RightsCity: Lt-Gen.Romeo Dallaire: Global Human Rights Leader

As part of its #RightsCity initiative, the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies is launching a new podcast featuring thought leaders from Canada and abroad. The aim is to gain insights into pressing human rights issues and to re-energize the international human rights community during a time of great upheaval.

Roméo Dallaire is a celebrated advocate for human rights, especially in regards to child soldiers, veterans, and the prevention of mass atrocities, General Dallaire is also a respected government and UN advisor and former Canadian Senator. He is the founder of the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, a global partnership with the mission to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers, and the Distinguished Senior Fellow at MIGS.

Most notably, General Dallaire was appointed Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda prior to and during the 1994 genocide