating in 1969, de Mello joined the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), took charge of civil affairs in the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1994, and later became the Assistant High Commissioner of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In 1997, he became the United Nations Emergency Assistance Coordinator and the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs of the Secretariat. On January 27th of the following year, the Department of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat was renamed the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and de Mello served as the director of the Office until January 21.

From November p>1999 to May 22, de Mello served as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General in East Timor and head of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). In September 22, he was appointed as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and in May 23, he was appointed as the United Nations Special Representative for Iraq. On August 19, 23, the United Nations office in Iraq was attacked by a car bomb, and de Mello was killed. After his death, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan praised him as an "outstanding public servant of mankind", and his motherland Brazil held a three-day mourning ceremony for him. De Mello is married and has two children. He visited China twice in 1998 and 2.