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Prof. Cotler is a former Justice Minister of Canada.
- He received his undergraduate and law degrees at McGill University in Montreal, where he later became a professor of law.
- He served as director of McGill's Human Rights from 1973 until his election into the Canadian Parliament in 1999. As a Member of Parliament, Cotler was a strong advocate for human rights.
- He not only co-chaired the Parliamentary Human Rights Group, but also founded Parliamentarians for Global Action and the Save Darfur Parliamentary Coalition.
- As Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, he made international justice a priority, initiating the first indictment under the Canadian War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Act for incitement to genocide in Rwanda.
- He is also presently working with international lawyers to indict Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for incitement to genocide, as well.
Iran's Incitement to Genocide Violates the Genocide Convention
Irwin Cotler's presentation at the 60 Years Since the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Genocide Convention sponsored by the Global Law Forum at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Bar Ilan University's Law and Political Science Departments, and NGO Monitor, held on December 9-10. Cotler documents Ahmadinejad's usage of State-Sanctioned Incitement to Genocide and how this violates the Convention.
