{"id":12886,"date":"2016-06-28T09:40:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T09:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=12886"},"modified":"2016-06-28T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T09:40:40","slug":"yasmin-sooka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/yasmin-sooka\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasmin Sooka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question: Who has been appointed to chair a UN commission to monitor the human rights situation in South Sudan?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Yasmin Sooka<br \/>\n(b) Kailash Satyarthi<br \/>\n(c) Scott Long<br \/>\n(d) Samar Badawi<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In June 2016, South African Indian-origin lawyer and long-time human rights activist Yasmin Sooka has been appointed to chair a UN commission to monitor the human rights situation in South Sudan.<\/li>\n<li>The three member commission also includes Mr. Kenneth R. Scott (USA) and Mr. Godfrey M. Musila (Kenya).<\/li>\n<li>The commission is constituted to investigate into alleged atrocities by both government and rebel forces before an independent South Sudan was carved out of the larger Sudan in 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Yasmin Sooka is currently the Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa.<\/li>\n<li>The foundation is known for its Human rights and anti-racism works.<\/li>\n<li>Before this she was appointed by the United Nations to serve on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone and was also appointed to the three-member Panel of Experts advising the Secretary General on accountability for war crimes committed during the final stages of the war in Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/SP\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20097&amp;LangID=E\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/SP\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20097&amp;LangID=E<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article59293q\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article59293q<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/world\/africa\/240616\/indian-origin-lawyer-to-chair-panel-on-human-rights-in-south-sudan.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/world\/africa\/240616\/indian-origin-lawyer-to-chair-panel-on-human-rights-in-south-sudan.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/peace_prize\/nppc\/the_committee_members\/ms_yasmin_sooka.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.npf.or.jp\/english\/peace_prize\/nppc\/the_committee_members\/ms_yasmin_sooka.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Who has been appointed to chair a UN commission to monitor the human rights situation in South Sudan? (a) Yasmin Sooka (b) Kailash Satyarthi (c) Scott Long (d) Samar Badawi Ans: (a) Related facts: In June 2016, South African Indian-origin lawyer and long-time human rights activist Yasmin Sooka has been appointed to chair a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}