Kader Asmal

Kader Asmal (1934 to 2011) was a lawyer in South Africa and Ireland and later a South African politician. He was a senior lecturer at Trinity College Dublin for 27 years, 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. Born in Stanger, KwaZulu-Natal, he started the British Anti-Apartheid Movement while in London and, living in Ireland between the 1960s and 1990s, led the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement. He received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University Belfast in 1996 and was a laureate of the 2000 Stockholm Water Prize.