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Louise Arbour

Louise Arbour
CC GOQ
Louise Arbour - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2011.jpg
Louise Arbour at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in 2011
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
In office
July 1, 2004 – August 31, 2008
Nominated by Kofi Annan
Preceded by Sérgio Vieira de Mello
Bertrand Ramcharan
(acting High Commissioner)
Succeeded by Navi Pillay
Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
In office
September 15, 1999 – June 30, 2004
Nominated by Jean Chrétien
Preceded by Peter Cory
Succeeded by Rosalie Abella/Louise Charron
Personal details
Born (1947-02-10) February 10, 1947 (age 70)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Spouse(s) Larry Taman (common-law, estranged circa 1998)
Children 3

Louise Arbour, CC GOQ (born February 10, 1947) is a Canadian lawyer, prosecutor and jurist. Arbour was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario and a former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. From 2009 until 2014, she served as President and CEO of the International Crisis Group. She made history with the indictment of a sitting head of state, Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milošević, as well as the first prosecution of sexual assault as the articles of crimes against humanity.

Arbour was born in Montreal, Quebec to Bernard and Rose (née Ravary) Arbour, the owners of a hotel chain. She attended convent school, during which time her parents divorced. As editor of the school magazine, she earned a reputation for irreverence.

In 1967, she graduated from Collège Regina Assumpta, and proceeded to the Université de Montréal where she completed an LL.B. with distinction in 1970. She became the Law Clerk for Justice Louis-Philippe Pigeon of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1971–72 while completing graduate studies at the Faculty of Law (Civil Section) of the University of Ottawa. This is where she met her long time common-law partner Larry Taman, with whom she lived for 27 years. In a 2014 interview, Arbour named the move from Quebec to Ontario as the "biggest hurdle [she] had to overcome to succeed in [her] career," as her entire education had been in French.


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