Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra

Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra (born  February 15, 1949 in Koulikoro ) is a lawyer from Mali . She was as from 2001 to 2003 ad litem judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia worked and belonged from 2003 to 2014 as a judge to the International Criminal Court at. From 2009 to 2012, she was the first of two vice presidents of the court.

Life

Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra was born in Koulikoro in 1949 and studied at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar from 1970/1971 , from 1971 to 1974 at the École Nationale d'Administration in Bamako and from 1975 to 1977 at the École nationale de la magistrature in Paris , the French college for the training of judges . From 1977 to 1980 she worked as an examining magistrate at a court of first instance in Bamako, before she worked there in 1980/1981 as a public prosecutor and in 1981/1982 as vice-president of the labor court.

From 1982 to 1986 she was an examining magistrate at a court of first instance in her hometown of Koulikoro. She then served as Legal Secretary of the National Assembly from 1986 to 1991 and as General Director of the Mali Copyright Agency from 1991 to 1993. In addition, she taught from 1986 to 1991 as a professor of constitutional , civil and criminal law at the École Centrale pour l'Industrie, le Commerce et l'Administration in Bamako. She then switched back to court service and worked as a judge at an appeals court from 1994 and from 1996 to 1999 as president of the criminal division of the court of appeal in Bamako. From 1999 to 2001 she headed the Mali judicial administration.

In June 2001 she was elected ad litem judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia , in which she participated in proceedings from September of the same year. In February 2003 she was nominated by the government of her home country and elected judge at the newly established International Criminal Court in The Hague . They were elected via the proposal list A for candidates with proven competence in the field of criminal law and criminal procedure law for a term of office of nine years. She is assigned to the litigation department at the court and was first vice-president from 2009 to 2012 alongside Hans-Peter Kaul from Germany , who was second vice-president during this time. Her term of office ended in 2012, but she remained in court until 2014 to bring the proceedings in which she was involved to an end.

Her work focuses on human rights and, in particular, women's and children's rights .

Awards

Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra received the Officer's Cross of the Ordre National du Mali in 2001 .

literature

• Diarra, Fatoumata Dembélé (Mali). In: Election of the Judges of the International Criminal Court. Addendum: Alphabetical List of Candidates (with Statements of Qualifications). Document no. ICC-ASP / 1/4 / Add.1. Edited by the Assembly of the Parties to the International Criminal Court, 2002, pp. 53–60

Web links

• International Criminal Court: Judge Fatoumata Dembele DIARRA (Mali) (English, with picture)