Prof. Ní Aoláin’s Leading Human Rights Work Profiled in Star Tribune  

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin’s career work fighting for human rights law was profiled in the Star Tribune. Highlighting her recent appointment to the United Nations as its Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism, the article traces her path from a childhood during the Northern Ireland Conflict to co-founding and co-directing the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University in Northern Ireland and teaching at the Law School. Ní Aoláin also briefly draws out her philosophical discoveries: “When we make human rights gains, people will push back,” said Ní Aoláin of her lifelong—but worthwhile—battle for human rights. “You’re part of something bigger.”