First Vice President of the International Criminal Court
In office March 11, 2015 – March 10, 2018
Preceded by
Sanji Mmasenono Monageng
Succeeded by
Robert Fremr
Judge of the International Criminal Court
In office March 11, 2009 – 2018
Nominated by
Kenya
Personal details
Alma mater
University of Nairobi Kenya School of Law Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
Joyce Aluoch (born 1947) is a Kenyan lawyer who served as Judge of the International Criminal Court from 2009 until 2018. She is a former judge of the High Court of Kenya. In addition to her career as a judge, she was the First Chairperson of the Committee of African Union Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the Vice-Chairperson of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child from 2003 to 2009.[1] She has also served as the inaugural head of the family division of the Kenyan High Court and a member of the Court of Appeal.[2]
Aluoch has had a pivotal role in negotiations between the African Union and the Government of Sudan to ratify the African charter and secure the rights of children, pursued a fact-finding mission to war-torn northern Uganda on the effects of the war on children, and chaired a task-force aimed at handling sexual offences in Kenya through the implementation of the new Sexual Offences Act, 2006.[1]
^ abOffice of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. "Joyce Aluoch". Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
^The African Executive (February 4, 2009). "Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch: First Kenyan Judge at The Hague". The African Executive. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2013.
JoyceAluoch (born 1947) is a Kenyan lawyer who served as Judge of the International Criminal Court from 2009 until 2018. She is a former judge of the...
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position on the bench was taken by fellow female Kenyan judge JoyceAluoch. Owuor and Aluoch were the first two members of the Kenya Women's Judges Association...
In office 2012–2015 Preceded by Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra Succeeded by JoyceAluoch Judge of the International Criminal Court In office 11 March 2009 – 2018...
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