Florence Mumba

Last updated

Florence Mumba
Judge of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Personal details
Born1948 (age 7576)
Mazabuka
NationalityZambian
Alma mater University of Zambia
(Bachelor of Laws)

Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba (born in Mazabuka, Zambia in 1948), commonly referred to as Florence Mumba, is a Zambian judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, also known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal or the Cambodia Tribunal. [1] She has also previously served in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and as well as a Supreme Court Judge in Zambia. [2] [3]

Contents

Background and education

She was born in Mazabuka District, in the Southern Province of Zambia, in 1948. She graduated from the University of Zambia, School of Law, in 1972, with a Bachelor of Laws. [4]

Work history in Zambia

In 1973 she went into private practice in Zambia, serving in that capacity until 1980. In October of that year, she was appointed as a High Court Judge in Zambia, being the first woman to serve in that capacity. She represented Zambia at the Conference on Women in 1985 and at the African Regional Conference on Women in 1994. She was appointed to ombudsman in 1989, [5] which she remained, until she was appointed to the Supreme Court in Zambia in 1997. [4] [5]

Work history at the United Nations

In 1992, as a member of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, she participated in drafting a resolution to the UN General Assembly, to have rape included as a war crime in the jurisdiction of war crimes tribunals. She served as a member of the International Ombudsman Institute Board from 1992 to 1996. From 1994 until 1996, she served as vice-president of that board. From 1994 until 2003, she served as Commissioner on the International Commission of Jurists. [3] [4]

In 1997, she was elected Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), serving as Vice President of The ICTY from 1999 to 2001. From 2003 to 2005, she served on the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTY/ICTR). In 2009, she was appointed to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, first as a Reserve Judge, [6] and later as a full-time judge of Supreme Court Chamber of ECCC. [3] [4]

In November 2020, a panel of international lawyers chaired by Mumba and Philippe Sands drafted a proposed international law crimilalising ecocide, the destruction of ecosystems. [7]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia</span> 1993–2017 Netherlands-based United Nations ad hoc court

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal was an ad hoc court located in The Hague, Netherlands.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca</span>

Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca is an Argentine Judge of the Supreme Court of city of Buenos Aires and a Judge of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal in New York City. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 16, 1948.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ieng Thirith</span> Khmer rouge cadre

Ieng Thirith was an influential intellectual and politician in the Khmer Rouge, although she was neither a member of the Khmer Rouge Standing Committee nor of the Central Committee. Ieng Thirith was the wife of Ieng Sary, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Democratic Kampuchea's Khmer Rouge regime. She served as Minister of Social Affairs from October 1975 until the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Cayley</span>

Andrew Thomas Cayley,, is a King's Counsel and was His Majesty's Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service from 2021 until February 2024. He was appointed by the Attorney General of England and Wales, Suella Braverman MP, KC on 19 January 2021. He is now a Principal Trial Lawyer at the ICC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Khmer Rouge Tribunal</span> Cambodian–UN court established in 1997 to try Khmer Rouge leaders

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, commonly known as the Cambodia Tribunal or Khmer Rouge Tribunal (សាលាក្ដីខ្មែរក្រហម), was a court established to try the senior leaders and the most responsible members of the Khmer Rouge for alleged violations of international law and serious crimes perpetrated during the Cambodian genocide. Although it was a national court, it was established as part of an agreement between the Royal Government of Cambodia and the United Nations, and its members included both local and foreign judges. It was considered a hybrid court, as the ECCC was created by the government in conjunction with the UN, but remained independent of them, with trials being held in Cambodia using Cambodian and international staff. The Cambodian court invited international participation in order to apply international standards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hassan Bubacar Jallow</span> Gambian politician and lawyer

Hassan Bubacar Jallow is a Gambian judge who has served as Chief Justice of the Gambia since February 2017. He was the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 2003 to 2016, and Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) from 2012 to 2016, both at the rank of United Nations Under Secretary-General. He served as Minister of Justice and Attorney General from 1984 to 1994 under President Dawda Jawara.

Gabrielle Anne Kirk McDonald is an American lawyer and jurist who, until her retirement in October 2013, served as an American arbitrator on the Iran–United States Claims Tribunal seated in The Hague.

Anees Ahmed is an Indian lawyer. He served as the Chief of Judicial and Legal Affairs, and formerly the Head of Chambers, of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">United Nations Security Council Resolution 1104</span> United Nations resolution adopted in 1997

United Nations Security Council resolution 1104, adopted unanimously on 8 April 1997, after recalling 808 (1993) and 827 (1993) and considering the nominations for Judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia received by the Secretary-General Kofi Annan by 13 March 1997, the council established a list of candidates in accordance with Article 13 of the Statute of the International Tribunal to be forwarded to the General Assembly.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">United Nations Security Council Resolution 1329</span> United Nations resolution adopted in 2000

United Nations Security Council resolution 1329, adopted unanimously on 30 November 2000, after recalling resolutions 827 (1993) and 955 (1994), the Council enlarged the appeals chambers at both the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), proposed the election of two additional judges at the ICTR and established a pool of ad litem judges at the ICTY.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals</span> International criminal court

The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) or the MICT in Kinyarwanda, also known simply as the Mechanism, is an international court established by the United Nations Security Council in 2010 to perform the remaining functions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) following the completion of those tribunals' respective mandates. It is based in both Arusha, Tanzania and The Hague, Netherlands.

James Kirkpatrick Stewart is a Canadian lawyer with over thirty years of experience as Crown counsel handling criminal trials and appeals for the prosecution, including more than eight years working with the United Nations in international criminal law prosecutions as a trial and appellate counsel and legal manager. Stewart was nominated by Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, as one of three candidates for election to the post of ICC Deputy Prosecutor (Prosecution). He was duly elected by the Assembly of States Parties on 16 November 2012 for a period of nine years. Mr Stewart was sworn in on 8 March 2013 and as Deputy Prosecutor of the ICC, he will report directly to the Prosecutor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Irene Mambilima</span> 7th Chief Justice of Zambia (1952–2021)

Irene Chirwa Mambilima was the Chief Justice of Zambia from 2015 until her death in 2021. She also served as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Zambia and presided over the 2006 and 2011 general elections and the January 2015 presidential by-election. She was part of several election observer missions including in Liberia, Kenya, Mozambique, and Seychelles. Her other international assignments included serving as Sessional Judge of the Supreme Court of The Gambia in 2003. Mambilima sat on the International Board of the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) as a Director of the Africa Region. She was also a member of several professional associations including the Zambia Association of Women Judges, the Editorial Board Council of Law Reporting, the Child Fund (Zambia), Women in Law Southern Africa, and the Council of the Institution of Advanced Legal Education.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gabrielle Louise McIntyre</span> Australian lawyer

Gabrielle Louise McIntyre (Australian) is an international legal practitioner, jurist, and served as the Chairperson of the Seychelles' Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission.

Chung Chang-ho is a South Korean judge who has been serving judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), serving since 2015. He is the second South Korean to serve in the chambers of the Court, following former president Song Sang-hyun.

Elizabeth Nkombo Chona Muyovwe, commonly known as Elizabeth Muyovwe, was a Zambian Supreme Court Justice.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Supreme Court of Cambodia</span> Highest court of Cambodia

The Supreme Court of Cambodia is the highest Court in the judiciary of Cambodia, under the supervision of the Supreme Council of the Magistrature. It is located in the royal capital of Phnom Penh, and is regulated under Article 55 to Article 73 of the 2014 Cambodian Law on Court Organization.

Prisca Matimba Nyambe, SC is a Zambian judge who also sits on international tribunals. She is known for dissenting from the majority decisions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) judgements which convicted Ratko Mladić and Zdravko Tolimir of war crimes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Asoka De Zoysa Gunawardana</span> Sri Lankan judge

Asoka De Zoysa Gunawardana was a Sri Lankan judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 1999 to 2004. He was also a judge of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) from 2001 to 2004.

Maureen Harding Clark is an Irish judge who served as a Judge of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia since June 2019, a Judge of the High Court from 2006 to 2014, a Judge at the International Criminal Court from 2003 to 2006, and a Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia from 2001 to 2003.

References

  1. "The Definition of 'Ecocide'". JD Supra. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  2. ECCC (3 February 2012). "Judge Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba". Phnom Penh: Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Archived from the original on 15 January 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 UNAKRT (7 November 2017). "UNAKRT Officials". Phnom Penh: United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT). Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 SáCouto, Susana (25 May 2016). "Brandeis University: Ad Hoc Tribunals Oral History Project: Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba". Waltham: Brandeis University. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Judge Florence Mumba Sworn in as a member of the Appeals Chamber of the ICTR". The Hague. 19 November 2003. Archived from the original on 24 December 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  6. Lusaka Times Reporter (5 May 2009). "Judge Florence Mumba clinches Cambodian job". Lusaka Times Quoting ZANIS. Lusaka. Archived from the original on 28 June 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  7. "International lawyers draft plan to criminalise ecosystem destruction". The Guardian . 30 November 2020. Archived from the original on 20 April 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2020.