Kaveh Shahrooz

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Kaveh Shahrooz, a lawyer and human rights activist, is a former senior policy advisor on human rights to Global Affairs Canada and a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. A graduate of Harvard Law School and the University of Toronto, he has written widely on human rights issues and international affairs. He recently led a successful effort to convince Canada's parliament to recognize the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran as constituting crimes against humanity under international law. He resides in Toronto.