Raynell Andreychuk
A. Raynell Andreychuk (born August 14, 1944 in Saskatoon , Saskatchewan ) is a Canadian politician of the Conservative Party of Canada . From 1993 to 2019 she represented the province of Saskatchewan in the Senate of Canada .
Life
Andreychuk graduated from the University of Saskatchewan , where she earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws . She has served as a judge on the Provinincial Court of Saskatchewan and Chancellor of the University of Regina . She later served as Canadian Ambassador and High Commissioner in Kenya , Uganda , Somalia , the Comoros and Portugal and as Canada's Envoy to the United Nations Environment Program and the UN Human Rights Commission . In 1993 she became a Senator in the Senate of Canada on the proposal of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney . Within the Senate, she initially belonged to the faction of the Progressive Conservative Party and from 2004 to the Conservative Party . Andreychuk has been on the Russian government's sanctions list since April 2014 as a result of the Ukraine crisis. On August 13, 2019, she left the Senate after reaching the age limit of 75.
Works (selection)
- The work of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights: an overview of Children: The Silenced Citizens , Saskatchewan Law Review, 71: 23-38 No. 1 2008
- Democracy in the 21st century: Children: the silenced citizens , Canadian Parliamentary Review, 30 (2): 2-3 Summer 2007
- Human rights and Canadian foreign policy , University of New Brunswick Law Journal, 45: 311-17 1996
Web links
- Raynell Andreychuk - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)
- Biography at the Senate of Canada
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Andreychuk, Raynell |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Andreychuk, A. Raynell |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian Conservative Party politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1944 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Saskatoon , Saskatchewan |