HT: Payam Akhavan 12 Aug 13




Hardtalk show

Summary: HardTalk’s Allan Little speaks to leading international human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan, who made his name trying to bring to justice those responsible for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. He believes that the international community has a duty to challenge human rights abuses wherever they occur. But is true justice ever really possible – or is it compromised by the political constraints and realities of the day?