Lyal S. Sunga

[3] In late August 1994, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, José Ayala Lasso, called upon Sunga to bolster the UN Security Council's investigations into the massive violations of human rights and International humanitarian law perpetrated during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

[7] From September to December 2007 Sunga took leave from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute to work as Geneva-based coordinator of the UN Human Rights Council's Group of Experts on Darfur, mandated to assess the Government of the Sudan's implementation of UN recommendations concerning serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law committed during the war in Darfur.

[14] He is an adjunct professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, where he teaches courses on international criminal law, human rights, terrorism and counter-terrorism, public international law, and genocide at the masters and undergraduate levels.

[1] He is also an affiliated professor at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Lund University, Sweden.

[6] Before joining the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, he was a member of the faculty at the University of Hong Kong where he taught classes in law and administered the Masters program in human rights.

Photo of Lyal S. Sunga, former investigator, UN Security Council