The International Criminal Court is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague,Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide,crimes against humanity,war crimes and the crime of aggression. The ICC is distinct from the International Court of Justice,an organ of the United Nations that hears disputes between states.
Navanethem "Navi" Pillay is a South African jurist who served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. A South African of Indian Tamil origin,Pillay was the first non-white woman judge of the High Court of South Africa. She has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Her four-year term as High Commissioner for Human Rights began on 1 September 2008 and was extended an additional two years in 2012. In September 2014 Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad succeeded her in her position as High Commissioner for Human Rights. In April 2015,Pillay became the 16th Commissioner of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty. She is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.
Christine,Baroness Van den Wyngaert is a Belgian jurist and judge. She served as international and comparative criminal law expert from 2009 to 2018 as a judge on the International Criminal Court. She served in the Trial Division Chamber. On 8 July 2013,Van den Wyngaert was ennobled by King Albert II of Belgium as a baroness for her services as a judge. From 2003 to 2005 she was a Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,and from 2000 to 2002 an ad hoc judge on the International Court of Justice.
Sylvia Helena de Figueiredo Steiner is a Brazilian judge who was a member of the International Criminal Court from 2003 to 2016.
Anita Ušacka is a Latvian and international judge and legal academic. She has been a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia and of the Trial and Appeals Divisions of the International Criminal Court (ICC). She was President of the Appeals Division of the International Criminal Court in 2011/2012. She retired in 2015.
Sanji Mmasenono Monageng was a judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2009 to 2018.
The International Criminal Court investigation in Kenya or the situation in the Republic of Kenya was an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the responsibility for the 2007–2008 post-election violence in Kenya. The 2007–2008 crisis followed the presidential election that was held on 27 December 2007. The Electoral Commission of Kenya officially declared that the incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was re-elected however supporters of the opposition candidate Raila Odinga accused the government of electoral fraud and rejected the results. A series of protests and demonstrations followed,and fighting—mainly along tribal lines—led to an estimated 1,200 deaths and more than 500,000 people becoming internally displaced.
Cuno Jakob Tarfusser is an Italian judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Ekaterina Trendafilova is a Bulgarian lawyer and judge with international and domestic experience. She is currently serving as the first President of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers –a position to which she was appointed in December 2016 for a four-year term and took her office on 12 January 2017.
Ajonye Perpetua Paya is a South Sudanese constitutional lawyer,judge and human rights activist. Until 2013 she was a first class justice in the South Sudan judiciary. She assisted in drafting the 2005 interim constitution of Sudan. She served in the cabinet of Central Equatoria State in 2011,then in the cabinet of President Salva Kiir Mayardit,who dismissed her in May 2013. Since then she has held leadership positions in the South Sudan Law Society and has often spoken on civil rights issues including women's rights and gender-based violence. In 2023 she headed the Secretariat of the Judicial Reform Committee (JRC) of South Sudan.
Silvia Alejandra Fernández de Gurmendi is an Argentine lawyer,diplomat and judge. She has been a judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 20 January 2010 and was the first woman President of the ICC from March 2015 to March 2018. She was elected to the presidency for a three-year term and served until March 2018. In 2020 she was elected to serve as President of the Assembly of States Parties to Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court for the twentieth to twenty-second sessions (2021-2023).
Chile Eboe-Osuji is an International Jurist at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law and a Special Advisor to the President's Office at Toronto Metropolitan University. In his role at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law,Eboe-Osuji is leading discussions on the international human rights regime,the international humanitarian law regime,the role of international courts/tribunals,and the rule of law. He will also play a key role in advancing Lincoln Alexander Law's international profile through teaching initiatives,programmatic collaborations,and public discourse. Prior to joining the law school,Eboe-Osuji served as the President of the International Criminal Court (ICC),The Hague from March 2018 to March 2021. The Nigerian-born Eboe-Osuji was also concurrently serving as a senior judge in the Appeals Division of the ICC during this time. Prior to his work with the International Criminal Court,he was the Legal Advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. He also served at various times as a senior prosecutor at both the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
Kuniko Ozaki,is a Japanese lawyer who served as judge of the International Criminal Court and the Presiding Judge of Trial Chamber V,constituted to try the cases against four Kenyan nationals. Specially-appointed professor of International Human Right Law at Chuo University Faculty of Law (2021-).
Lombe Phyllis Chibesakunda is a Zambian lawyer and diplomat. She has been the chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Zambia,Solicitor General,Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Legal Affairs,acting Chief Justice of Zambia,and has served as an Ambassador to Japan,the United Kingdom,the Vatican,and the Netherlands. Chibesakunda is the first woman president of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Court of Justice in Khartoum,Sudan.
Effie Owuor is a Kenyan lawyer and judge who was the country's first female State Counsel,Magistrate,High Court Judge,and Court of Appeal Judge.
Butere Girls High School is a girls only public boarding secondary school in Butere,Kenya.
Martha Karambu Koome is a Kenyan advocate who is currently serving as the Chief Justice of Kenya,and is the first woman to occupy the post.
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.
Paul Gicheru Njoroge was a Kenyan lawyer and qualified advocate of the High Court of Kenya who was accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of bribing and intimidating witnesses in a case against the now Kenyan President William Ruto,and journalist Joshua Sang that was dismissed in 2016. He faced charges of bribery and corruptly inducing witnesses to interfere with justice. He died while awaiting a decision in the case.
The Judicial Reform Committee of South Sudan (JRC) was launched by the Government of South Sudan on 28 July 2022 to review laws,and to advise on judicial reforms and restructuring of the judiciary.
