and reconciliation commissions, both domestically and internationally. She has ten years of experience working in human rights commissions and other national institutions, including Canada, Rwanda, Timor Leste and Ethiopia. In 2006, she co-authored the UN plan to establish a human rights commission in Iraq and chaired the Liberal Party of Canada's Task Force on Human Rights for the Renewal Commission.
She has managed national institutions, developed strategic plans, and conducted training and evaluations in all aspects of their operations. She has extensive public policy experience and a decade of senior management in the public and not for profit sectors in community engagement, gender equality, disability issues, migration, and sustainable development. She is past President of Equitas, Canada's leading human rights education NGO, and received the Canada 125 Commemorative Medal for community service and the 2006 Women of Distinction Award. Pearl is a member of several legal and professional associations, and has published extensively in human rights, public policy and constitutional law, including Designing Government (2005) and International Human Rights Law: Theory and Practice (1992) with Irwin Cotler. She is bilingual in English and French, and has conversational Greek and basic Spanish.