Marriage talks
Former South African Constitutional Court judge and author Albie Sachs gave a talk on same-sex marriage last week in Melbourne. Sachs was instrumental in the South African court decision to overturn the exclusive status of marriage as only between a man and a woman.
A respected human rights champion, Sachs developed South Africa鈥檚 Bill of Rights. He lost his sight and and arm in a bomb attack while in exile in Mozambique in 1988 after defending people charged under apartheid laws.
Sachs鈥� new book The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law is out now. The talk was presented by the Human Rights Law Resource Centre.
