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「薩克思說，婦女問題在南非是大問題；這一次他在台灣參加的一些活動全是男性，女人做很多組織，規畫工作，但在正式活動場合只有男人，他覺得，台灣的女性那麼的堅強獨立活躍，但在正式檯面就看不到她們，「I actually feel uncomfortable， I am not used to it.」（我感到不舒服，我不太習慣這樣的事），以南非為例，這是不可能發生的，有訪客來，女人負責接待，但在晚餐或正式接待會卻全是男性，這種事不可能在南非發生」 王健壯專欄：到邊界還有一段遙遠長路
王健壯 2014年06月21日 15:57
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唐獎基金會今（21）日公布首屆唐獎「法治獎」得主，由現年79歲、草擬南非人權憲章的南非憲法法院前大法官奧比‧薩克思（Albert Louis （Albie） Sachs）獲獎。
薩克思身兼律師、學者及新憲法起草者等身分，為終止南非種族隔離政策做出偌大貢獻。他主張所有人的尊嚴都應該獲得尊重，不因身分高低而有所不同，畢生致力為南非建立法治與平等的社會，因此得罪當權者，其座車曾被政府特務安置炸藥，雖然最後得以倖存，卻也失去了一條手臂與一隻眼睛。
奧比‧薩克思曾於去年來台訪問，台灣並翻譯其著作《斷臂上的花朵》，是兼具理性與感性的大法官心路歷程。
唐獎官方表示，「肯定他出於尊重人性尊嚴與擁抱各群體之價值，提昇世人對法治之理解，對人權與正義所作的貢獻，特別是他身為行動家、律師、學者、及新憲法之草擬者，對自由民主南非法治之實現，所作的努力。」此為薩克思的得獎理由。
Albie Sachs
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| Albert Louis Sachs | |
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| Justice Albie Sachs in South Africa's Constitutional Court | |
| Judge of the Constitutional Court | |
| In office 1994 – October 2009 | |
| Appointed by | Nelson Mandela |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 January 1935 |
| Nationality | South African |
| Alma mater | |
Albert "Albie" Louis Sachs (born 30 January 1935)[1] was a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was appointed to the court by Nelson Mandela in 1994 and retired in October 2009. Justice Sachs gained international attention in 2005 as the author of the Court's holding in the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie, in which the Court overthrew South Africa's statute defining marriage to be between one man and one woman as a violation of the Constitution's general mandate for equal protection for all and its specific mandate against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
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[hide]Early life[edit]
Sachs was born into a South African Jewish family of Lithuanian background. He attended the South African College School (SACS) in Cape Town. His career in human rights activism started at the age of seventeen, when as a second year law student at the University of Cape Town, he took part in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign.[2] Three years later, in 1955, he attended the Congress of the People at Kliptown where theFreedom Charter was adopted.
He started practice as an advocate at the Cape Town Bar aged twenty one, where he defended people charged under racial statutes and security laws under South African Apartheid. Sachs has a law degree from the University of Cape Town and a PhD from Sussex University.
Imprisonment and exile[edit]
After being arrested and placed in solitary confinement for over five months, for his work in the freedom movement, Albie Sachs went into exile in England, and later Mozambique. He was represented in court by his advocate Wilfrid Cooper. In 1988, in Maputo, Mozambique, he lost an arm and his sight in one eye[3] when a bomb was placed in his car. After the bombing, he devoted himself to the preparations for a new democratic constitution for South Africa. He returned to South Africa and served as a member of the Constitutional Committee and the National Executive of the African National Congress.
Awards and writings[edit]
In 1991 he won the Alan Paton Award for his book Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter. The book chronicles his response to the 1988 car bombing. A revised, updated and expanded edition was released in October 2011.[4] He is also the author of Justice in South Africa (1974), The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (1966), Sexism and the Law (1979), and The Free Diary of Albie Sachs (2004). His most recent book, The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law (2009), also won the Alan Paton Award, making him the second person to have won it twice.[5] The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs was dramatized for the Royal Shakespeare Company by David Edgar, as well as for television and broadcast by the BBC in the late 1970s.[6]
He helped select the art collection at Constitution Hill, the seat of the Constitutional Court.
In 2006 his alma mater the University of Cape Town awarded him an honorary Doctorate in Law.[7][8] On 8 July 2008 Sachs was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree by the University of Ulster in recognition of his contribution to human rights and justice globally.[9]
In 2009 Sachs received the Reconciliation Award as well as the Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award.
On 16 July 2010 Sachs was further awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of the University of York for his contribution to the construction of post-apartheid South Africa, in particular for his involvement in the creation of the Constitution.[10]
In all, Sachs has 14 honorary degrees across four continents.[11]
Radio[edit]
- On idealism, passion and reason in South Africa Albie Sachs Speaks on BBC The Forum
On the 20 June 2012 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Dundee.
Other Roles[edit]
He has also served as a member of the Kenya Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board.[12]
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