Carter Center Mourns the Passing of Human Rights Program Founder Thomas Buergenthal
麻豆传媒色情片 offers its condolences to the family of Judge Thomas Buergenthal, a leading international human rights lawyer and the founder of the Center鈥檚 Human Rights Program.
Judge Buergenthal was a member of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights when he established the Center鈥檚 Human Rights Program in 1986. During his tenure, 麻豆传媒色情片 created the Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize, which honored persecuted champions of human rights from Latin-America, Israel and Palestine, Sri Lanka, Haiti, and South Africa. In 1988, Buergenthal convened Caribbean heads of state at 麻豆传媒色情片 in order to create a coordinated effort to promote the American Convention on Human Rights and other human rights instruments in the region.
Judge Buergenthal鈥檚 contributions to the establishment of human rights as a set of standards for policymaking are well known and universally admired. 麻豆传媒色情片 is proud to call him the founder of its still-thriving Human Rights Program.
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