Louise Arbour
March 2011
November 2010
August 2010
February 2008
- Greenslade60,000 sign up to save Pervez's life
The UN high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, has written to the Afghan government about the student journalist Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, who is facing execution. More than 60,000 people have signed a petition launched by The Independent to save Kambaksh's life. You can sign here (Via The Independent)
October 2006
UN official: Khartoum knew of Darfur militia raid
The Sudanese government almost certainly had prior knowledge of militia attacks in Buram, south Darfur, in which several hundred people may have died, Louise Arbour, the UN human rights commissioner, said yesterday. The attacks, described in a 15-page report as "massive in scale and carried out over a few days", started in late August.
June 1999
No rush to judgment
After the resounding decision to indict Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes which the chief prosecutor for the International Tribunal at the Hague issued last week, yesterday's judgment by the International Court of Justice on the war in Yugoslavia was a damp squib. That is partly due to the difference between accusations and verdicts. Louise Arbour for the War Crimes Tribunal was making a case for putting the Yugoslav president on trial. But Ms Arbour is not the judge, and the world will have to wait for a decision on Milosevic's guilt until he is in the dock.
Making Milosevic pay
It looked like the moment of truth for Slobodan Milosevic - and one that could have an electrifying effect on the course of the Balkan war. When Louise Arbour, the Canadian prosecutor of The Hague tribunal, announced yesterday that the Yugoslav president was being indicted for crimes against humanity, it marked both a dramatic first for international law - and an explosive development in the Kosovo crisis.
27 May: Milosevic formally indicted for war crimes
Louise Arbour, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia, has formally charged Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic with war crimes in Kosovo. He is the first sitting head of state to be charged with war crimes.
January 1999
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