Louise Arbour

Louise Arbour
Louise Arbour at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in 2011
United Nations Special Representative for International Migration
In office
March 1, 2017 – December 31, 2018
Secretary GeneralAntónio Guterres
Preceded byPeter Sutherland
Succeeded byPosition abolished
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
In office
July 30, 2004 – August 31, 2008
Secretary GeneralKofi Annan
Ban Ki-moon
Preceded bySérgio Vieira de Mello
Succeeded byNavi Pillay
Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
In office
September 15, 1999 – July 28, 2004
Nominated byJean Chrétien
Preceded byPeter Cory
Succeeded byRosalie 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 GeneralBoutros Boutros Ghali
Kofi Annan
Preceded byRichard Goldstone
Succeeded byCarla Del Ponte
Personal details
Born (1947-02-10) February 10, 1947 (age 77)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Children3
Alma materCollège 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]

  1. ^ "International Crisis Group - President". International Crisis Group. July 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-09-02.
  2. ^ "Secretary-General Appoints Louise Arbour of Canada Special Representative for International Migration | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". Un.org. Archived from the original on 2017-04-25. Retrieved 2017-04-24.
  3. ^ The Honourable Louise Arbour C.C., G.O.Q., Senior Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais.