Peter Leuprecht

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Peter Leuprecht (* 1937 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian-Canadian international lawyer and human rights activist .

Life

Leuprecht spent his childhood in the Ausserfern district in Tyrol . He studied Jus at the University of Innsbruck and then was an assistant in international law Felix Ermacora .

From 1961 Leuprecht worked as a lawyer at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . In 1967, after the coup d'état in Greece , he became the rapporteur where he first met victims of torture . From 1980 to 1993 he was Director for Human Rights, then Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe. He resigned in protest against what he believed to be the premature admission of Russia .

Leuprecht moved with his family from Strasbourg to Canada , and taught as a professor at several universities, as well as dean of the law faculty at McGill University in Montreal .

From 2000 to 2005 he was Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations for human rights in Cambodia .

Publications

  • Power and impotence of human rights: reflections on the 50th anniversary of the general declaration of human rights , Liechtenstein Academy, Vaduz 1998, ISBN 3-7211-1035-8 .
  • The Council of Europe and Human Rights: Speech at the "Forum Europe" of the Austria Section of the European Educators' Association on December 11, 1987 , Verlag für Geschichte und Politik, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7028-0273-8 .

Audio

  • 2009: For a Europe of justice and humanity. The lawyer Peter Leuprecht , images of man , design: Johann Kneihs, May 3, 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ^ McGill Newsroom New Dean of Law, April 27, 1999
  2. ^ ORF Ö1: Images of Man, on Peter Leuprecht ( Memento from May 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME Leuprecht, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Canadian international lawyer and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg