New UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has nominated Canadian Justice Louise Arbour as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Once the nomination is approved by the General Assembly, Justice Arbour is expected to retire from the Supreme Court of Canada in June 2004. The former High Commissioner, Sergio Vieira de Mello from Brazil was killed in Baghdad bombing on August 19, 2003, while serving as Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Iraq.