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Torkel Opsahl (17 March 1931 in
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— 16 September 1993 in
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) was a Norwegian human rights scholar, professor of the
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since 1965 and head of the board of its Human Rights Institute since 1987. From 1970 to 1984, he was a member of the
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. Between 1977 and 1986, he was a member of the UN
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. In 1992-1993 he chaired an independent commission exploring ways forward for Northern Ireland, out of which came the influential book 'A Citizens' Inquiry: the Opsahl Report on Northern Ireland'. Opsahl died from a
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at his office in Geneva on 16 September 1993. At the time of his death, he was chairing the UN commission on war crimes in the former Yugoslavia.


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* Njål Høstmælingen * Tove Stang Dahl 1931 births 1993 deaths Academic staff of the University of Oslo Norwegian legal scholars United Nations Human Rights Committee members Members of the European Commission of Human Rights Norwegian officials of the United Nations {{Norway-law-bio-stub