Mr. Chile Eboe-Osuji

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Chile Eboe-Osuji is the current Legal Advisor to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. He has worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), where he was Principal Legal Adviser to the Chambers from 2008 – 2009. Prior to that, he was a Senior Appeals Counsel at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) and a Senior Legal Officer in the Office of the Prosecutor at the ICTR where he worked on the case of Bagosora, Nsengiyumva, Kabiligi and Ntabakuze, as well as the Semanza case. Prior to his work at the ICTR and SCSL, Mr. Eboe-Osuji was a barrister in Toronto, Canada, appearing in a number of civil, constitutional and criminal cases at all levels of court in Canada. He has written and lectured on various legal topics, especially in the field of international criminal law, and is a lecturer of International Criminal Law at the University of Ottawa Faculty Of Law in Ontario, Canada.