Louise Arbour | |
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United Nations Special Representative for International Migration | |
In office March 1, 2017 – December 31, 2018 | |
Secretary General | António Guterres |
Preceded by | Peter Sutherland |
Succeeded by | Position abolished |
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights | |
In office July 30, 2004 – August 31, 2008 | |
Secretary General | Kofi Annan Ban Ki-moon |
Preceded by | Sérgio Vieira de Mello |
Succeeded by | Navi Pillay |
Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | |
In office September 15, 1999 – July 28, 2004 | |
Nominated by | Jean Chrétien |
Preceded by | Peter Cory |
Succeeded by | Rosalie Abella/Louise Charron |
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia | |
In office October 1, 1996 – September 15, 1999 | |
Secretary General | Boutros Boutros Ghali Kofi Annan |
Preceded by | Richard Goldstone |
Succeeded by | Carla Del Ponte |
Personal details | |
Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | February 10, 1947
Children | 3 |
Alma mater | Collège Regina Assumpta (DEC) Université de Montréal (BA, LLL) University of Ottawa |
Louise Arbour, CC, GOQ (born February 10, 1947) is a Canadian lawyer, prosecutor and jurist.
Arbour was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario and a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. From 2009 until 2014, she served as President and CEO of the International Crisis Group.[1] She made history with the indictment of a sitting head of state, Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milošević, as well as the first prosecution of sexual assault as a crime against humanity. From March 2017 to December 2018 she was the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for International Migration.[2] She is currently in private practice in Montreal.[3]