Irwin Cotler speaks at ideacity's 20th anniversary conference in a session called "Democracy & Freedom of Speech vs. Disinformation in the age of Surveillance"

Hon. Irwin Cotler, The chair of the Raoul Wallenberg centre for Human Rights & an Emeritus Professor of law at McGill University, speaks on the resurgent of global authoritarianism and what that means for democracies. Cotler provides insights on current and historical political and human rights events including crimes against humanity, state orchestrated humanitarian suffering, and weaponization of food and medicine.

“We meet on the 25th anniversary of the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda…What makes the genocide of the Tutsi so unspeakable … is that this genocide was preventable. Nobody could say that we did not know. We knew, but we did not act.”

Hon. Irwin Cotler is the chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, an Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University, former Minister of Justice, Attorney General of Canada, longtime Member of Parliament, and an international human rights lawyer.