Kader Asmal

Abdul Kader Asmal was a lawyer in South Africa and Ireland and later a South African politician. He was a Senior Lecturer in Trinity College Dublin and a professor of human rights at the University of the Western Cape, chairman of the council of the University of the North and vice-president of the African Association of International Law. He was married to Louise Parkinson and had two sons. While living in Ireland between the 1960s and 1990s, Asmal led the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement.