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William G. O'Neill is a lawyer specializing in international human rights law. He is a consultant to several groups, including the National Coalition for Haitian Rights. He is the former Deputy Director of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and served as Director of the Legal Department of the OAS/UN International Civilian Mission in Haiti and as Legal Consultant to the UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda. He teaches a course on human rights in peacekeeping operations at the Lester Pearson Peacekeeping Centre and has written extensively on human rights and international relations.

Haiti Held Hostage: International Responses to the Quest for Nationhood 1986-1996, Occasional Paper #23, by Robert Maguire (team leader), Edwige Balutansky, Jacques Fomerand, Larry Minear, William O'Neill, Thomas G. Weiss, and Sarah Zaidi. 1996. [review by Farhan Haq]

Haïti prise en otage: Les Réponses Internationales à la Recherche d'une Identité Nationale de 1986 à 1996. Occasional Paper #23, by Robert Maguire (team leader), Edwige Balutansky, Jacques Fomerand, Larry Minear, William O'Neill, Thomas G. Weiss, and Sarah Zaidi. 1996.

A Humanitarian Practitioner's Guide to International Human Rights Law, Occasional Paper #34, by William G. O'Neill. 1999. [review by Reto Meister]