She lived for 27 years<\/a> with common-law partner Larry Taman before they separated. She has three adult children with Taman \u2014 Emilie, Patrick and Catherine \u2014 and three grandchildren.<\/p>\n What are some of her achievements?<\/p>\n She was appointed<\/a> to the Supreme Court of Ontario in 1987, and in 1990 became the first Francophone to be appointed to the Court of Appeal in the province.<\/p>\n In 1995 she was named head of a commission to investigate allegations of abuse at the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ont. The result was the Arbour Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n The following year she was appointed chief prosecutor of war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. In 1999, she announced an indictment<\/a> against Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107 for crimes committed in Kosovo, the first indictment against a sitting head of state ever to be issued by an international tribunal.<\/p>\n Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada\u2019s next Governor General Louise Arbour during a media availability announcing her appointment at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa on May 5, 2026.<\/p>\n The indictment would become the basis for the film Hunt for Justice<\/a>, a Canadian-German co-production with Canadian actress Wendy Crewson starring as Arbour.<\/p>\n That same year she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. The appointment took effect on Sept. 15, 1999, and she remained in the court until 2004, when it was announced she would accept an appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.<\/p>\n What was Arbour\u2019s time like at the UN?<\/p>\n She resigned the position in 2008 at the end of her first term. At that time, Conservative MP and Treasury Board President Vic Toews called her \u201ca disgrace\u201d<\/a> in the House of Commons, noting that her comments in respect of the state of Israel and the people of Israel \u201care, in fact, a disgrace, and I stand by those words.\u201d<\/p>\n A spokesman for then prime minister Stephen Harper said the government congratulated Arbour on her career but added that it \u201chasn\u2019t always agreed with the positions she has taken.\u201d<\/p>\n Arbour had made statements in 2006 during the Israel-Lebanon conflict that \u201cthose in positions of command and control\u201d might be subject to \u201cpersonal criminal responsibility.\u201d She was heckled during a visit to the Israeli town of Sderot later than year.<\/p>\n Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada\u2019s next Governor General Louise Arbour during a media availability announcing her appointment at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa on May 5, 2026.<\/p>\n What are some of her later appointments?<\/p>\n In 2017, Arbour was appointed by\u00a0UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to be his Special Representative for International Migration. The following year, she referred to anti-migration sentiment in Western countries as \u201ccompletely self-defeating.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n In 2021, Arbour was appointed to lead an independent review of the Canadian military\u2019s handling of sexual assault, harassment and other misconduct. The following May she delivered her report<\/a> to Minister of National Defence\u00a0Anita Anand.<\/p>\n Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. 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