R2P: Exploring our Responsibility to Protect the People of Afghanistan

Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji is a Distinguished International Jurist at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law and a Special Advisor to the President’s Office at Ryerson University. The Nigerian-born Judge Eboe-Osuji recently completed his term as President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. He was also concurrently serving as a senior judge in the Appeals Division of the ICC from March 2018 to March 2021.  

Prior to joining the ICC, Judge Eboe-Osuji served as the Legal Advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva where he anchored the High Commissioner’s interventions in cases involving human rights questions. Earlier in his career he held several posts at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Before joining the international public service, Judge Eboe-Osuji practiced law as a courtroom advocate before the courts in both Canada and Nigeria.

Judge Eboe-Osuji is a visiting professor at Stanford University Law School and a senior fellow at Cambridge University. He has also taught international criminal law as adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa.

 (PDF file) Read Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji's statement.

Dr. Valerie Oosterveld is a full Professor at Western University's Faculty of Law. Her research and writing focus on gender issues within international criminal justice. 

She is the Associate Director of Western’s Centre for Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction and a member of the Canadian Partnership for International Justice.

Before joining Western Law, Valerie served in the Legal Affairs Bureau of Global Affairs Canada and on the Canadian delegation to the International Criminal Court negotiations.

Dr. Jennifer Orange is an assistant professor in the Lincoln Alexander School of Law. Prior to this, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Bill Graham Institute for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, a member of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and a litigator at Torys LLP.

Orange has written in the areas of international law, constitutional law, human rights, truth and reconciliation, and museology, including publications in Human Rights Quarterly, the UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, and the Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship.

As of April 2021, Jennifer has been appointed as a part-time member of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal for a 5 year term.

Dr. Tina J. Park is a co-founder and executive director of the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (external link, opens in new window) , based at the University of Toronto.

She is also a vice-president of the NATO Association of Canada (external link, opens in new window)  and a frequent media commentator on NATO, Asia-Pacific and human rights issues.

Dr. Park is a fellow at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (external link, opens in new window)  at Carleton University and the C.E.O. of The Park Group Inc. (external link, opens in new window) , a boutique agency which specializes in policy consulting and conference management for pressing challenges in Canadian foreign policy and global governance.

Dr. Sanjay Ruparelia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University, and holds the Jarislowsky Democracy Chair, made possible by a generous donation from the Jarislowsky Foundation.

In addition to a PhD in Politics from the University of Cambridge, Dr. Ruparelia holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours-Political Science) from McGill University and a Master of Philosophy (Sociology and Politics of Development) from the University of Cambridge.

Prior to joining the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University, Dr. Ruparelia was Associate Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research. Prior to the New School, he was assistant director of the South Asia Institute, a lecturer at Columbia University, and served as a consultant to the United Nations.

Judge Albert Wong was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and emigrated to Canada in 1971. Albert was appointed Citizenship Judge by the Government of Canada in June 2014.

Prior to this appointment, he had over thirty-nine years of service in the Canadian Armed Forces. He served in various public affairs positions with the military across Canada; on a UN peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia; with a multi-national headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark; and with a Strategic Advisory Team in Afghanistan. He attained the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

He also served as the Chief Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from April 2013 to December 2020. He was awarded the Vice-Regal commendation in 2014.

The Honourable Bob Rae currently serves as the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations (UN) in New York.  

Mr. Rae’s passion for social justice dates back to his early days in student politics and community service. Between 1978 and 2013, he was elected 11 times to federal and provincial parliaments, and served as the Premier of Ontario from 1990 to 1995. Mr. Rae stepped down as a Member of Parliament in 2013 to return to legal practice and, in particular, to work with Indigenous communities and continue his work in education, governance, and human rights.  

In October 2017, Mr. Rae was appointed as Canada’s Special Envoy to Myanmar. In this role, he engaged in diplomatic efforts to address the crisis in the country’s Rakhine State and wrote the report Tell Them We’re Human in 2018. In March 2020, he was named Canada’s Special Envoy on Humanitarian and Refugee Issues to continue the important work he started as Special Envoy to Myanmar, while also addressing other pressing humanitarian and refugee issues around the world.

Bob Rae is a Privy Councillor, a Companion of the Order of Canada, a member of the Order of Ontario, and has numerous awards and honorary degrees from institutions in Canada and around the world.