Lyal S. Sunga
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Lyal S. Sunga is a specialist on international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law.[1]
Career
[edit]OHCHR
[edit]From 1994 to 2001, Sunga worked for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, first to investigate facts and responsibilities relating to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda for the UN Security Council's Commission of Experts on Rwanda, to draft the commission's report recommending the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and then on the establishment and operation of the UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda.[2] In February 2001, he served as Secretary for the Asian Regional Preparatory Conference convened in Tehran, Iran that preceded the World Conference against Racism 2001 in Durban, South Africa.[3]
In late August 1994, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, José Ayala Lasso, called upon Sunga to bolster the UN Security Council's investigations into the massive violations of human rights and International humanitarian law perpetrated during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.[2]
He was a visiting professor in Peace Studies and International Relations and Global Politics at The American University of Rome,[4] a visiting professor at the Strathmore University School of Law[5] in Nairobi, Kenya, and RWI visiting professor and doctoral supervisor at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.[6]
China
[edit]From 2001 to 2005, he was an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and Director of the Master of Laws in Human Rights.[7]
UN Human Rights Council
[edit]From September to December 2007 Sunga took leave from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute to work as Geneva-based coordinator of the UN Human Rights Council's Group of Experts on Darfur, mandated to assess the Government of the Sudan's implementation of UN recommendations concerning serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law committed during the war in Darfur.[8]
Russia and Belarus
[edit]He is also a former Head of the Rule of Law program at The Hague Institute for Global Justice in the Netherlands,[9] and former Special Advisor on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the International Development Law Organization in Rome, Italy.[10]
From 2015 to 2021, Sunga gave masters-level human rights classes in UN-sponsored summer programs at Kazan Federal University,[11] Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Perm State University,[12] Voronezh State University[13] and Ural State Law University in Yekaterinburg.[14]
Italy
[edit]He is an adjunct professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, where he teaches courses on international criminal law, human rights, terrorism and counter-terrorism, public international law, and genocide at the masters and undergraduate levels.[1] He is also an affiliated professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund University, Sweden.[6]
Teaching
[edit]Before joining the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Hong Kong where he taught classes in law and administered a graduate program in human rights.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ a b John Cabot University (26 September 2019). "Championing Human Rights: Meet Professor Lyal S. Sunga". John Cabot University News. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ a b "ICTR". voicesofthetribunal.org. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ "Newsletter of the World Conference against Racism Secretariat" (PDF). December 2000.
- ^ "The American University of Rome appoints acclaimed Human Rights expert Dr. Lyal S. Sunga". The American University of Rome. 6 October 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ "Strathmore University School of Law".
- ^ a b "Lyal S. Sunga". The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ "University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law" (PDF).
- ^ "United Nations Group of Experts on Darfur Presents its Final Report to the Human Rights Council". December 2009.
- ^ Lyal Sunga (16 February 2022). 2015 Oct 10 Lyal Sunga Comment on US Bombing of Kunduz Hospital for China Central Television (CCTV). Retrieved 9 June 2024 – via YouTube.
- ^ "A Critical Appraisal of Laws Relating to Sexual Offences in Bangladesh". IDLO - International Development Law Organization. 16 October 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ "VIII Международная летняя школа Права человека для новых поколений \Международная деятельность - Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет". kpfu.ru. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ "Лаял С. Санга". VII Летняя школа по правам человека (in Russian). Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ Lyal Sunga (19 November 2017). 2017 June 29 Interview of Lyal S Sunga at Ural State Law University in Yekaterinburg Russia. Retrieved 9 June 2024 – via YouTube.
- ^ "V Summer School on Human Rights (2017)". riuc.ru. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ^ "The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law's Master of Laws in Human Rights Programme Details" (PDF).
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