Last updated on:
11/10/2008 |
Author: ProCon.org
T. Kumar, LLM Biography
- Title:
- Advocacy Director for Asia and the Pacific for Amnesty International USA
- Position:
- Con to the question "Should the Death Penalty Be Allowed?"
- Reasoning:
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“Hindus, not only because they are Hindus, but because they are human beings, should take this particular issue of human rights, namely the death penalty, as a basic issue to fight to abolish the death penalty in this country.”
Interview for Amnesty International’s Faith in Action Online Event, Oct. 12, 2002
- Theoretical Expertise Ranking:
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Experts
Individuals with MDs, JDs, PhDs, or equivalent advanced degrees in fields relevant to death penalty issues. Also top-level government officials (such as foreign leaders, US presidents, Founding Fathers, Supreme Court Justices, members of legislative bodies, cabinet members, military leaders, etc.) with positions relevant to death penalty issues. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Advocacy Director, Asia and the Pacific, Amnesty International USA
- Lecturer, Foreign Service Institute
- Professor, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law
- Judge of Elections, Philadelphia
- Testified before US Senate, “Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines,” Mar. 14, 2007
- Testified before US Senate Committee on Finance, “Human Rights in Vietnam,” July 12, 2006
- Testified before US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, “US-China Relations,” Sep. 11, 2003
- United Nations Representative, Peace Brigades International
- Consultant, Quaker United Nations Office
- Former director, refugee ships and refugee camps
- Education:
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- LLM, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Other:
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- Imprisoned for five years in Sri Lanka for human rights activities. Amnesty International adopted him as a Prisoner of Conscience (a non-violent political prisoner).
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