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Cedric Henry Reid Thornberry (22 June 1936 – 6 May 2014) was a Northern Irish international lawyer and Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations, for which he worked for 17 years.
Jun 1, 2014 · Cedric Thornberry obituary. Human rights lawyer who played a key part in the UN's attempts to resolve conflict in areas such as Namibia and the Balkans.
Thornberry, Cedric Henry Reid (1936–2014), human rights lawyer, journalist and UN official, was born on 22 June 1936 at 14 Ardmore Park South, Belfast, the elder son of (William Henry) Laylee Thornbury, headmaster of Lurgan Model School, and his wife Lila (née Watson).
Jun 14, 2014 · Cedric Thornberry, who has died aged 77, was a pioneer in the teaching of international human rights law who continually sought to use his learning to make the world a better place.
Arguments of both kinds were made before the United Kingdom's 1975 referendum on European Community membership as well as the 2016 Brexit referendum. 1 “Euroskeptics” have long denounced adherence to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg as an unacceptable limitation on British sovereignty. 2 Yet, as the case of Tyrer v.
Jul 10, 2020 · As deputy chief of the UN mission, he sought to broker talks between the warring parties, and protect minority groups from the threat of ethnic cleansing.
Cedric Thornberry joined the in 1978 and became involved in the internationally-supervised settlement of the Namibia question. He became Chief of staff of the Transition Assistance Group (United Nations Transition Assistance Group).
