Francois Zimeray is a lawyer, former politician, Human Rights activist and diplomat.
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26 Facts About Francois Zimeray
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Francois Zimeray was appointed on 13 February 2008 as French Ambassador-at-large for Human Rights by Nicolas Sarkozy and Bernard Kouchner.
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Francois Zimeray nearly lost his life in the 2015 Copenhagen shootings, Islamist terror attack on February 14,2015, where he was targeted together with other activists.
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In November 2018, the Internal Political Committee of the National Assembly of Venezuela chaired by Juan Guaido, designates Francois Zimeray to advise and assist him in the international courts and institutions regard to the serious violations of human rights committed in the country.
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Francois Zimeray has been the first non-career diplomat to hold this position since its creation in 2000 and has had the longest assignment so far.
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Francois Zimeray has worked with five different Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Secretary of State: Bernard Kouchner, Michele Alliot-Marie, Alain Juppe, Rama Yade and Laurent Fabius, then President of the COP21.
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In January and April 2012, Francois Zimeray went twice to Kharkov prison, attempting to visit former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko.
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Francois Zimeray went to Moscow for Mikhail Khodorkovsky's trial, to Kazakhstan to support the human rights defender Yevgeny Zhovtis.
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Francois Zimeray was released from prison in 2016, after her arrest and detention were found to be arbitrary by the United Nations.
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On February 14,2015, following the Paris terrorist attacks, Francois Zimeray was invited to give the keynote speech at Krudttønden in Copenhagen, a debate on freedom of expression and blasphemy, featuring Lars Vilks and Femen leader Inna Chevtchenko, when it was attacked by a masked gunman.
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Francois Zimeray played a decisive role in the organisation of the European campaign in support for Darfur.
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Francois Zimeray raised awareness and managed to mobilize French public opinion as well as political leaders.
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In May 2009, Francois Zimeray founded the Alliance of Lawyers for Human rights, based in Paris offering free legal expertise to associations, NGOs and institutions working in the field of human rights.
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Francois Zimeray is a prominent figure well known for his committed support for the Palestinian moderates and the Israeli "peace camp" in 2002.
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Francois Zimeray went to Gaza twice and described the attitude of people defining themselves as exclusively in favour of one side against the other as "intellectual hooliganism".
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Francois Zimeray founded the Cercle Leon Blum and worked to promote dialogue between European leaders and Middle Eastern political and civil society representatives as Chairman of the Medbridge Strategy Center founded in Brussels with prominent European politicians such as Willy De Clercq, Francois Leotard, Emma Bonino and Ana Palacio.
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Francois Zimeray then had several meetings with Shimon Peres, Mahmoud Abbas and King Abdullah II of Jordan.
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Francois Zimeray has defended cases before the European Court of Human Rights.
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Francois Zimeray is a member of the French Institute of International Legal Experts.
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Francois Zimeray worked in the Legal Affairs Committee and the Foreign Affairs and Defence Policy Committee.
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Francois Zimeray is the author of eight reports adopted unanimously and took part in the framing of the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
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The next year, at the request of Emma Bonino, former Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, Francois Zimeray went to Laos in order to defend and free a member of the European Parliament, as well as four other human rights defenders.
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Francois Zimeray, identified by former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, first made his mark in 1989 when at just 27 years old he was elected Mayor of Petit-Quevilly.
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Francois Zimeray transformed the city by creating parks, accommodation, new areas and facilities such as the multimedia library Francois Truffaut.
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