Richard Anderson Falk
1930
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
native language: American English
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Yale Law School, Harvard Law School
occupation: human rights activist, university teacher, peace activist
award received: Guggenheim Fellowship
position held: United Nations Special Rapporteur
Richard Anderson Falk (born November 13, 1930) is an American professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University, and Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor's Chairman of the Board of Trustees. In 2004, he was listed as the author or coauthor of 20 books and the editor or coeditor of another 20 volumes. Falk has published extensively with multiple books written about international law and the United Nations. In 2008, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) appointed Falk to a six-year term as a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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