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List Of First Women Lawyers And Judges In Africa
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Africa. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as obtaining a law degree. KEY * FRA = Overseas region of France * GBR = British overseas territory of the United Kingdom *SOM = Self-declared state in Somalia *TZN = Autonomous administrative division of Tanzania Algeria * Blanche Azoulay (1908): First female lawyer in Algeria (upon being called to the Bar of Algiers) * Belmihoub Aziz: First female judge in Algeria (c. 1962) *Nadia Hammadi: First female appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Algeria (c. 1963–1964) *Fatiha Sahraoui and Meriem Belmihoub-Zerdani (1935-2021) (1964): First indigenous female lawyers in Algeria (upon being called to the Bar of Algiers) *Fafa Ben Zarrouki: First female to serve as the President of an Algerian Court (1975) *Ghania Lebied: First female t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area.Sayre, April Pulley (1999), ''Africa'', Twenty-First Century Books. . With billion people as of , it accounts for about of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Despite a wide range of natural resources, Africa is the least wealthy continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, behind Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to different factors including geography, climate, tribalism, colonialism, the Cold War, neocolonialism, lack of democracy, and corruption. Despite this low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion and the large and young population make Afr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène Aholou Keke
Hélène Aholou Keke is a lawyer and politician in Benin. Biography She specialised in family law and was called to the bar for the first time in Paris, France. She was called to the bar of Cotonou in 2008. For more than 20 years she worked as a lawyer for the Beninese government. Keke has served as a member of the National Assembly of Benin in its fifth (2007–11) and sixth (2011–2015) legislatures. She was president of the Assembly's Commission of Laws and Human Rights in December 2012 when the death penalty was abolished. Keke resigned from the governing Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin party in 2015. She raised electoral irregularities with the press and the authorities in February 2016 ahead of the 2016 Beninese presidential election, including the registering of 51 more polling stations than were authorised by law. In May 2016 she was appointed as one of 30 members of the National Commission for Political and Institutional Reform by new, independent President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and the Ivory Coast to the southwest. It has a population of 20,321,378. Previously called Republic of Upper Volta (1958–1984), it was renamed Burkina Faso by President Thomas Sankara. Its citizens are known as ''Burkinabè'' ( ), and its capital and largest city is Ouagadougou. The largest ethnic group in Burkina Faso is the Mossi people, who settled the area in the 11th and 13th centuries. They established powerful kingdoms such as the Ouagadougou, Tenkodogo, and Yatenga. In 1896, it was colonized by the French as part of French West Africa; in 1958, Upper Volta became a self-governing colony within the French Community. In 1960, it gained full independence with Maurice Yaméogo as president. Throughout the decades post in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanji Mmasenono Monageng
Sanji Mmasenono Monageng (born 9 August 1950) has been a judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 2009. Career Monageng is a national of Botswana. She became a judge in Botswana in 1989. In 2003, Monageng was elected as a Commissioner in the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, which is an organ of the African Union. In November 2006, she attended the meeting for The Yogyakarta Principles held in Gadjah Mada University. In 2007 she became the Chairperson of the commission. ICC In 2009, Monageng was elected a judge of the ICC by the court's Assembly of States Parties. Her nine-year non-renewable term expires in 2018. When Monageng was elected to the ICC in 2009, she was assigned to sit in the Pre-Trial Chamber of the Court. Mongaeng remained in the Pre-Trial Chamber until 2012. After serving in the Pre-Trial Chamber, Monageng started working in the Appeals Division in 2012. She was promoted to President of the Appeals Division in 2014. Between 2012 and 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botswana
Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. It is connected to Zambia across the short Zambezi River border by the Kazungula Bridge. A country of slightly over 2.3 million people, Botswana is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. About 11.6 percent of the population lives in the capital and largest city, Gaborone. Formerly one of the world's poorest countries—with a GDP per capita of about US$70 per year in the late 1960s—it has since transformed itself into an upper-middle-income country, with one of the world's fastest-growing economies. Modern-day humans first inhabited the country over 200,000 years ago. The Tswana ethnic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athaliah Molokomme
Athaliah Molokomme was the attorney general of Botswana until 2017 and is the first woman to hold that position. Molokomme has been committed to advocacy for women's rights at conferences, workshops, and seminars around the world. Dr. Athaliah Molokomme was appointed as Permanent Representative of Botswana to the UN in Geneva and Ambassador to Switzerland in May 2018. Early life and education Athaliah Maoka Lesiba Molokomme was born on 4 December 1959 in Francistown, Botswana. She was the second of nine children born to teachers Imelda Mishodzi Molokomme and Rufus Oka Kabiwa. Molokomme holds degrees from the University of Botswana and Swaziland. In 1983, she obtained a master's degree in law from Yale Law School in the United States. She also obtained a PhD in law from Leiden University. Her thesis, ''Children of the Fence: The maintenance of extra-marital children under law and practice in Botswana'', was published soon after. Education She has a Bachelor of Laws from the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Court Of Botswana
The High Court of Botswana is the highest court of Botswana. It is based in Gaborone with branches in Lobatse, Francistown, and Maun. It operates above the Magistrates' Courts of Botswana, but below the Appeal Court. The High Court is headed by the Chief Justice of Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar .... References Courts in Botswana {{legal-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unity Dow
Unity Dow ( Diswai; born 23 April 1959) is a Motswana lawyer, human rights activist, specially elected member of parliament, and a writer. She formerly served as a judge on the High Court of Botswana and in various government ministries. Born in the Bechuanaland Protectorate to a seamstress and a farmer, who insisted on their children obtaining an education, Dow grew up in a traditional rural village before modernisation. She earned a law degree in 1983 from the University of Botswana and Swaziland, though her studies were completed in Swaziland and University of Edinburgh, Scotland, as Botswana had no law school at the time. After her graduation, Dow opened the first all-woman law firm in Botswana and in 1997 became the first woman to be appointed as a judge to the country's High Court. During her time in law, Dow was involved in three historic cases in Botswana. In 1990, she was the plaintiff in the landmark legal case, '' Unity Dow v Attorney-General'', which ended the gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. It is distinct from the International Court of Justice, an organ of the United Nations that hears disputes between states. While praised as a major step towards justice, and as an innovation in international law and human rights, the ICC has faced a number of criticisms from governments and civil society, including objections to its jurisdiction, accusations of bias, Eurocentrism and racism, questioning of the fairness of its case-selection and trial procedures, and doubts about its effectiveness. History The establishment of an international tribunal to judge political leaders accused of international crimes was first proposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beninese
Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Republic of Dahomey, Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north-west, and Niger to the north-east. The majority of its population lives on the southern coastline of the Bight of Benin, part of the Gulf of Guinea in the northernmost tropical portion of the Atlantic Ocean. The capital is Porto-Novo, and the seat of government is in Cotonou, the most populous city and economic capital. Benin covers an area of and its population in was estimated to be approximately million. It is a tropical nation, dependent on agriculture, and is an exporter of palm oil and cotton. Some employment and income arise from subsistence agriculture, subsistence farming. The official language of Benin is French, with indigenous languages such as Fon language, Fon, Bariba language, Bariba, Yoruba language, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reine Alapini-Gansou
Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou (born 11 August 1956) is a Beninese jurist who is a judge of the International Criminal Court since March 2018. Early life and education Alapini-Gansou was born in Abidjan in Ivory Coast on August 11, 1956. She has a degree in Common Law from the University of Lyon in France and a master's degree in Business Law and Judicial lCareers from the National University of Benin. She also has a joint postgraduate degree from the Universities of Maastricht, Lomé and Bhutan. Career Alapini-Gansou was admitted to the Benin Bar in 1986. She worked for Avocats Sans Frontières Belgium on the project "Justice for all in Rwanda" in 2001. She has taught General Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Abomey-Calavi since 2001 and has authored a number of research papers in human rights and law. She was a member of the Benin Women Lawyers Association and initiated several laws protecting women in Benin. Alapini-Gansou was an intern for the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoire Agbanrin-Elisha
Victoire Désirée Adétoro Agbanrin-Elisha (born 1944) is Benin's first female prosecutor. Life Victoire Agbanrin-Elisha became a judge at Cotonou's Court of First Instance in 1970. In the 1970s and 1980s she had various spells as a counsellor on the Court of Appeal. From 1981 to 1986 she served as prosecutor. In 1988 she was appointed to be a Supreme Court judge, but retired later that year. In 1989 Agbanrin-Elisha started a practice as advocate at the Cotonou Court of Appeal. In 2003 she was shortlisted for the post of Deputy Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals ... (ICC). In 2009 Benin nominated her as a candidate to be a judge at the ICC. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Agbanrin-Elisha, Victoire 1944 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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