Moving speeches by Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel and Chilean human
rights activist Carmen Quintana are highlights of the collection. Also
included is the dramatic free speech/group libel/pornography debate
between celebrated US civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Judge
Maxwell Cohen (Canada), lawyer Ram Jethmalani (India), and legal
theorist Kathleen Mahoney (Canada). Other papers include those by
then-Canadian Justice Minister Ramon Hnatyshyn; former US
Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman and parliamentarians Svend Robinson
(Canada) and Greville Janner (United Kingdom); South African human
rights lawyer Arthur Chaskalson and UK Member of Parliament Paul
Boateng; and war crimes specialists Irwin Cotler (Canada), litigator
David Matas (Canada), Australian Chief Justice Michael Kirby, and
Allan Ryan Jr, former head of the US Office of Special Investigations.
An "addenda" updates issues addressed at the conference and includes
the Fourth Raoul Wallenberg Lecture on Human Rights, given by Per
Ahlmark, former Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden.
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The Struggle against Injustice in Our Time
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ISBN
9780773565081
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
McGill-Queen's University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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