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Interview with Gebran Michel Soufan , Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva
Gebran Michel Soufan

His Excellency has had a busy summer. Indeed, when the 12 July War broke out between Hezbollah and Israel, Ambassador Soufan was about to leave on holiday, but had to cancel his plans. Instead, he spent his summer rushing to meetings, writing reports, preparing for the second special session of the Human Rights Council convened on 11 August 2006 to address the Israeli violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in Lebanon. In sum, it was a summer…

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Meanwhile: How Tom Luke said ’never again’ By Shashi Tharoor
holocaust

Whenever I think of Auschwitz – or Birkenau, or Mauthausen, or Theresien stadt, the names that, in this season of Holocaust remembrance, are coming back to haunt us from 60 years ago – I think of a retired Australian United Nations official called Tom Luke. Tom wasn’t born Australian, and he wasn’t born Tom Luke. He was born Tomas Lowenbach in 1926 into a bourgeois Jewish family in, in what was then Czechoslovakia. When the Nazis occupied his country,…

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