Yasmin Louise Sooka is a leading human rights lawyer, the Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa and a trustee of the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre. She was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and got a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand. She is an expert on transitional justice, gender and international war crimes.
Yasmin Sooka | |
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| Born | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Alma mater | University of the Witwatersrand |
| Occupation | Human rights Lawyer |
| Profession | Lawyer |
She was member of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and of the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a member of the United Nations Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka to investigate war crimes in the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War, and currently serves as the Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Sooka is the Executive Director of 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.[11]
References
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- ^ "Yasmin Louise Sooka". Retrieved 18 November 2017.
- ^ "Yasmin Sooka". International Committee of the Red Cross. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
- ^ "Justice to Tamils impossible under 'Sri Lanka', but ITJP seeks 'reforms". Tamilnet. 7 January 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Sri Lanka's Jagath Jayasuriya wanted for war crimes". BBC. 29 August 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
- ^ "Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka". United Nations. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
- ^ "UN probe sought on torture by Sri Lankan security forces". The Indian Express. 14 November 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
- ^ "Yasmin Louise Sooka". School of Public Policy. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
- ^ "ITJP About". /itjpsl.com. ITJP. Retrieved 27 September 2023.