Yasmin Sooka

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Yasmin Sooka
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Born Cape Town, South Africa
Alma mater University of the Witwatersrand
OccupationHuman rights Lawyer
ProfessionLawyer

Yasmin Louise Sooka (born 10 October 1957) is a South African human rights lawyer and activist. She is the Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa and the International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP), an independent non-profit organisation based in London working since 2013 to protect and promote justice and accountability in Sri Lanka. [1]

She was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and got a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand. During the Apartheid, she was a member of the World Conference on Religion and Peace (South African Chapter) and served as the President of the WCRP. She was a member of the National Repatriation Committee for South African exiles. In 1995, she was appointed to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission as the Deputy Chair of the Human Rights Violations Committee and was responsible for finalizing the Commission’s final report handed over to President Mbeki in March 2003. She chaired the Commission’s legal sub-committee between 1995 and 2001. Since 2000, she has also been a member of the Advisory Body on the Review of Resolution 1325. She was appointed to the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Mary Robinson severing from 2002 to 2004. In July 2010, Ms. Sooka was appointed to the three-member Panel of Experts advising the UN Secretary General on accountability for war crimes committed during the final stages of the war in Sri Lanka. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] She was appointed as Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan in 2016.

References

  1. ↑ "ITJP About". /itjpsl.com. ITJP. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  2. ↑ "President of Human Rights Council appoints members of monitoring mission on South Sudan". Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights . Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  3. ↑ "Yasmin Louise Sooka" . Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Yasmin Sooka". International Committee of the Red Cross. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Justice to Tamils impossible under 'Sri Lanka', but ITJP seeks 'reforms". Tamilnet. 7 January 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Charles Villa-Vicencio; Fanie Du Toit (2006). Truth & Reconciliation in South Africa: 10 Years on. New Africa Books. pp. 17–. ISBN   978-1-86928-603-3 . Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  7. ↑ K. Ainley; R. Friedman; C. Mahony (16 February 2016). Evaluating Transitional Justice: Accountability and Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone. Springer. pp. 51–. ISBN   978-1-137-46822-2 . Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Sri Lanka's Jagath Jayasuriya wanted for war crimes". BBC. 29 August 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  9. ↑ "Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka". United Nations . Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  10. ↑ "UN probe sought on torture by Sri Lankan security forces". The Indian Express. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  11. ↑ "Yasmin Louise Sooka". School of Public Policy. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
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