Pearl Eliadis
Pearl Eliadis is an international human rights lawyer in private practice. A McGill and Oxford graduate, she is a member of the law societies of Quebec and Ontario, the Québec Bar Association's Human Rights Committee and the Executive of the Canadian Bar Association's Constitutional and Administrative Law Section (Quebec). Pearl has worked in Rwanda, Timor Leste, Ethiopia, and a number of other countries for clients including the UN, the European Commission, NGOs and international consortia.
The recipient of the Canada 125 Medal, the 2006 Women of Distinction Award (Y des Femmes, Montreal), and the 2009 Woman of the Year Award (Montreal Council of Women), Pearl Eliadis has published several books and articles on human rights law, constitutional law and women's rights. She is on the Editorial Board of the Federated Press journal Charter and Human Rights Litigation.
She has been a Board member of the Shield since 2002.