Louise Arbour
Louise Arbour | |
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Arbour in 2011 | |
| 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 | February 10, 1947 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| 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. 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. She is currently in private practice in Montreal.