Joyce Aluoch | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Aluoch in 2017 | |
| 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 11 March 2009 – March 10, 2018 | |
| Nominated by | Kenya |
| Appointed by | Assembly of States Parties |
| 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]
- ^ a b Office 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.