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Corruption hurts human rights, senior UN official warns

Corruption kills by siphoning money from humanitarian and development projects, the top United Nations human rights official today said, urging a coordinated human-rights based approach among UN agencies, civil society and inter-governmental groups to fight the scourge.

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