Open this photo in gallery: Professor Irwin Cotler, an international human rights lawyer and former Justice Minister of Canada, holding his casebook for a portrait in his home on Sept. 3, 2020.Andrej Ivanov/The Globe and Mail Former Canadian attorney-general Irwin Cotler says he was only five or six years old when his father told him his mission in life would be the pursuit of justice. Forty-odd years later, Mr. Cotler would help free Nelson Mandela from prison. Now, at 83, Mr. Cotler has been named the recipient of the 2023 Lantos Human Rights Prize, an honour previously bestowed on the...