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- Date: 18 February 2022 17:30 for 18:00
- Topic: Restorative Justice and Restitution: Unfinished Business from the TRC
Yasmin Sooka is a South African human rights lawyer and served as a Commissioner on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission appointed by President Mandela in 1995. She served as one of three international Commissioners on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone appointed by Mary Robinson. She currently chairs the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan, established by the Human Rights Council in Geneva to investigate serious crimes in South Sudan and collect and preserve evidence for future accountability efforts. In 2011, Yasmin Sooka served as advisor to Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations as a member of the Panel of Experts advising on Accountability for War Crimes in Sri Lanka. In 2015, she served on the Secretary General’s Panel investigating Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) by French Peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. She also served as a member of the High-level Advisory Group on the Global Review of Resolution 1325. She is the former Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa, where she served between 2011 and 2019.