Human Rights A Day

Louise Arbour appointed to Supreme Court before heading world human rights. Louise Arbour was born on February 10, 1947 in Montreal, Quebec. Her distinguished career started at the University of Montreal, where she earned her law degree before clerking for a Supreme Court of Canada judge and earning her masters in law at the University of Ottawa. She taught criminal law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto’s York University, first as a lecturer and finally as associate dean in 1987. Arbour was appointed to Ontario’s High Court of Justice before a quick elevation to Ontario’s top court in 1990. She gained national attention with her enquiry into the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario, after violence erupted more than once. She moved to the international stage in 1996 when she was appointed the chief prosecutor of war crimes in the Hague for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, where among other accomplishments, she indictment former Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević for crimes against humanity. Arbour l