found: Human Rights Defenders blog, In memoriam Louis Joinet: a great human rights defender who deserves more recognition outside France, September 25, 2019, viewed October 20, 2021(Louis Joinet, born 26 May 1934 in Nevers, died 22 September 2019; French magistrate, independent expert to the United Nations Human Rights Committee; active in the NGO human rights world, in particular with regard to dictatorships in Latin America; he co-founded the Union of the Judiciary (Syndicat de la magistrature) in 1968; early in his career he was interested in the impact of computer science technologies on the law, represented France in the Council of Europe, and wrote a report that give birth to the Data Protection Act; in the UN context he was author in 1997 of the principles against impunity of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, also known as the "Joinet Principles", which are part of the principles of transitional justice; published his memoirs, Mes raisons d'État, in 2013)
