Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/09/25
By: Christie Chen
Taipei, Sept. 25 (CNA) Louise Arbour, winner of this year’s Tang Prize in rule of law, urged people on
Louise Arbour (second left).
Sunday not to settle for a world “simply ruled by laws,” but to strive for one where laws are just and justly enforced.
“Like many women of my generation across the world, I grew up in a society where laws perpetuated gender inequality and permitted the multitude of discriminatory practices, reflecting the lack of political power of minorities, whose voices were drowned in majority rule,” Arbour said in her acceptance speech at the award ceremony in Taipei.
She said the coming into force of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 and the birth of the international criminal justice system were two events that anchored her belief in the law as a force for good.
“As we move forward as a global society propelled by knowledge and scientific advances unimaginable not so long ago, we should forever resist the irrational forces that pull us apart,” the 69-year-old Arbour said. [FULL STORY]
