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Author: Irwin Cotler

Irwin Cotler, a renowned international human rights lawyer, is a member of the Canadian Parliament, Professor of Law at McGill University, and an Associate of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Laundering Delegitimization

Laundering Delegitimization

August 29, 2008 | Irwin Cotler
Durban’s Troubling Legacy One Year Later: Twisting the Cause of International Human Rights Against the Jewish People

Durban’s Troubling Legacy One Year Later: Twisting the Cause of International Human Rights Against the Jewish People

August 20, 2002 | Irwin Cotler
The World Conference Against Racism in Durban was originally planned as a platform to focus on the world's underrepresented human rights causes. Yet what was supposed to be a conference against racism turned into a conference of racism against Israel and the Jewish people.
Jewish NGOs, Human Rights, and Public Advocacy: A Comparative Inquiry

Jewish NGOs, Human Rights, and Public Advocacy: A Comparative Inquiry

October 30, 1999 | Irwin Cotler
This article is being written at a critical juncture in the struggle for human rights, in general, and religious human rights, in particular. At this, a defining moment in the role of human rights non-governmental organizations (NGOs), generally, and Jewish NGOs, in particular, in that struggle, a discussion including the contrasting principles and perspectives that underpin the differing advocacy roles of Jewish NGOs in the U.S. and Canada appears most opportune.
Revolutionary Times in the Soviet Union- 20 Months Later

Revolutionary Times in the Soviet Union- 20 Months Later

June 2, 1991 | Irwin Cotler