Louise Arbour

AFN proposes expanding reconciliation commission panel

JOE FRIESEN From Saturday's Globe and Mail The Assembly of First Nations has suggested expanding the residential schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission to five members in an effort to extricate the panel from the mess left...

UN human rights chief urges end to death penalty in Afghanistan

JURIST] UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay [official profile] on Tuesday urged [press release] Afghan President Hamad Karzai [official website; BBC profile] to put a stop to executions and join nations calling...

Sri Lanka: Perth Tamils draw attention of Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister to IDPs plight

More than two hundred Australian Tamils held a vigil in Perth, Western Australia on Friday between 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in front of the electorate office of Minister for Foreign Affairs Stephen Smith, to create an awareness...

Nov 7, 2008: Doris Conant Lecture on Women and Culture: Louis Arbour at Thorne Auditorium, Arthur...

Sixty years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt was a driving force behind the launch of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, surely one of the greatest secular documents in modern history. At the same time, US Supreme Court Justice...