2016 N. Sivalingam Memorial Lecture: Navi Pillay is the keynote speaker

[Danton]

Accountability and Justice for International Crimes: Challenges and Achievements

2016 N. Sivalingam Memorial Lecture in Tamil Studies at York University

Thursday, 7 April 2016 | 5 to 8 pm | Osgoode Hall Law School | York University, Keele Campus

Navi Pillay is the keynote speaker for the 2016 N. Sivalingam Memorial Lecture in Tamil Studies at York University 

Navi Pillay, a South African of Tamil origin, is a world renowned international jurist. She defended anti-Apartheid activists and helped expose the use of torture and poor conditions of political detainees. In 1973, she won the right for political prisoners on Robben Island, including Nelson Mandela, to have access to lawyers. Navi Pillay was the first non-white female judge of the High Court of South Africa, after being appointed to the bench by President Nelson Mandela in 1995. She has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Navi Pillay served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. She is currently serving as the Chief Commissioner of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty.   

A reception beginning at 5 pm will be followed by the Lecture at 6 pm.

All are welcome.  Please RSVP to yc...@yorku.ca by 3 April 2016.

This event is generously sponsored by the Jack and Mae Nathanson Center on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, Osgoode Hall Law School, the York Centre for Asian Research and Amnesty International with support from the graduate program in Socio-Legal Studies, and the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode Hall School.   

[Subramaniam Thiagarajah]

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