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Louise Arbour

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Louise Arbour, (born February 10, 1947) is a Canadian lawyer, prosecutor and jurist. [1]

81 relations: American College of Trial Lawyers, American Society of International Law, António Guterres, Arusha, As It Happens, Bachelor of Laws, Bar of Quebec, Bertrand Ramcharan, Canada's Walk of Fame, Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Canadians, Carol Off, Collège Regina Assumpta, Concordia University, Court of Appeal for Ontario, Crimes against humanity, Dragoljub Ojdanić, Fondation Chirac, Germany, Honorary degree, Ian Scott (Ontario politician), International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, International Crisis Group, Jean Chrétien, Kingston, Ontario, Kofi Annan, Lakehead University, Law clerk, Law Commission of Canada, Law Society of Ontario, Legion of Honour, Louis-Philippe Pigeon, Louise Charron, Milan Milutinović, Montreal, Mount Saint Vincent University, National Order of Quebec, Navi Pillay, Nikola Šainović, North–South Prize, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Order of Canada, Order of the Crown (Belgium), Osgoode Hall Law School, Ottawa—Vanier, Peter Cory, Peter Sutherland, Phi Delta Phi, Puisne judge, ..., Quebec, Racism, Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Arbour, Richard Goldstone, Rosalie Abella, Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Serbia, Sexual assault, Simon Fraser University, Slobodan Milošević, St. Francis Xavier University, Supreme Court of Canada, Supreme Court of Ontario, Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights, United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights, United Nations Security Council Resolution 1047, Université de Montréal, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, University of Guelph, University of London, University of Ottawa, University of San Diego, University of Warwick, University of Waterloo, University of Western Ontario, Vlajko Stojiljković, Wendy Crewson, World Economic Forum, York University, Zionism. Expand index (31 more) »

American College of Trial Lawyers

The American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) is a professional association of trial lawyers from the United States and Canada.

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American Society of International Law

The American Society of International Law (ASIL), founded in 1906, was chartered by the United States Congress in 1950 to foster the study of international law, and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the basis of law and justice.

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António Guterres

António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres GCC GCL (born 30 April 1949) is a Portuguese politician and diplomat who is serving as the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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Arusha

Arusha is a city in north eastern Tanzania and the capital of the Arusha Region, with a population of 416,442 plus 323,198 in the surrounding Arusha District (2012 census).

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As It Happens

As It Happens is a Canadian interview show that airs on CBC Radio One in Canada and various public radio stations in the United States through Public Radio International.

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Bachelor of Laws

The Bachelor of Laws (Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B. or B.L.) is an undergraduate degree in law (or a first professional degree in law, depending on jurisdiction) originating in England and offered in Japan and most common law jurisdictionsexcept the United States and Canadaas the degree which allows a person to become a lawyer.

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Bar of Quebec

The Bar of Quebec (Barreau du Québec) is the provincial law society in Quebec, Canada.

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Bertrand Ramcharan

Bertrand G. Ramcharan of Guyana, a former United Nations official who once held functional diplomatic status, was from 2011 to 2015 President of UPR Info, an NGO working to promote and strengthen the Universal Periodic Review.

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Canada's Walk of Fame

Canada's Walk of Fame (Allée des célébrités canadiennes) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a walk of fame that acknowledges the achievements and accomplishments of Canadians who have excelled in their respective fields.

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Canadian Civil Liberties Association

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA; Association Canadienne des Libertés Civiles) is a nonprofit organization in Canada devoted to the defence of civil liberties and constitutional rights.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Carol Off

Carol Off is a Canadian journalist, commentator, and author associated with CBC Television and CBC Radio.

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Collège Regina Assumpta

Collège Regina Assumpta (Regina Assumpta is Latin for "Assumption of the Queen") is a private, selective French-language school located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that was established in 1955 by the Sisters of Notre-Dame Congregation.

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Concordia University

Concordia University (commonly referred to as Concordia) is a public comprehensive university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on unceded Indigenous lands.

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Court of Appeal for Ontario

The Court of Appeal for Ontario (frequently referred to as the Ontario Court of Appeal or ONCA) is an appellate court in Ontario that is based at historic Osgoode Hall in downtown Toronto.

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Crimes against humanity

Crimes against humanity are certain acts that are deliberately committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack or individual attack directed against any civilian or an identifiable part of a civilian population.

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Dragoljub Ojdanić

Dragoljub Ojdanić (Serbian Cyrillic: Драгољуб Ојданић) (born 1 June 1941, Ravni near Užice, Kingdom of Yugoslavia) was former Chief of the General Staff and Defence minister of Yugoslavia.

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Fondation Chirac

The Fondation Chirac was launched by former French President Jacques Chirac, after having served two terms in office between 1995 and 2007.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.

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Ian Scott (Ontario politician)

Ian Gilmour Scott, (July 13, 1934 – October 10, 2006) was a Canadian politician and lawyer in Ontario, Canada.

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International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR; Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda; Urukiko Mpanabyaha Mpuzamahanga Rwashyiriweho u Rwanda) was an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to judge people responsible for the Rwandan genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan citizens in nearby states, between 1 January and 31 December 1994.

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International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), was a body of the United Nations established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the Yugoslav Wars, and to try their perpetrators.

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International Crisis Group

The International Crisis Group (ICG; also simply known as the Crisis Group) is a transnational non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1995 that carries out field research on violent conflict and advances policies to prevent, mitigate or resolve conflict.

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Jean Chrétien

Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born January 11, 1934), known commonly as Jean Chrétien, is a Canadian politician who served as the 20th Prime Minister of Canada from November 4, 1993, to December 12, 2003.

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Kingston, Ontario

Kingston is a city in eastern Ontario, Canada.

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Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006.

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Lakehead University

Lakehead University is a public research university with campuses in Thunder Bay and Orillia, Ontario, Canada.

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Law clerk

A law clerk or a judicial clerk is an individual—generally an attorney—who provides direct assistance and counsel to a judge in making legal determinations and in writing opinions by researching issues before the court.

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Law Commission of Canada

The Law Commission of Canada was an independent law commission that gave advice to the Canadian government on matters of law.

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Law Society of Ontario

The Law Society of Ontario (LSO) (French: Barreau de l'Ontario) is the law society responsible for the self-regulation of lawyers and paralegals in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Louis-Philippe Pigeon

Louis-Philippe Pigeon, (February 8, 1905 – February 23, 1986) was a Canadian lawyer, academic, and puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Louise Charron

Louise Charron, (born March 2, 1951) is a Canadian jurist.

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Milan Milutinović

Milan Milutinović (Милан Милутиновић; born 19 December 1942) is a Serbian politician who served as the second President of Serbia from 1997 to 2002.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Mount Saint Vincent University

Mount Saint Vincent University, often referred to as The Mount, is a primarily undergraduate public university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and was established in 1873.

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National Order of Quebec

The National Order of Quebec, termed officially in French as l'Ordre national du Québec, and in English abbreviation as the Order of Quebec, is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Navi Pillay

Navanethem "Navi" Pillay (born 23 September 1941) is a South African jurist who served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014.

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Nikola Šainović

Nikola Šainović (Никола Шаиновић, born 7 December 1948) is a Serbian politician and convicted war criminal.

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North–South Prize

The North–South Prize is awarded annually by the North-South Centre of the Council of Europe to two public figures who are recognised for their deep commitment, outstanding achievements and hope they have generated in the field of protection of human rights, the defence of pluralist democracy and North-South partnership and solidarity.

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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (commonly known as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)) is a United Nations agency that works to promote and protect the human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.

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Order of Canada

The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian national order and the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.

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Order of the Crown (Belgium)

The Order of the Crown (Ordre de la Couronne, Kroonorde) is a national order of the Kingdom of Belgium.

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Osgoode Hall Law School

Osgoode Hall Law School, commonly shortened to Osgoode, is the law school of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Ottawa—Vanier

Ottawa—Vanier (formerly known as Ottawa East) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1935.

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Peter Cory

Peter deCarteret Cory, (born October 25, 1925) is a former puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, from 1989 to 1999.

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Peter Sutherland

Peter Denis Sutherland (25 April 1946 – 7 January 2018) was an Irish businessman, barrister and politician who served as UN Special Representative for International Migration from 2006 to 2017, Chairman of Goldman Sachs from 1995 to 2015, Director-General of the World Trade Organization from 1993 to 1995, European Commissioner for Competition from 1985 to 1989 and Attorney General of Ireland from 1981 to 1982 and 1982 to 1994.

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Phi Delta Phi

Phi Delta Phi (ΦΔΦ) is an international legal honor society and the oldest legal organization in continuous existence in the United States.

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Puisne judge

A puisne judge or puisne justice (French: puisné or puîné, "since-born" i.e. "junior") is a dated term for an ordinary judge of a particular court.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Arbour

This is a list of all the reasons written by Louise Arbour during her tenure as puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Richard Goldstone

Richard Joseph Goldstone (born 26 October 1938) is a South African former judge.

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Rosalie Abella

Rosalie Silberman Abella, (born July 1, 1946) is a Canadian jurist.

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Sérgio Vieira de Mello

Sérgio Vieira de Mello (15 March 1948 – 19 August 2003) was a Brazilian United Nations diplomat who worked for the UN for more than 34 years, earning respect and praise around the world for his efforts in the humanitarian and political programs of the UN.

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Serbia

Serbia (Србија / Srbija),Pannonian Rusyn: Сербия; Szerbia; Albanian and Romanian: Serbia; Slovak and Czech: Srbsko,; Сърбия.

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Sexual assault

Sexual assault is an act in which a person coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will.

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Simon Fraser University

Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada with campuses in Burnaby (Main Campus), Surrey, and Vancouver.

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Slobodan Milošević

Slobodan Milošević (Слободан Милошевић; 20 August 1941 – 11 March 2006) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician and the President of Serbia (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia, a constituent republic within the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) from 1989 to 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000.

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St. Francis Xavier University

St.

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Supreme Court of Canada

The Supreme Court of Canada (Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada, the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system.

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Supreme Court of Ontario

The Supreme Court of Ontario was a superior court of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights

The Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights is awarded biennially by the University of Connecticut to an individual or group who has made a significant effort to advance the cause of international justice and global human rights.

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United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights

The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by United Nations General Assembly in 1966.

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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1047

United Nations Security Council resolution 1047, adopted unanimously on 29 February 1996, after recalling resolutions 808 (1993), 827 (1993), 936 (1994) and 955 (1994), the Council appointed Louise Arbour as Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

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Université de Montréal

The Université de Montréal (UdeM) is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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University of Alberta

The University of Alberta (also known as U of A and UAlberta) is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna, British Columbia.

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University of Guelph

The University of Guelph (U of G) is a comprehensive public research university in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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University of Ottawa

The University of Ottawa (uOttawa or U of O) (Université d'Ottawa) is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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University of San Diego

The University of San Diego (USD) is a private Roman Catholic research university in San Diego, California, United States.

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University of Warwick

The University of Warwick is a plate glass research university in Coventry, England.

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University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo (commonly referred to as Waterloo, UW, or UWaterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario.

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University of Western Ontario

The University of Western Ontario (UWO), corporately branded as Western University as of 2012 and commonly shortened to Western, is a public research university in London, Ontario, Canada.

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Vlajko Stojiljković

Vlajko Stojiljković (Влајко Стојиљковић; 13 March 1937 – 13 April 2002) was a Serbian politician.

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Wendy Crewson

Wendy Jane Crewson (born May 9, 1956) is a Canadian actress and producer.

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World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is a Swiss nonprofit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, Switzerland.

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York University

York University (Université York) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Zionism

Zionism (צִיּוֹנוּת Tsiyyonut after Zion) is the national movement of the Jewish people that supports the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the historic Land of Israel (roughly corresponding to Canaan, the Holy Land, or the region of Palestine).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Arbour

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