In her final speech before the U.N. Security Council, outgoing U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay criticized the council’s response to Syria and other conflicts.

Navi Pillay: “Short-term geopolitical considerations and national interests, narrowly defined, have repeatedly taken precedence over intolerable human suffering and grave breaches of and long-term threats to international peace and security. I firmly believe that greater responsiveness by this council would have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.”