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- August 2001 (Creation)
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Notes and articles in critique of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Racial Intolerance, Durban in August/September 2001, expressing her scepticism of the event. Also included a request for information by the Department of Foreign Affairs, which identified as one in a list of individuals who could be entered into a UN Roster of Eminent and Qualified Experts.
Background Information on the conference including article by N Barney Pityana, Chairperson of the SA Human Rights Commission, 1 August 2000 and message from Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretary General of the Conference, 15 December 2000; Letter to editor of The Star from Helen Suzman, 29 May 2001 re the conference; article published in Jewish Report, June 15 to 22, 2001 on conference and article by Helen Suzman in African Mirror Inc magazine.