Chile Eboe-Osuji

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Chile Eboe-Osuji (born September 2, 1962 in Anara , Imo , Nigeria ) is a judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague . He was elected on December 16, 2011 and sworn in on March 9, 2012. He was legal advisor to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He has been President of the International Criminal Court since March 11, 2018.

education

He received his Bachelor of Law from the University of Calabar , Nigeria, his Master of Law from McGill University , Montreal , Quebec , Canada and his Doctor of Law from the Universiteit van Amsterdam , Netherlands.

Career

Eboe-Osuji was admitted to the bar in Nigeria in 1986 and worked there briefly. After receiving his Masters in Law from McGill University in 1991, he practiced law in Canada and was admitted to the Ontario and British Columbia bar in 1993.

From 1997 to 2005 Eboe-Osuji worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda as prosecutor and senior judicial officer for the judges of the tribunal. From 2005 to 2007 he practiced as a lawyer and law lecturer in Canada. In 2007/08 he worked for the Special Court for Sierra Leone as a senior partner for appeals proceedings in criminal matters and returned to the ICTR from 2008 to 2010 as head of the chambers. In 2010 he became the legal advisor to UNHCHR under Navi Pillay , and received an additional appointment as principal partner in criminal appeals to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, in the case of Charles Taylor , former President of Liberia. He has authored two books and numerous legal journal articles on international law.

Judge at the International Criminal Court, 2011-present

On December 16, 2011, Eboe-Osuji was elected Judge of the International Criminal Court. He was elected to office on the fifteenth ballot of the Assembly of States Parties. He took office on March 11, 2012.

As of September 2013, Eboe-Osuji initiated - alongside the judges Olga Venecia Herrera Carbuccia and Robert Fremr - the trial of the deputy president of Kenya William Ruto . Ruto was accused of having replaced a wave of homicides for political reasons after the controversial elections in 2007. From the outset, the judge warned the Kenyan media and bloggers that anyone who reveals the identity of a protected witness in the Ruto trial would be guilty of disregard for the court. ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda had previously complained that some witnesses in Kenya were being intimidated, some of whom were no longer willing to testify as a result.

At Eboe-Osuji's own request, the ICC Presidency decided to reconstitute Trial Chamber V (b) in the trial against Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta and to replace him with Judge Geoffrey Henderson in early 2014 . However, Eboe-Osuji remained the chairman of Trial Chamber V (a), which continued to deal with the case against Ruto and the former Kass-FM broadcaster Joshua Sang. In April 2014, his chamber published subpoenas on behalf of several prosecution witnesses who were no longer willing to testify on the case. Shortly thereafter, Eboe-Osuji reprimanded the Kenyan government for using the principle of sovereignty to intimidate judges at every opportunity.

At the. On March 11, 2018, he was elected President of the International Criminal Court to succeed Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi .

Private

Eboe-Osuji is a member of the International Gender Champions network , which advocates gender equality in international organizations.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Faith Karimi and Laura Smith-Spark: William Ruto, Kenya's deputy leader, on trial for alleged crimes against humanity CNN, September 10, 2013.
  2. ↑ Thomas Escritt: Witness in Kenyan deputy president trial recalls church burning Reuters, September 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ Kenya's William Ruto trial: ICC judge warns bloggers BBC News. 18th September 2013.
  4. ↑ Olive Burrows: Eboe-Osuji replaced in Uhuru ICC case 98.4 Capital FM, January 30, 2014.
  5. ↑ Olive Burrows: Kenya: ICC Wants Kenya to Force Witnesses to Testify Against Ruto 98.4 Capital FM, April 17, 2014.
  6. ^ Walter Menya: ICC judge takes on Kenya over sovereignty In: Daily Nation. May 31, 2014.
  7. ↑ Eric Oteng: Nigerian judge, Chile Eboe-Osuji elected new president of ICC , accessed on May 24, 2018.
  8. ↑ https://genderchampions.com/champions/chile-eboe-osuji accessed on December 26, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Eboe-Osuji, Chile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian lawyer, judge at the International Criminal Court
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Anara , Imo, Nigeria