About Kader Asmal
Abdul Kader Asmal was a lawyer in South Africa and Ireland and later a South African politician. He was a Senior Lecturer in Trinity College Dublin and a professor of human rights at the University of the Western Cape, chairman of the council of the University of the North and vice-president of the African Association of International Law. He was married to Louise Parkinson and had two sons. Asmal's political development first began in 1952 with the Defiance Campaign, when he was asked to become the secretary of the local rate payers' association. In 1996, World Wide Fund for Nature-South Africa awarded Asmal their gold medal for his conservation work. Upon moving to Ireland, he founded the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, and he also helped to establish the Irish Council for Civil Liberties and the Divorce Action Group.
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