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Mar 24, 1961 63 years old
international human rights lawyer
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About Curtis Doebbler
- Curtis F.J.
- Doebbler is an international human rights lawyer who since 1988 has been representing individuals before international human rights bodies in Africa, Europe, the Americas and before United Nations bodies.
- He is also an American lawyer authorized to practice before the courts of the District of Columbia or Washington, DC and in the State of Texas and several federal courts in the United States, including the Supreme Court of the United States.Doebbler was born in 1961 in Buffalo, New York, and has American, Palestinian, and Dutch nationality.He is known for his outspoken opposition to human rights violations by the U.S.
- government and his support of individuals in countries that have been subject to armed attacks by the United States.
- He has worked almost two decades in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East teaching international human rights law and representing individuals in human rights cases. In the case of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Doebbler argued before the Iraqi Special Tribunal that the court was illegal and did not respect human rights.He has made representations before the UN Human Rights Council and at numerous side-events of the Council calling for an impartial, fair and equal application of international human rights law and an end the selective punishment of human rights violators, especially by taking steps to end the impunity of powerful countries.He has advised governments, including the Palestinian National Authority and the Hamas government.He is currently Research Professor of Law at the University of Makeni, Department of Law in Sierra Leone and a visiting professor at Webster University in Geneva.
