Professional Training Series
International Human Rights
Acknowledgements
The Diplomatic Academy Board wishes to thank the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Bar Association and many individuals and organizations for the preparation of this specialized Professional Training programme (Manual).
DAe would also like to acknowledge the following distinguished leaders, experts and specialists:
Anna-Lena Svensson-McCarthy
Lord Goldsmith QC (Former Co-Chair of the IBA Human Rights Institute)
Ramon Mullerat OBE (Spain)
Fali Nariman (President, Bar Association of India)
Dr Phillip Tahmindjis (Assoc. Professor, Faculty of Law, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia; and Council Member, IBA Human Rights Institute)
Justice Michael Kirby (High Court of Australia)
Finn Lynghjern (Norway)
HE Ambassador Emilio Cardenas (Argentina, IBA Vice President)
Professor Christof Heyns (University of Pretoria)
Professor Carole Peterson (Associate Prof. University of Hong Kong)
Kazuyuki Azusawa (Vice Chair, IBA Human Rights Institute & Vice Chair of the Committee on International Human Rights, Japan Federation of Bar Association)
Michael Birnbaum
Coleman Ngalo
Justice Bernhard Schluter
Professor Dinah Shelton
Richard Stainsby
Professor David Weissbrodt
Marcia VJ Kran (Adjunct Prof., Faculty of Law, Univ of British Colombia, Canada)
Justice Lucien Beaulieu
Justice PN Bhagwati
Param Cumaraswamy (Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges & Lawyers)
Matar Drop
Anil Gayan
Louis Joinet
Justice Michael Kirby
Scott Leckie
William McCarney
Manfred Nowak
Craig Scott
Soli Sorabjee
Jean Trepanier
Rick Wilson
Our special thanks to the following Organizations
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
IBA Human Rights Institute
Adalah - The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Isreal
Amnesty International
The Commonwealth Scretariat
The Council of Europe
Franciscans International
The General Council of the Bar of South Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa)
The Secretariat of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Association of Certified Commercial Diplomats
The International Commission of Jurists
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission
Penal Reform International
The World Organization Against Torture