Mariama Cissé

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Mariama Cissé (* 1962 in Filingué ) is a Nigerien judge who is known for her commitment to women's rights .

Career

Cissé was born in southwestern Niger as the second of eight children to an Arab businessman. She made the conclusion in 1986 Maîtrise en droit at the University of Niamey and closed 1989, a judge training at the national École de la magistrature in Paris from. Cissé worked in Nigerien courts for 14 years: she was deputy public prosecutor and judge, legal advisor at the court of appeal ( cour d'appel ) in Niamey and most recently president of its criminal division. In addition, from 1999 she was a member and later Vice-President of the Nigerien Human Rights Commission. From 2003 Cissé worked at the Representation of the European Union in Niger. Since 2007 she has been secretary of the African Committee of Experts on Children's Rights and Welfare (ACERWC) of the African Union in Addis Ababa .

She is married and has four children.

Commitment to human rights

Together with other lawyers, during the democratization phase in Niger in 1989, Cissé founded the "Association for the Protection of the Rights of Women and Children" and the " Association des Femmes Juristes du Niger " (AFJN) , of which she later became General Secretary. The AFJN set itself the task of educating the female population of Niger, with an illiteracy rate of 90%, about their rights and to encourage them to demand these rights. She was supported in particular by the German Development Service . In particular, she succeeded in getting Niger to sign the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1999 .

Cissé was also a co-founder of the “Nigerien Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Girls” (CONIPRAT), which fought against female genital mutilation . Cissé worked on the 2003 law that made this practice a criminal offense after a multi-year educational campaign.

In 2003 Cissé received the Human Rights Prize of the German Association of Judges for her services .

literature

  • Astrid Hölscher: Judges honor women's rights activist , FR from September 16, 2003.
  • Sandra van Edig: DRB Human Rights Award 2003 for Mariama Cissé , DRiZ 2003, p. 258.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mrs Mariama Mohamed Cissé, Secretary of the ACERWC . ACERWC website, accessed October 2, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Cissé, Mariama
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien judge
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Filingué