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Kyung-wha Kang, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights

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The United Nations Humans Rights Council has voted to condemn Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad over the ongoing violence. But is it simply another empty gesture? Annette Young talks to the UN Deputy Human Rights Commission, Kyung-wha Kang.

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