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DESCRIPTION:The Faculty of Law and the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pl
 uralism welcome the Hon. Irwin Cotler who will deliver the annual René Cas
 sin Lecture in Human Rights.\nJoin us for an inspiring conference by the H
 on. Irwin Cotler. A cocktail will follow in the Common Room.\nA request fo
 r accreditation has been made to the Barreau du Québec for 1.5 hours of CL
 E.\nRSVP: chrlp.law [at] mcgill.ca\nAbout the lecturer\nIrwin Cotler is a 
 Member of the Canadian Parliament\, Emeritus Professor of Law at �󷢲�Ʊƽ̨ Un
 iversity\, and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada\,
  where he introduced landmark legislation in the areas of human traffickin
 g\, children’s rights and same-sex marriage. He is Vice-Chair of both the 
 Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights and the Subcommittee on Int
 ernational Human Rights in the Canadian Parliament.\nA constitutional and 
 comparative law scholar\, Prof. Cotler has litigated every section of the 
 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms – including landmark cases in the 
 areas of free speech\, freedom of religion\, women's rights\, minority rig
 hts\, and war crimes justice – and is the recipient of ten honorary doctor
 ates and numerous awards for his pioneering work in peace law and human ri
 ghts advocacy\, including the Order of Canada. He previously led the Canad
 ian Delegation to the Stockholm International Forum on the Prevention of G
 enocide.\nAt present\, Prof. Cotler is Co-Chair of the Inter-Parliamentary
  Group for Human Rights in Iran\, International Chair of the Responsibilit
 y to Prevent Coalition and Chair of the All-Party Save Darfur Coalition. H
 e has represented political prisoners all over the world\, including Andre
 i Sakharov and Natan Sharansky in the former Soviet Union\, Nelson Mandela
  in South Africa\, Jacobo Timmerman in Argentina\, and Professor Saad Edin
  Ibrahim in Egypt. More recently\, he represented imprisoned Egyptian blog
 ger Maikel Nabil\, and is also a member of the international legal team of
  two Chinese political prisoners – 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xia
 obo\, and Gao Zhisheng. For his work representing political prisoners\, he
  was characterized as “counsel for the oppressed” by Canada’s national mag
 azine\, Macleans\, and “freedom’s counsel” by the Oslo Freedom Forum.\nCas
 sin Lectureship\nThe René Cassin Lectureship is organized by the �󷢲�Ʊƽ̨ Fa
 culty of Law. In 1988\, the Alliance Isréalite Universelle established thi
 s Lectureship to mark the centenary of the birth of René Cassin\, who rece
 ived the Nobel Peace Prize in 1968. The Alliance Isréalite Universelle is 
 one of the oldest and most distinguished human rights organizations\, havi
 ng been founded in Paris in 1860. René Cassin was its president from 1943 
 to 1969.
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (room 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY: The Genocide Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rig
 hts Sixty-Five Years Later: What have we learned? What must we do?
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 declaration-human-rights-what-have-we-learned-what-must-we-do-219673
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