Louise Arbour
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Louise Arbour CC GOQ |
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Louise Arbour at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in 2011
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| United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights | |
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In office July 1, 2004 – August 31, 2008 |
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| Nominated by | Kofi Annan |
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Sérgio Vieira de Mello Bertrand Ramcharan (acting High Commissioner) |
| Succeeded by | Navi Pillay |
| Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada | |
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In office September 15, 1999 – June 30, 2004 |
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| Nominated by | Jean Chrétien |
| Preceded by | Peter Cory |
| Succeeded by | Rosalie Abella/Louise Charron |
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February 10, 1947 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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