UN's rights commission opens meet
AFP, Geneva
The UN's top human rights body opened its annual meeting yesterday with debate on the impact of terror attacks and sweeping security powers on civil liberties set to overshadow the six-week session. Mike Smith, the Australian envoy presiding the UN Human Rights Commission this year, opened the meeting with a reminder of recent bomb attacks in Iraq, Spain and Israel. "The sad truth is that there can scarcely be a country in this hall which has not been touched by terrorism in the last couple of years," he said.
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