2020 ANNUAL REPORT MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDER & CHAIR

After retiring as an Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University and long-time Member of Parliament, I founded the based Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human (RWCHR), with Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel, which, in the past five years, has become one of the global leaders in the pursuit of justice.

In particular, this includes the struggle for the preventing and combating of mass atrocity and genocide; the struggle against the resurgent global authoritarianism and need for democratic renewal; advocacy for the global empowerment of women;, indigenous people and racialized minorities; and for its work on behalf of political prisoners worldwide, which has already achieved notable achievements and international resonance in the release of political prisoners, including Biram Dah Abeid, the imprisoned leader of the anti-slavery movement in Mauritania, now recently elected to the Mauritanian Parliament after his release, though still subjected to threat, harassment and intimidation.

The Centre also established the first-ever Raoul Wallenberg All-Party Parliamentary Caucus for Human Rights which has pursued a series of all party initiatives, including the unanimous adoption of Global Justice for Sergei Magnitsky legislation; the inaugural Political Prisoner Day — an event held to highlight the plight and pain of political prisoners around the world — on December 10, UN Humans Rights Day; the Media Project established in conjunction with the High Level Panel of Independent Legal Experts for Media Freedom, of which I am the Canadian member; the inaugural Elie Wiesel Lectureship in Human Rights, with distinguished guest lecturer, the Honourable Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of ; and a recent initiative for the promotion and protection of democratic freedom established in partnership with the Parliamentarians for Global Action.

3 MISSION STATEMENT FIVE PILLARS: PURSUING JUSTICE

The RWCHR is a unique international consortium of parliamentarians, scholars, jurists, human rights defenders, NGOs, and students united in the pursuit of justice, inspired by and anchored in Raoul Wallenberg’s humanitarian legacy – how one person with the compassion to care and HEROES OF HUMANITY the courage to act can confront evil, prevail, and transform history. From mid-May to early July 1944, the Nazis deported 440,000 from Hungary to the Auschwitz Birkenau death camp – one of the most efficient, cruelest, and most horrific mass deportations in . HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE Raoul Wallenberg arrived as a Swedish diplomat in the Swedish legation in Budapest in July 1944 and in six months saved 100,000 .

The Wallenberg Centre is organized around five pillars of pursuing justice, each of which PROTECTING DEMOCRACY reflects and represents Wallenberg’s humanitarian legacy. The Centre’s Founder and International Chair is Professor and the Co-Chairs from countries of Wallenberg’s Honorary Citizenship include Jared Genser (US); Michael Danby (Australia); and Natan DEFENDING POLITICAL PRISONERS Sharansky ().

To read our entire Mission Statement, visit our website. ADVANCING WOMEN’S RIGHTS

5 HEROES OF HUMANITY HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE

Heroes of humanity deserve to be remembered and that remembrance acted upon, for they “Indifference and inaction always mean demonstrate how one person with the compassion to care and the courage to act can confront coming down on the side of the victimizer, never on evil and transform history. As such, they serve as metaphors and messages of the struggle for the side of the victim” (Elie Wiesel). In the face of human rights and human dignity representing hope and inspiration in reminding us that we evil, indifference is acquiescence, if not complicity all have the power to better the human condition. It is therefore a moral imperative, if not a in evil itself. What makes the Holocaust, and more historic responsibility, to learn about, reflect, and act upon the legacies of humanity’s heroes. recently the genocides in Rwanda and in Darfur - Among the heroes of humanity that we ought to commemorate and celebrate are Canada’s first and more recently the genocdies of the Rohingya two Honorary Citizens: Raoul Wallenberg and Nelson ‘Madiba’ Mandela. and the Uyghurs - so unspeakable is not only the horror of the genocides – which are horrific Pictured top to bottom, left to right: Raoul Wallenberg, Nelson Mandela, and enough – but that these genocides were preventable. Nobody can say that we did not, or do not, know. We must reflect upon the lessons of the past – remember the victims and honour the survivors – and its enduring imperatives for the present. The international community cannot be bystanders to such horror – we must act.

PROTECTING DEMOCRACY

We are witnessing today a global resurgence of authoritarianism and illiberal populism. These trends pose a threat to , and the values and institutions – , independent judiciary, , press, and association, transparency and accountability – that underpin it, the hallmarks of human rights. In a word, liberal democracy is under assault, and all those who cherish it must come to its defence.

The protection and promotion of democracy is exemplified in combating resurgent global authoritarianism and the cultures of criminality, corruption, and impunity that underpin them.

7 DEFENDING POLITICAL PRISONERS ADVANCING WOMEN’S RIGHTS

The importance of remembering and freeing political prisoners is exemplified in the case of The promotion of and the attainment of women’s rights is the most effective Nelson Mandela, who endured 27 years in a South African prison, and emerged to not only approach to reducing poverty and building a more inclusive, peaceful and prosperous world. preside over the dismantling of apartheid, but to become President of the first democratic, Without the full participation, protection and promotion of women and girls, peace, security, egalitarian, non-racial . It is a testimony – as is Raoul Wallenberg – to how one economic stability, justice and the betterment of the human condition will remain elusive goals person with the compassion to care and the courage to act can transform history. Accordingly, we continue to strive for but fail to realize. To help women and girls actualize their rights, we must we must come to the defense of major political prisoners, wherever they are, standing in change how countries and communities work towards enabling them to exercise their agency and self- solidarity with them and not relenting until they are freed. Since its founding, the Centre seeks determination. to mobilize international advocacy in concert with other international human rights bodies, governments, parliamentarians and NGOs that can have a dramatic impact on the case and The RWCHR promotes education, awareness, advocacy and action with respect to the cause of political prisoners, and alone make the need for such a Centre worthwhile. At present, the Centre is engaged in advocacy on behalf of twelve prisoners in their respective countries. EQUALITY EQUALIZING THE VOICE IN THE POLITICAL AND PARLIAMENTARY ARENA Pictured top to bottom, left to right: Saeed Malekpour, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and Leopoldo Lopez DIVERSITY ENHANCING EQUITABLE GENDER DIVERSITY IN THE CORPORATE SECTOR DIGNITY AMPLIFYING THE STORIES OF COURAGEOUS WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

SECURITY COMBATING GENDER-BASED HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN ARMED CONFLICT

JUSTICE FOCUSING PARTICULARLY ON THE PAIN AND PLIGHT OF INDIGENOUS CANADIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND THEIR COMPELLING JUSTICE CLAIMS

PEACE BOLSTERING THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN PEACE NEGOTIATIONS, PEACE PROTECTION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION

9 PROTECTING DEMOCRACY MEDIA FREEDOM

The need for accurate, reliable, fact-checked, and scientifically approved information is more urgent than ever, together with our ongoing responsibility to ensure the safety of journalists in the delivery of their indispensable work. Accordingly, the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, of which Professor Irwin Cotler is a member, produced a series of four ground-breaking reports for the protection of media freedom and securing the safety of journalists at risk.

The second of these reports is titled “A Pressing Concern: Protecting and Promoting Press Freedom by Strengthening Consular Support to Journalists at Risk”, which was launched on November 16th, 2020 as part of the Global Conference on Media Freedom, co-hosted by the governments of Canada and Botswana. The report - authored by Professor Cotler - was endorsed by the RWCHR, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, Reporters Without Borders, and by the world’s leading lawyers, human rights experts, and press freedom organizations.

The RWCHR further participated in forums, both domestically and internationally, throughout the year to promote and advocate for media freedom. It remains one of the highest concerns around the world and one of the RWCHR’s top priorities moving into 2021.

To read more about our initiatives, please visit the News section of our website – raoulwallenbergcentre.org

MAGNITSKY LEGISLATION

The RWCHR is a global leader in the international campaign for the adoption and implementation of Magnitsky legislation - a targeted human rights sanction framework that allows for individual visa bans and asset seizures as a crucial tool in the struggle to combat cultures of corruption and criminality, and the impunity that empowers them. First proposed in Canada by Professor Irwin Cotler in his role as Parliamentarian, and later shepherded by the RWCHR to its historic unanimous adoption and effective implementation, the RWCHR’s leadership in Canada has anchored and inspired an international justice campaign.

The RWCHR has been instrumental in furthering the implementation and use of Magnitsky legislation in 2020. This year, the legislation was adopted by the European Union and the , and the release of a landmark report on targeted Magnitsky sanctions by the High-Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom.

To read more about our initiatives, please visit the News section of our website – raoulwallenbergcentre.org

11 POLITICAL PRISONERS CHINA POLITICAL PRISONERS

DR. WANG BINGZHANG AYATOLLAH HOSSEIN-KAZAMANI BOROUJERDI Dr. Bingzhang, founder of the overseas Chinese democracy Ayatollah Boroujerdi is a leading advocate for religious freedom, movement, has now languished in solitary confinement for 18 years democracy and human rights in Iran. In 2007, his death of his life sentence, despite suffering multiple strokes. In January sentence was commuted to 11 years in prison, where he was of 2019, his daughter and granddaughter were even barred from tortured and denied medical treatment for a number of serious visiting him in prison. The cruelty of Dr. Bingzhang’s tragic case conditions. Despite having served “his time,” he remains under demonstrates the lengths to which the Chinese government will go house arrest and constant surveillance, and is unable to perform to crush those aspiring for democracy, human rights and the rule of daily activities without assistance due to the long-term impact law, including someone suffering from chronic disease in his 70s. of his torture in detention. The authorities continue to deny The RWCHR continues to engage in public and private advocacy him necessary medical care, cut off his lines of communication, on his behalf, most recently releasing a White Paper and sending an and arrest and torture his supporters. open letter to China’s Ambassador to China. NASRIN SOTOUDEH SUN QIAN Nasrin Sotoudeh, the famed Iranian human rights lawyer Sun Qian is a Canadian Falon Gong practitioner who was known as the “Mandela of Iran”, was unjustly sentenced to arrested in 2017 and sentenced to eight years in prison in 2020 38 years in prison and 148 lashes in 2018. Ms. Sotoudeh has for her faith— a victim of China’s long-standing persecution dedicated nearly three decades to the most important cases and of the Falon Gong. Ms. Sun was denied legal counsel, subjected causes in Iran – defending women’s rights activists, children on to torture and inhumane conditions in detention, and forced death row, journalists, opposition leaders, religious minorities, into making a false confession and renouncing her Canadian public demonstrators, environmentalists and Iranian Nobel citizenship. She was sentenced weeks after a BC judge ruled Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, among countless others. She against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. continues to advocate for political prisoners from prison, having gone on a 46-day hunger strike protesting their imprisonment in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions during the pandemic. EKPAR ASAT The RWCHR serves as Ms. Sotoudeh’s international legal team Ekpar Asat is a Uyghur philanthropist and cutting-edge and has most recently been engaged in advocacy with other entrepreneur, who founded a media platform for the Uyghur leading human rights organizations on her behalf, including community and is known for building bridges between ethnic PEN America and the International Bar Association. groups in the region and the local government. In 2016, upon his return to China from the US State Department’s most prestigious professional exchange program, the authorities forcibly disappeared Mr. Asat into the government’s vast network of prison camps. Mr. Asat was reportedly sentenced to 15 years on trumped-up charges and is now suffering in solitary confinement. The RWCHR is working closely with Mr. Asat’s sister, Rayhan, in petitioning the US and Canadian government and UN, and publicly advocating for his release.

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13 POLITICAL PRISONERS IRAN & YEMEN POLITICAL PRISONERS

MEMBERS OF THE BAHA’Ì RAIF BADAWI Members of the Baha’ì faith are systematically persecuted and Raif Badawi has been unjustly imprisoned in Saudi Arabia unjustly imprisoned on the basis of their religion in Iran’s for nearly nine years for simply founding an online forum for state-orchestrated campaign of discrimination and persecution. discussions on issues of public concern and promoting freedom In Iran, close to 100 members of the Bahá’í faith are currently of expression, , and gender equality. He has gone on imprisoned. Seven Bahá’í leaders were released in 2017 and multiple hunger strikes to protest his ill-treatment and solitary 2018 after the RWCHR took up their cases and causes. More confinement in prison, most recently for lack of protection in recently, Iran’s repression of the Bahá’ís has extended to Yemen, prison after an assassination attempt. The RWCHR serves as where Houthi authorities recently sentenced nine Bahá’ís to a Raif Badawi’s legal counsel, has appealed directly to the Saudi total of 51 years and eight months in prison. 6 of the Bahá’ís leadership and actively petitions the US, Canada, the EU and prisoners of conscience including a member sentenced to death the UN for his release. were released after the RWCHR engaged in public advocacy on their behalf. Samar Badawi, Raif Badawi’s sister, is a women’s rights defender and leading campaigner for women’s ability to vote and drive and against the male guardianship in Saudi Arabia. She was arrested in July 2018 as part of an unprecedented crackdown on the women’s rights movement- among more than a dozen POLITICAL PRISONERS ERITREA activists detained, some of whom have been subjected to various forms of torture. The RWCHR has directly appealed to the UN and Saudi leadership for Ms. Badawi’s release and recently DAWIT ISAAK featured her in our women political prisoner campaign. Dawit Isaak, a Swedish-Eritrean journalist, author and social justice advocate, is the world’s longest held journalist, who was abducted in 2001 during a round-up of journalists and government critics and has been held incommunicado without Waleed Abulkhair, who served as lawyer to Raif and Samar charge or trial ever since in Ertirea, a country that consistently Badawi, was unjustly sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2014 for ranks the lowest out of 180 countries on Reporters without nothing other than speaking out against Saudi Arabia’s harsh Borders’ Press Freedom Index. For 19 years, Dawit has not seen sentencing of peaceful human rights defenders. In prison, he his family, lawyer or any consular access. No one has heard from has been subjected to beatings, solitary confinement, and forced him since 2005. The RWCHR is involved in seeking arrest sleep deprivation and denied access to a lawyer, family, and warrants against Isaias Afwerki, Eritrea’s only President since its required medication. The RWCHR has appealed to the UN and independence in 1993, along with seven senior accomplices for appeared in the media on his behalf. crimes against humanity, to bring this impunity to an end.

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15 POLITICAL PRISONERS RUSSIA POLITICAL PRISONERS PHILIPPINES

ANASTASIA SHEVCHENKO SEN. LEILA DE LIMA Anastasia Shevchenko is a coordinator for Open Russia, a Leila de Lima is a Senator, lawyer, human rights activist, movement promoting democratic values, human rights and former Chairperson of the Philippine Commission on Human the rule of law in Russia. She is the first Russian citizen to be Rights, and former Secretary of Justice. She has been unjustly criminally tried under the Kremlin’s “Undesirable Law.” She has detained since February 2017, is undergoing a prolonged trial been under house arrest for two years and faces up to six years and facing up to life in prison. Nonetheless, she continues to in prison in a country with an acquittal rate of 0.25%. Her stand up for the rule of law, human rights and democracy in prosecution serves as a dangerous warning to other peaceful the Philippines and is leading the struggle to seek justice for the activists. The RWCHR has produced a comprehensive white victims of crimes against humanity under Duterte’s so-called paper with the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) as a key “war on drugs.” The RWCHR has petitioned the UN and advocacy tool for her case and recently featured her in our recently featured Sen. de Lima in its women political prisoner women political prisoner campaign. and empowerment campaign.

ALEXEI PICHUGIN Alexei Pichugin is the longest serving political prisoner in Putin’s Russia. Pichugin was tortured in detention and encouraged to provide false testimony against CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was targeted for his human rights and pro-democracy leadership. Pichugin’s case has helped bring Russia’s human rights abuses and political repression into the mainstream consciousness, where the number of political prisoners has increased nearly eightfold over the past six years. The RWCHR is active in pushing to hold the high-level officials responsible for their persecution to justice.

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17 POLITICAL PRISONERS VENEZUELA RELEASED POLITICAL PRISONERS

JUDGE MARIA AFIUNI BIRAM DAH ABEID Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni, a Venezuelan judge, was arrested Biram Dah Abeid is a courageous politician and leader of the in December 2010 and has been in prison, and under house international anti-slavery movement. He has been arrested arrest and other restrictions since simply for fulfilling her and imprisoned several times by the Mauritanian government judicial duties. In November 2020, Venezuela’s highest court for his antislavery advocacy, most recently in 2018. Despite affirmed her five-year sentence on the absurd charge of Mauritanian authorities’ attempts to deprive him and the “spiritual corruption”- a first in Venezuelan history. She was Mauritanian people of their democratic , Biram was brutally tortured in prison to coerce other members of the legal elected to Parliament from his prison cell in September 2018. profession to comply with the regime, known as the “Afiuni Following his illegal detention and ascension to Parliament, effect” in Venezuela, a tactic that was used to issue the arrest thanks to those who raised their voices and did not relent, warrant for Leopoldo Lopez. In November 2020, the RWCHR Biram was again released from prison in December 2018. appealed to the UN and released a landmark report on behalf of Judge Afiuni to protect the independence of the Venezuelan legal profession with the IBA and HRF and recently featured SAEED MALEKPOUR her in our women political prisoner campaign. Saeed Malekpour returned to Canada in August of 2019 after spending eleven years unjustly imprisoned and tortured in Iran, following the commutation of a death sentence, for his software LEOPOLDO LOPEZ development work. The RWCHR helped facilitate his freedom Leopoldo López is a Venezuelan democratic opposition leader – working alongside his sister Maryam – and Professor Cotler who was imprisoned in February 2014, a result of a sham trial. served as his international legal counsel. The RWCHR For nearly seven years, he spent time in a military prison, house successfully petitioned the UN Working Group on Arbitrary arrest and under refuge in the Spanish embassy. He continues Detention to issue an opinion declaring his imprisonment the struggle for democratic change abroad. Professor Cotler arbitrary. He is now back in Canada where the RWCHR is serves as pro bono international legal counsel to Leopoldo López. pressing for the immediate granting of his Canadian citizenship.

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19 RELEASED POLITICAL PRISONERS PROGRAMATIC INITIATIVES

NARGES MOHAMMADI THE INAUGURAL ELIE WIESEL LECTURESHIP IN HUMAN RIGHTS In October 2020, Narges Mohammadi was released after serving nearly 6 years of a 16-year prison term, having been On Genocide Prevention Day, in one of the most attended events of the year, the RWCHR prosecuted for her work as a human rights advocate and founder partnered with the McGill University Faculty of Law, the University of Montreal Faculty of of an anti-death penalty group in a country that continues to Law, the Lord Reading Law Society, and IBAHRI to host the Inaugural Elie Wiesel Lectureship execute juvenile offenders. The RWCHR has engaged in public in Human Rights featuring The Honourable Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of advocacy on behalf of Narges Mohammadi, including an Canada. Justice Abella delivered a memorable lecture on “Reflections on the Legacy of the op-ed in May of 2020 during the height of the pandemic. Holocaust”, wherein she discussed lessons learned, the whole grounded in her own experience Professor Cotler first took up Ms. Mohammadi’s case while a as a daughter of Holocaust survivors, born in a displaced persons camp in in 1950, Parliamentarian upon her first unjust imprisonment in 2009, who became the first refugee ever appointed to the Court, and the first Jewish woman ever and when international advocacy secured her release in 2013. appointed to the .

MARYAM MOMBEINI Maryam Mombeini, an Iranian-Canadian citizen and widow of “WE ARE IN DANGER OF A NEW STATUS QUO, WHERE ANGER Kavous Seyed-Emami, the late professor and director of a TRIUMPHS OVER DIGNITY, AND INDIGNITY TRIUMPHS OVER DECENCY, leading environmental NGO in Iran, who died under suspicious AND WHERE INJUSTICE IS TOLERATED AND TOLERANCE IS NOT TOO circumstances in the notorious Evin Prison in February 2018 MUCH LIKE THE OLD STATUS QUO WE FOUGHT A WORLD WAR TO FIX.” was finally able to leave Iran after a travel ban that lasted 582 - JUSTICE ROSALIE ABELLA days and reunited with her sons in Canada. The RWCHR continues to advocate on behalf of Professor Seyed-Emami’s colleagues who are unjustly imprisoned for their conservation work in Iran, including an op-ed in March 2020.

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21 INITIATIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE RWCHR IN THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE IN THE MEDIA

RWCHR CO-SPONSORED A REPORT WITH UN WATCH AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION – THE HONOURABLE IRWIN COTLER, CANADA’S FIRST SPECIAL ENVOY ON EVALUATION OF UNHRC CANDIDATES FOR 2019-2021. PRESERVING HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE AND COMBATING ANTISEMITISM

THE HONOURABLE IRWIN COTLER WAS NOMINATED FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In November 2020, Professor Irwin Cotler was appointed by Prime Minister as BY FORMER PRIME MINISTER . Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism. This newly created position enables Professor Cotler to utilize government support in the fight against the world’s oldest form of hatred, and empowers Canada to fully enact the International RWCHR HOSTED WASHINGTON D.C. ADVOCACY DAY FOR SAUDI ARABIA PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE. Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism in the fight, a definition which has been widely adopted by various levels of government in Canada. RWCHR CO-SPONSORED THE GATHERING OF THE GENEVA SUMMIT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY. The Prime Minister stated, “With a longstanding record of leadership in the fight against racism, antisemitism, and hate, and extensive experience in human rights and justice including RWCHR PARTNERED WITH VANIER COLLEGE FOR THE 27TH ANNUAL VANIER COLLEGE SYMPOSIUM in cases related to mass atrocity crimes, Mr. Cotler will lead the Government of Canada’s ON THE HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE. delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). He will work with other member countries and both domestic and international partners to strengthen and promote Holocaust education, remembrance, and research in Canada and around the world.” RWCHR COMMISSIONED THE REPORT “KREMLINS POLITICAL PRISONERS: ADVANCING A POLITICAL AGENDA BY CRUSHING DISSENT”.

RWCHR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE HOUSE STANDING COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND LEADING PARLIAMENTARIANS FROM ALL PARTIES ORGANIZED IRAN ACCOUNTABILITY WEEK IN PARLIAMENT.

RWCHR CO-HOSTED THE #RIGHTSCITY CONFERENCE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE MONTREAL INSTITUTE FOR GENOCIDE AND HUMAN RIGHTS STUDIES.

THE HONOURABLE IRWIN COTLER SELECTED TO SERVE AS ONE OF THE LEGAL EXPERTS ON THE HIGH LEVEL PANEL AT THE GLOBAL CONFERENCE FOR MEDIA FREEDOM.

RWCHR AND THE HONOURABLE IRWIN COTLER ATTEND AND SPOKE AT THE “WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS IN CANADA AND ISRAEL: BARRIERS TO EXONERATION” CONFERENCE.

RWCHR HOSTED THE 2019 WALLENBERG LECTURESHIP: FEATURING JUSTICE LEONA THERON.

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23 RABBI LORD JONATHAN SACKS INITIATIVES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE RWCHR IN THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE - IN MEMORIAM Seeking justice for Raoul Wallenberg, the Can Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement disappeared hero of the Holocaust By Irwin Survive Yet Another Existential Threat? Cotler By Irwin Cotler — January 16, 2020 in National Post — May 25, 2020 in

The Never Again Declaration: A Model for Legal Steps Must be Taken Against China Remembrance and Action By Irwin Cotler for Initial Inaction By David Matas and — January 22, 2020 in Times of Israel Irwin Cotler — May 25, 2020 in Policy Options Opinion: Coronavirus presents a new threat to Iran’s political prisoners By Ana Diamond The World’s Most Technologically and Yonah Diamond Sophisticated Genocide Is Happening in — March 24, 2020 in National Post Xinjiang By Rayhan Asat and Yonah Diamond — July 15, 2020 in Foreign Policy Opinion: Xi Jinping’s China Did This By Irwin Cotler and Judith Abitan Uyghur Genocide in China: What the UK — April 12, 2020 in Times of Israel and its Allies Must Do to Confront the Mass Atrocities By Rayhan Asat and Yonah Opinion: The Chinese Communist Party’s Diamond A MESSAGE ON THE PASSING AND LEGACY OF LORD SACKS culture of corruption and repression has cost — August 26, 2020 in The Platform lives around the world By Irwin Cotler and There are many Rabbis that are great Rabbis; there are many scholars of whom it can be said Judith Abitan The Case for a New and Improved Magnitsky they are prolific writers; there are many Jewish and public intellectuals, generally, who enlighten — April 14, 2020 in The Globe and Mail Law By Irwin Cotler and Brandon Silver public discourse; and there are moral as well as intellectual leaders who engage in the betterment — September 12, 2020 in Policy Magazine of the human condition. But there are few Rabbis whose scholarly work is as profound as it is The Pandemic and Asylum Seekers: Threat prolific, who are leading Jewish and public intellectuals, who shaped and enlightened public and Response By Irwin Cotler The Chinese Communist Party and the discourse and debate, and who were great moral as well as intellectual leaders. Rabbi Jonathan — April 23, 2020 in Times of Israel Pandemic of Impunity By Irwin Cotler Sacks was one of those few. and Judith Abitan Opinion: Do Not Allow Saudi Arabia’s — October 13, 2020 in Medium As a scholar and author, from biblical commentary to moral philosophy, from speaking of Flogging Ban to Distract From the Repression Jewish civilization and its intersection with human civilizations, his writings are as compelling that Still Exists By Irwin Cotler Canada should name and shame Iranian as they are profound. As a moral leader, we have all been the beneficiaries of his wisdom. As a — April 30, 2020 in The Globe and Mail leaders repressing human rights advocates leading Jewish intellectual, he influenced and inspired both Jewish and public discourses and like Nasrin Sotoudeh By Helena Kennedy their intersection. Opinion: Covid 19: After Fighting for Iran’s and Irwin Cotler Most Vulnerable, these Imprisoned Women — October 23, 2020 in The Globe and Mail Rabbi Sacks was a guide to the perplexed in our time, and this is because, in addition to the Have Become the Most Vulnerable of all By already mentioned, he had a wonderful and immense heart. Blessed be his memory and may he Irwin Cotler Opinion | Indifference Is Complicity rest in peace. — May 12, 2020 in National Post By Irwin Cotler — December 23, 2020 in Moment Magazine

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