CLPE Fellow Profile
CLPE Fellow: Sujith Xavier
From May to August of 2009, Sujith worked with Al-Haq, an
international nongovernmental organization with UN consultative status in
Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) as a legal intern documenting war crimes
and crimes against humanity. In July 2008, Sujith was appointed Legal Advisor
to Home For Human Rights, an advocacy NGO working in the conflict zones of
North and Eastern province of Sri Lanka and spent two months in Colombo and
Vavuniya Sri Lanka monitoring the humanitarian crisis. From 2007 to 2008,
Sujith was Research Associate and Research Manager of Health Law, Ethics and
Policy Group, Faculty of Law University of Toronto. Sujith has worked as a
Legal Researcher for the McGill Clinic for the Sierra Leone Special Court and
McGill University's Faculty of Education. Prior to
undertaking his legal studies, Sujith worked in the field as a researcher and
documentation officer for an advocacy NGO in Sri Lanka documenting human rights
violations in the conflict zones.
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