Zitat des Tages von Amal Clooney:
I want to work on cases that I feel the most passionate about.
The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.
If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.
Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him. In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of state repression makes a mockery of the rule of law.
A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in the country they came from.
I think the international community should be ashamed that they haven't done more for the Yazidis.
There is lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors that is not ever seen.
Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.
I think it's important for tourists to know the facts of what's happening in the Maldives. I don't think people realize that there's a flogging taking place a kilometer away when they're sunbathing in their resort.
