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Here's an excerpt from the speech delivered by Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:

In the fall of 1999, I was greatly honoured to receive the Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt "Freedom from Fear" Award, in connection with my work as prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. On that momentous occasion, I found myself envious of one of my co-honourees, who was being granted the "Freedom from Want" prize for that year. I had an intuition that hers would be harder to get. I want to explore with you today why I think this is so. Read the full text.

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