Gabon Ambassador Baudelaire Ndong Ella, who presides over the UN's 47-nation Human Rights Council, said today Mary McGowan Davis will join William Schabas and Doudou Diene on the commission created by the council's July 23 resolution.
Davis, who also was a federal prosecutor and has previous U.N. Experience related to Gaza, will take the place of British-Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin.
Alamuddin, who is engaged to marry George Clooney, said she could not accept the role shortly after she had been appointed to it. A commission report is due in March 2015.
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