Irwin Cotler served as Canada’s justice minister and attorney-general from 2003 to 2006, during which he overturned more wrongful convictions in one year than any previous minister
Former Canadian attorney-general Irwin Cotler says he was only five or six years old when his father told him his mission in life would be the pursuit of justice.
The prize is awarded by the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice and is named after late U.S. representative and activist Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor.He grew up in Montreal in the 1940s with his father, a modest lawyer who devoted much of his time to pro bono work, and his mother, an endlessly caring woman who taught Mr. Cotler the importance of even the smallest gestures of kindness.
“Therefore, one good deed by any one of us, at any given moment in time, changes the ledger from evil to good. So, every day, we can do a good deed and every day we can, so to speak, better the human condition.” “What the entire bystander international community did not do, one person showed that with the compassion and courage to act, you can transform history.”Mr. Cotler is now the founder and international chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. And while he is perhaps best known for the advocacy he does there and past legal work he has done to free political prisoners around the world, his efforts in politics and academia have also been extensive.
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