Sergio Vieira de Mello U.N. New Recruit Welcome Speech
This 2002 Sergio Vieira de Mello U.N. New
Recruit Welcome Video features Sergio,
then the U.N. High Commissioner for Human
Rights, welcoming new recruits to the
organization. He discusses his 30+ year
career and touches on the various regions
where he has done fieldwork, including
East Pakistan, Cyprus, South America,
Bosnia, Lebanon, Cambodia, Kosovo, and
East Timor. In closing, de Mello says that
the real challenges and the real rewards
of serving are in the field. He would lose
his life to a suicide bomber the following
year in Baghdad, Iraq.
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