Irwin Cotler pursuing justice on a global scale

This human rights scholar and advocate of international note is both dedicated to a slate of human rights issues and is in high demand to speak and lecture all over the world.

Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr and former Liberal MP and justice minister Irwin Cotler, pictured March 31 in Toronto to launch the Pearson Centre's 'Pursuing Justice' project. Photographs courtesy Massimiliano Galassi

Opinion

BY ANDREW CARDOZO

April 13, 2016

OTTAWA—“Where are they now?” is frequent question about former Parliamentarians. The answer for Irwin Cotler is that he is founding chair of the new Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, based in Montreal but national and in fact and international in scope. And not surprising. This human...

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