Human Rights Diplomacy: An Oxymoron?
Wednesday, October 28, 200912:00pm-1:30 PM
Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall
Harvard Law School
Please join the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the International Legal Studies program, and the University Committee for Human Rights Studies for this presentation with Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Judge Pillay was an attorney and conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa from 1967 to 1995, and was appointed acting judge of the High Court in 1995. In 1967, she became the first woman to start a law practice in South Africa's Natal Province, providing legal defence for opponents of apartheid. She exposed the practice and effects of torture and solitary confinement on detainees held in police custody, and successfully established the rights of prisoners on Robben Island.
Since 2003, she has served as judge on the International Criminal Court. In 1999, she was elected Judge President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which she joined in 1995, having been elected as judge by the General Assembly.
This event is sponsored by the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, the International Legal Studies, and the University Committee for Human Rights Studies. For more information, or to RSVP, email hrp@law.harvard.edu or call 617-495-9362.