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Payam Akhavan

HARDtalk: Payam Akhavan

12/08/2013 GMT

BBC World News - HARDtalk, Payam Akhavan

Allan Little speaks to leading international human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan .

International human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan believes it is the global community's duty to challenge human rights abuses wherever they occur. But is true justice truly possible?

Genocide is often called the ultimate crime and after every tragedy, the world says 'it must never happen again'. And yet it does. HARDtalk speaks to leading international human rights lawyer Payam Akhavan, who made his name trying to bring to justice those responsible for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. He believes that the international community has a duty to challenge human rights abuses wherever they occur. But is true justice ever really possible - or is it compromised by the political constraints and realities of the day?

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