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Torkel Opsahl

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Torkel Opsahl (17 March 1931, Stavanger — 16 September 1993, Geneva) was a Norwegian human rights scholar, professor of the University of Oslo since 1965 and head of the board of its Human Rights Institute since 1987. From 1970 to 1984, he was a member of the European Commission of Human Rights. Between 1977 and 1986, he was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee. At the time of his death, Opsahl chaired the UN commission on war crimes in the former Yugoslavia.

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