(1940-05-08) 8 May 1940 (age 83) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Political party
Liberal
Spouse
Ariela Cotler
Residence(s)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Profession
Lawyer, law professor, Founder and Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
Irwin CotlerPC OC OQ[1] (born 8 May 1940) is a retired Canadian politician who was Member of Parliament for Mount Royal from 1999 to 2015. He served as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2003 until the Liberal government of Paul Martin lost power following the 2006 federal election. He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election in November 1999, winning 92% of votes cast.[2]
^"Les nominations à l'Ordre national du Québec 2017" (PDF). Retrieved 3 March 2020.
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which attracted 1,500 Israeli and Palestinian women. On October 7, 2023, IrwinCotler reported on Twitter that Silver had been abducted from her home in Be'eri...
Jewish state." Prof. IrwinCotler has defined delegitimization as one of the nine sets of what he calls "new antisemitism". Cotler uses the term political...
international human rights lawyer and former Canadian Minister of Justice IrwinCotler in 2015. The RWCHR's mission is to mobilize a "unique international consortium"...
editorial board is composed of former Jerusalem Report editor Sharon Ashley, IrwinCotler, Efraim Halevy, Saul Singer, and Ehud Yaari. Yehuda Avner was a member...
the appellation "apartheid," and former Canadian Minister of Justice IrwinCotler has also criticized Sudan in similar terms. War of Visions by Francis...
Statute of the International Criminal Court". Its signatories included IrwinCotler, former Attorney-General of Canada; the organiser of the letter was Dan...
several times by Mauritanian authorities. His case has been taken up by IrwinCotler and the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. Biram was born in 1965...
Representatives adopted a resolution condemning the phrase as antisemitic. IrwinCotler coined the term "genocidal antisemitism" to describe public calls and...
its military response. According to Canadian MP and former minister IrwinCotler, the use of law to delegitimize Israel is present in five areas: United...
Nuremberg Forty Years Later: The Struggle Against Injustice in Our Time By IrwinCotler, McGill University. Faculty of Law, InterAmicus (Association) p35-36...
apartheid analogy, and the necessity of a one-state solution. According to IrwinCotler, the lopsided number of anti-Israel resolutions passed by the UN is an...
Deschênes Commission's report. Canadian politician and human rights advocate IrwinCotler, who was chief counsel to the Canadian Jewish Congress at the Deschênes...
the appellation "apartheid", and former Canadian Minister of Justice IrwinCotler has also criticized Sudan in similar terms. Black Egyptian President...
Academic Board of Advisors included former Canadian Minister of Justice IrwinCotler and historian Irving Abella. ISGAP's chairman is Natan Sharansky. ISGAP...
World Jewish Congress, was founded. In 2020, former attorney-general IrwinCotler was appointed Canada's first special envoy for Holocaust remembrance...
Retrieved 19 May 2016. IrwinCotler cited Dershowitz, Alan. The Case For Israel. John Wiley and Sons, 2003, p. 210-211. IrwinCotler, Making the world...
2023, she was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to replace IrwinCotler as Canada's Special Envoy on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism...
intervention in court to challenge Law 21. Federal antisemitism envoy IrwinCotler has called Law 21 "discriminatory", adding that "It does not so much...
to concerns of anti-Semitic rhetoric, Poilievre and Liberal Party MP IrwinCotler were sent to Geneva, Switzerland, to attend the alternative Conference...
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reading on February 1, 2005, after its introduction by Justice minister IrwinCotler. C-38 was written on the basis of a draft bill produced by then-Justice...
Biographical Directory of the Parliament of Canada. Parliament of Canada. "IrwinCotler". Biographical Directory of the Parliament of Canada. Parliament of Canada...
Practice. He was also a co-editor with Canadian Member of Parliament IrwinCotler for The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities...
the information from an article by IrwinCotler and Ruth Wisse published in the American magazine, Commentary. Cotler eventually issued a written apology...
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