1. Christopher John Robert Dugard was born on 23 August 1936 and is a South African professor of international law.
23 Facts About John Dugard
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John Dugard has served on the International Law Commission, the primary UN institution for the development of international law, and has been active in reporting on human-rights violations by Israel in the Palestinian territories.
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John Dugard has written several books on human rights and international law, especially the crime of apartheid, in addition to coauthoring textbooks on criminal law and procedure and international law.
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John Dugard attended Queen's College Boys' High School in Queenstown, passing Matriculation in 1953.
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John Dugard earned his BA and LLB degrees at Stellenbosch University, and a second LLB and LL.
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John Dugard was Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge from 1995 to 1997.
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In 1998, John Dugard was appointed Chair in Public International Law at Leiden University in the Netherlands and as Director of the Advanced LL.
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John Dugard has held visiting professorships at Princeton University, Duke University, UC Berkeley and University of Pennsylvania, and University of New South Wales.
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John Dugard has, since 1997, served as a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations.
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In 2001, John Dugard was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur to UNCHR.
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John Dugard was required to submit annual reports and recommendations to the UNCHR concerning the situation of international human rights and humanitarian law in the Palestinian territories.
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On 26 September 2006, John Dugard reported that the "standards of human rights in the Palestinian territories have fallen to intolerable new levels".
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John Dugard released a report to the General Assembly in February 2007 that stated "Israel's laws and practices certainly resemble aspects of apartheid" in the Palestinian territory.
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Critics noted that John Dugard was appointed in 2001 as an unpaid expert by UNCHR to investigate only violations by the Israeli side.
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John Dugard issued a report to the General Assembly in 2008.
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In 2009, Dugard was replaced as Special Rapporteur by United States professor of international relations Richard A Falk.
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John Dugard stated that Israeli settlers had two choices: to "leave the occupied territories" or "live under Palestinian law".
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John Dugard compared Israeli policy in the occupied Palestinian territory to apartheid in South Africa in a November 2011 article for Al Jazeera.
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John Dugard claimed that Israeli security forces, like the South African Security Police, "practiced torture on a large scale".
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John Dugard further maintained that "more Palestinians have been killed in targeted assassinations of combatants [by Israel] than were judicially executed in South Africa".
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John Dugard was one of 52 international figures who signed a 2012 letter calling for a military embargo against Israel on the eve of the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine.
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John Dugard is a member of the Institut de Droit International.
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John Dugard is a member of the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative Advisory Council, a project of the Whitney R Harris World Law Institute at Washington University School of Law in St Louis to establish the world's first treaty on the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity.