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tabatha

(18,795 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2012, 03:35 AM Jan 2012

U.N. Security Council to hold closed talks on Syria situation

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/26/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html?hpt=wo_c1

The lady who is talking is Navanethem Pillay

Navanethem "Navi" Pillay is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. A South African, she was the first non-white woman on the High Court of South Africa,[1] and she has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Her four-year term as High Commissioner for Human Rights began on 1 September 2008.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navanethem_Pillay
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