Sonia Picado
/Overview
Sonia Picado Sotela born San Jose, Costa Rica December 20, 1936. Chair of UN Commission on Timor, 1999; co-founder Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 1979; judge in Aloeboetoe decision on indigenous rights, 1993; recipient UN Human Rights award, 1993.
Quotations
"Poverty is the main violation to human rights." (Strasbourg speech, Pasqualucci 797; photo Univ. Miami)