Yussuf Naim Kly
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| Born | George Washington 26 October 1936 Columbia, South Carolina, United States |
| Died | 6 January 2011 Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada |
| Citizenship | United States, Canada |
| Alma mater | McGill University School of Islamic Studies; Université Laval |
| Occupation | Academic, human rights activist, international law scholar |
| Years active | 1960s–2011 |
| Known for | Co-founder and Chair of the International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (IHRAAM) |
| Title | Professor Emeritus of International Law |
| Movement | African-American civil rights movement; minority rights advocacy |
Yussuf Naim Kly (Columbia, South Carolina, United States of America, 26 October 1936 - Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, 6 January 2011.[1]) is best remembered as a co-founder and chair of the International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (IHRAAM)[2]
Biography
Born on 26 October 1936 in Columbia, South Carolina, Yussuf Naim Kly's birth name was George Washington. He came from the proud Gullah people (also known as Gullah Geeche)[3], who are an African American ethnic group primarily residing in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, and Georgia[4]. George never took kindly to his inherited slave surname of "Washington" nor the name "George" and took measures to remove it by adopting a Muslim name of his choice -- Yussuf Naim Kly. Kly also had a sister, an accomplished African American poet. Yussuf completed his elementary, high school, and college education in the United States. In 1966, Kly emigrated to Canada[5] to pursue higher education (universities in Montreal and Quebec) and serve as chairman of the Canadian branch of the Organization for African American Unity (O.A.A.U.) in Quebec[6]. In Montreal, he worked for the John Howard Society of Quebec, attended McGill's School of Islamic Studies, and the University of Laval. He joined Dr. Clarence Bayne (1932-2024)[7][8], founder and executive director of the Montreal- based Research Institute of the National Black Coalitiion of Canada (1971), and befriended many Montreal ethnic activists, among them Michael M. Petrovich, Ronald Lee, and others. In 1974, he returned to the U.S., where he taught at the private African American Howard University in Washington, D.C..
Later, he returned to Canada as an associate professor of international law at the University of Regina, and years later, retired from the same university as a professor emeritus specializing in international minority rights[9]
IHRAAM
The International Human Rights Association of American Minorities (IHRAAM)[10] was founded in 1985 at The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands by three African American Ph.D. students Yvonne King, Charles Knox, and Yussuf Naim Kly. Dr. Kly and IHRAAM brought the Rodney King case to world attention and justice[11]. Through the international court, IHRAAM played a pivotal role in bringing the U.S. federal government to prosecute a separate civil rights trial against the four officers for police brutality [12][13]
Dr. Kly received a diploma in international law from the International Bar Association (IBA) in conjunction with the College of Law of London and Wales[14]. Before retiring in Kelowna, he was a professor emeritus at the University of Regina. In 2000 and 2004, he attended UN-sponsored conferences in Geneva[15][16] and met with Hans Köchler[17], Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, Majid Tramboo[18], and other civil rights activists from around the globe.
He was married to Diana Collier Kly[19], one of the current directors of the International Human Rights Association for American Minorities (IHRAAM).
Yussuf Naim Kly died in Kelowna, British Columbia on 6 January 2011 from congestive heart failure. He was 74[20]
Works
- The Invisible War: The African American Anti-Slavery Resistance from the Stono Rebellion through the Seminole Wars[21]
- The Black Book (1990)[22]
- Anti-Social Contract (1990)[23]
- A Popular Guide to Minority Rights (1995)[24]
- In Pursuit of an International Civil Tribunal on the Right to Self-Determination (2006)[25]
- The Regina Seminar on the Elimination of Weapons of Mass Destruction (2007)[26]
- The U.S. Human Rights Foreign Policy, the Black Minority in the US, and International Law (1978)[27]
- International Law and the Black Minority in the U.S. (1985)[28]
- Revolution: Tragic Necessity (1984)[29]
- International Law and the Dalits in India[30]
References
- ↑ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/G797-LQM/dr-yussuf-naim-kly-1936-2011
- ↑ https://books.google.ca/books?id=1HR5EQAAQBAJ&pg=PA182&dq=%22Yussuf+Naim+Kly%22+-wikipedia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4jL-OzMGRAxWihIkEHSZ7ImsQ6AF6BAgKEAE#v=onepage&q=%22Yussuf%20Naim%20Kly%22%20-wikipedia&f=false
- ↑ https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=VTUEEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1706&dq=%22Yussuf+Naim+Kly%22&ots=pSWtySdVhm&sig=48NxbzqB0SQr-QbgX367-wDZ7fA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ↑ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/G797-LQM/dr-yussuf-naim-kly-1936-2011
- ↑ https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/113628/phebert_1.pdf?sequence=1page 139,
- ↑ https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/113628/phebert_1.pdf?sequence=1page 139
- ↑ "Clarence Bayne (1932–2024): 'It is by our actions that we define ourselves and by our inaction that we allow others to define us' - News - Concordia University".
- ↑ "Clarence Bayne (1932–2024): 'It is by our actions that we define ourselves and by our inaction that we allow others to define us' - Concordia University".
- ↑ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/G797-LQM/dr-yussuf-naim-kly-1936-2011
- ↑ "About IHRAAM – IHRAAM".
- ↑ Reparations, the Cure for America's Race Problem: A Collaborative Effort in Reparations Advocacy by the Founding Members of C.U.R.E. U.B. & U.S. Communication Systems. 1994. ISBN 978-1-56411-088-6.
- ↑ Dudley, William (1991). Police Brutality. Greenhaven Press. ISBN 978-0-89908-580-7.
- ↑ Reparations, the Cure for America's Race Problem: A Collaborative Effort in Reparations Advocacy by the Founding Members of C.U.R.E. U.B. & U.S. Communication Systems. 1994. ISBN 978-1-56411-088-6.
- ↑ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/G797-LQM/dr-yussuf-naim-kly-1936-2011
- ↑ https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=OVgyFUOFuXMC&oi=fnd&pg=PA179&dq=%22Yussuf+Naim+Kly%22&ots=UdUzNo2GMp&sig=nsyOvwCXxxKrDUtrdUC7BWP3ucQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Yussuf%20Naim%20Kly%22&f=falsepage181
- ↑ https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1970867909877514386
- ↑ https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=OVgyFUOFuXMC&oi=fnd&pg=PA179&dq=%22Yussuf+Naim+Kly%22&ots=UdUzNo1NPx&sig=FWj1i7mmcob2coU95gK_ltyW9wo&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Yussuf%20Naim%20Kly%22&f=falsepage173
- ↑ "A Majid Tramboo – MT UK Solicitors".
- ↑ "Diana Collier Kly – IHRAAM".
- ↑ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/G797-LQM/dr-yussuf-naim-kly-1936-2011
- ↑ https://www.amazon.ca/Dr-Y-N-Kly-ebook/dp/B08LKNY2RZ?ref_=ast_author_dp
- ↑ "Books by Yussuf Naim Kly (Author of the Black Book)".
- ↑ The anti-social contract. Clarity. 1989. ISBN 978-0-932863-09-6.
- ↑ "A Popular Guide to Minority Rights".
- ↑ Kly, Yussuf Naim; Kly, Diana (2006). In Pursuit of an International Civil Tribunal on the Right to Self-determination: Collected Papers & Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Right to Self-Determination, the United Nations, and International Civil Society, Geneva 2004. Clarity Press. ISBN 0932863523.
- ↑ https://www.amazon.in/Regina-Seminar-Elimination-Weapons-Destruction/dp/0932863531
- ↑ "Yussuf Naim Kly".
- ↑ International law and the Black minority in the U.S. /: Y.N. Kly. Clarity. 1985. ISBN 978-0-932863-01-0.
- ↑ "Books by Yussuf Naim Kly (Author of the Black Book)".
- ↑ Kly, Yussuf Naim (1989). "International Law and the Dalits in India".
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