The following is an interview with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay conducted by Rodrigo Carrizo Couto of Spain's El Pais newspaper for swissinfo.ch and is reprinted with permission. Pillay talked to swissinfo about her new role and the relevance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.|Full Story
The assault on Chris Davies, Liberal Democrat party spokesman for the environment for the northwest of Britain and a member of the European Union's parliamentary delegation to the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), has delivered a firm message to the European Parliament.|Full Story
After 18 months of verbal and armed conflict, it is not easy for members of the March 14 and March 8 political camps to sit together in the national unity government, Minister of State and former March 14 presidential candidate Nassib Lahoud told The Daily Star on Wednesday.|Full Story
The Daily Star sat down for an interview this week with the United States' ambassador to Lebanon, Michele Sison, formerly the US ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. Sison, originally from Virginia, is a career diplomat. She voiced, at length, the United States' support for Lebanon, its democratic process and President Michel Sleiman.|Full Story
In writing his influential book "The Second World," Parag Khanna visited more countries in the past five years than most of us will visit in our whole lives. The 31-year-old policy wunderkind, who is also director of the Global Governance Initiative and a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation. |Full Story
During her fact-finding stay in Beirut, Manuela Paraipan, a Middle East editor for the World Security Network Foundation, had the opportunity to meet many ordinary Lebanese people as well as people in high-ranking political offices. One of them was Information Minister Tarek Mitri, who was the acting foreign minister after the summer 2006 war with Israel.|Full Story
The Daily Star interviewed Marta Ruedas, UN deputy special coordinator for Lebanon, UN resident coordinator and UNDP resident representative on Wednesday, two days before the celebration of United Nations Day. Ruedas has worked with the UN, principally with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), for over 20 years.|Full Story
