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What United Nations literature calls national human rights institutions (NHRIs) have emerged in recent years in the Arab world. A few of them - for example in Morocco and Palestine - have attained some autonomy in confronting governments. Most Arab NHRIs, however, have been unable to garner legitimacy in their society because.

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