Fiji: Imrana Jalal joins international jurists commission
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The Pacific Regional Rights Resource Team - RRRT In May 2006, WLUML networker and RRRT's Human Rights Adviser, Imrana Jalal, was appointed to the renowned International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).
The ICJ, an international human rights non-governmental organisation, is dedicated to the promotion and implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights.
The Commission itself is a group of 60 eminent jurists (judges and lawyers) from around the world, including former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, leading British lawyer Lord William Goodhart, Justice John Dowd of the New South Wales High Court, Botswana High Court Judge Unity Dow and South African Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson (currently ICJ President).
Jalal aims to bring a much needed Pacific Island perspective to the international Commission, since it’s been nearly two decades since the region’s been represented on the commission. (Fiji’s Sir Moti Tikaram served on the Commission from 1984 to 1989.)
Jalal aims to bring a much needed Pacific Island perspective to the international Commission, since it’s been nearly two decades since the region’s been represented on the commission. (Fiji’s Sir Moti Tikaram served on the Commission from 1984 to 1989.)
