In June 2025,She was among the judges of the International Criminal Court who were sanctioned by the Trump administration.
Early life and education
Solome Bossa was born on 14 April 1956 in Nsambya Hospital,in Uganda's capital city of Kampala.[4] Her father,Stanley Walusimbi Ssesanga,was a lawyer and her mother was a housewife.[5][6]
Bossa has been a human rights activist since 1980 and founded non-profit organisation including the East African Centre for Constitutional Development,the Uganda Network on HIV,AIDS,Ethics and the Law and the Uganda Law Society.[9][4]
Career
Bossa was a lecturer at the Law Development Centre of Uganda from 1981 until 1997.[9] She was a legal practitioner from 1988 until 1997,representing indigent women and expanding legal aid,including serving as president of the Uganda Law Society.[10]
She served as Judge at the Uganda High Court from 1997 until 2013. Bossa was a member of the East African Court of Justice for five years,from 2001 until 2006. She was a member of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR) from 2003 until 2013.[7][8][6][9] Bossa was a judge on the East African Court of Justice from 2001 until 2006 and on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2003 until 2013.[9] She was appointed to the Ugandan Constitutional Court in 2013.[6] In 2014,Bossa was elected Judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’Rights,for a six-year term.[11]
In 2014,Bossa was one of the judges who annulled Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act for not being passed with the required quorum.[12] She received death threats on social media.[13]
Bossa, Solomy Balungi (2006). "Towards a protocol extending the jurisdiction of the East African Court of Justice". East African Journal of Human Rights & Democracy. 4: 31.
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