Anand Grover: leading the defence of human rights.

摘要

Prejudices can run deep, and fears instilled in childhood can be hard to shake, as Anand Grover, trailblazing human rights lawyer and UN Special Rapporteur for the right to health, knows only too well. Grover has fought for the rights of marginalised communities all his life. But he remains searingly honest about the judgmental thoughts that have sometimes sprung, unbidden, to his mind. Once, he recounts, he was having dinner with sex workers whose rights he had been championing; when they asked him to dance, he panicked momentarily about "being seen dancing with prostitutes". This is why experiential knowledge is as important as abstract knowledge, for lawyers and doctors alike, he says. "You need to be able to connect with people, body and soul."