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Special Court For Sierra Leone
The Special Court for Sierra Leone, or the "Special Court" (SCSL), also called the Sierra Leone Tribunal, was a judicial body set up by the government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations to "prosecute persons who bear the greatest responsibility for serious violations of international humanitarian law and Sierra Leonean law" committed in Sierra Leone after 30 November 1996 and during the Sierra Leone Civil War. The court's working language was English. The court listed offices in Freetown, The Hague, and New York City. Following its dissolution in 2013, it was replaced by the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone in order to complete its mandate and manage a variety of ongoing and ad-hoc functions, including witness protection and support, supervision of prison sentences and claims for compensation. On 26 April 2012, former Liberian President Charles Taylor became the first African head of state to be convicted for his part in war crimes. Origin On 12 June 2000, Sierra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra Leone has a tropical climate, with diverse environments ranging from savanna to rainforests. The country has a population of 7,092,113 as of the 2015 census. The capital and largest city is Freetown. The country is divided into five administrative regions, which are subdivided into 16 districts. Sierra Leone is a constitutional republic with a unicameral parliament and a directly elected president serving a five-year term with a maximum of two terms. The current president is Julius Maada Bio. Sierra Leone is a secular nation with the constitution providing for the separation of state and religion and freedom of conscience (which includes freedom of thoughts and religion). Muslims make up about three-quarters of the population, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the Organs of the United Nations, six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international security, international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter. Its powers include establishing peacekeeping operations, enacting international sanctions, and authorizing military action. The UNSC is the only UN body with the authority to issue binding United Nations Security Council resolution, resolutions on member states. Like the UN as a whole, the Security Council was created after World War II to address the failings of the League of Nations in maintaining world peace. It held its first session on 17 January 1946 but was largely paralyzed in the following decades by the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union (and their allies). Nevertheless, it authorized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binta Mansaray
Binta Mansaray, COR, is a Sierra Leonean human rights advocate and activist, who was appointed Registrar of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) by the United Nations Secretary-General in September 2014. She had served as Acting Registrar since June 2009 and was previously Deputy Registrar of the SCSL from July 2007. In 2012, she was one of the women whose "historic" leadership at the helm of the SCSL was highlighted, "with all of its four Principals being women—a first in the history of international tribunals." In 2022, she was the recipient of the National Reconciliation Award, which honours an individual who has made a consistent contribution to transitional justice or human rights in Sierra Leone. Born in Sierra Leone, Mansaray is a graduate of the University of Sierra Leone and has a master's degree in French from Fordham University in New York, as well as a master's degree in Public Administration and Policy from the American University in Washington, DC. Honours an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Von Hebel
Herman von Hebel (born 22 November 1961) is a Dutch jurist, he was Registrar of the International Criminal Court between 2013 and 2018. Career Van Hebel was born on 22 November 1961 in Coevorden. From 1981 to 1987 Von Hebel studied international law at the University of Groningen. He was a senior legal officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia from 2001 to 2006. He was Deputy Registrar and later Registrar for the Special Court for Sierra Leone between 2006 and 2009. Von Hebel subsequently became Deputy Registrar of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. On 10 December 2010 Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon appointed Von Hebel as Registrar. He held positions at the Tribunal between 2009 and 2013. International Criminal Court Von Hebel was elected as Registrar of the International Criminal Court on 8 March 2013. On 18 April 2013 he succeeded Silvana Arbia Silvana Arbia (born 19 November 1952 in Senise, Italy) was previously the Registra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malawi
Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south and southwest. Malawi spans over and has an estimated population of 19,431,566 (as of January 2021). Malawi's capital (and largest city) is Lilongwe. Its second-largest is Blantyre, its third-largest is Mzuzu and its fourth-largest is its former capital, Zomba. The name ''Malawi'' comes from the Maravi, an old name for the Chewa people who inhabit the area. The country is nicknamed "The Warm Heart of Africa" because of the friendliness of its people. The part of Africa now known as Malawi was settled around the 10th century by migrating Bantu groups . Centuries later, in 1891, the area was colonised by the British and became a protectorate of the United Kingdom known as Nyasaland. In 1953, it b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovemore G
Lovemore is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: *Annette Lovemore, South African politician, currently Shadow Deputy Minister of Home Affairs *Sean Lovemore (born 1992), New Zealand football (soccer) player *Tayla Lovemore (born 1995), South African swimmer Given name: *Lovemore Madhuku, Zimbabwean politician and democracy activist *Lovemore Majaivana (born 1954), Zimbabwean musician, Ndebele singer *Lovemore Matombo, the President of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) *Lovemore Mokgweetsi (born 1974), Botswana footballer *Lovemore Moyo (born 1965), Zimbabwean politician, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe *Charles Lovemore Mungoshi (born 1947), writer from Zimbabwe *Lovemore N'dou Lovemore Ndou (born 16 August 1971) is a South African Australian, South African-Australian solicitor and former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2012. He held the International Boxing Federation, IBF junior-welterweight ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many List of islands of the United Kingdom, smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Vincent
Robin Vincent, CMG, CBE (27 February 1944 – 12 June 2011) was an international expert in the administration of justice, and a major contributor to the creation and effective functioning of international criminal tribunals. Career He started his career in 1962 in the British court system as a court administrator in Worcester County. He later served in the Lord Chancellor’s Department Headquarters as Head of the Court Service Development, and Head of the Personnel and Judicial Appointments Divisions. In 1993, he became Regional Director for the North West of England, and in that capacity he served as a member of the Court Service Board for England and Wales. In 2000, the British Council and the UK Department for International Development appointed him to provide training in court administration for the Russian Judicial Department in Moscow and southern Russia. From January 2002, at the request of the United Nations, Robin Vincent participated in the preparations for the establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal was an ''ad hoc'' court located in The Hague, Netherlands. It was established by United Nations Security Council Resolution 827, Resolution 827 of the United Nations Security Council, which was passed on 25 May 1993. It had jurisdiction over four clusters of crimes committed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991: grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war, genocide, and crimes against humanity. The maximum sentence that it could impose was life imprisonment. Various countries signed agreements with the UN to carry out custodial sentences. A total of 161 persons were indicted; the final indictments were issued in December 2004, the last of which were co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR; french: Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda; rw, Urukiko Mpanabyaha Mpuzamahanga Rwashyiriweho u Rwanda) was an international court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 955 in order to judge people responsible for the Rwandan genocide and other serious violations of international law in Rwanda, or by Rwandan citizens in nearby states, between 1 January and 31 December 1994. The court eventually convicted 61 individuals at a cost of $1.3 billion. In 1995, it became located in Arusha, Tanzania, under Resolution 977. From 2006, Arusha also became the location of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. In 1998 the operation of the tribunal was expanded in Resolution 1165. Through several resolutions, the Security Council called on the tribunal to complete its investigations by end of 2004, complete all trial activities by end of 2008, and complete all work in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malicious Damage Act 1861
The Malicious Damage Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict c 97) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it then was). It consolidated provisions related to malicious damage from a number of earlier statutes into a single Act. For the most part these provisions were, according to the draftsman of the Act, incorporated with little or no variation in their phraseology. It is one of a group of Acts sometimes referred to as the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861. It was passed with the object of simplifying the law. It is essentially a revised version of an earlier consolidation Act, the Malicious Injuries to Property Act 1827 (7 & 8 Geo 4 c 30) (and the equivalent Irish Act), incorporating subsequent statutes. The Act applied in the Republic of Ireland until 1991 and still applies in some Commonwealth countries which were parts of the British Empire in 1861, such as Sierra Leone. Injuries by fire to buildings, and goods therein The following words ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prevention Of Cruelty To Children Act, 1926
Prevention may refer to: Health and medicine * Preventive healthcare, measures to prevent diseases or injuries rather than curing them or treating their symptoms General safety * Crime prevention, the attempt to reduce deter crime and criminals * Disaster prevention, measures taken to prevent and provide protection for disasters * Pollution prevention in the US, activities that reduce the amount of pollution generated by a process * Preventive maintenance, maintenance performed to prevent faults from occurring or developing into major defects * Prevent strategy, a scheme in the UK to report radicalisation * Risk prevention, reducing the potential of loss from a given action, activity and/or inaction * Risk management, the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks in business Other uses * ''Prevention'' (magazine), an American healthy lifestyle magazine * ''Prevention'' (album), a 2009 album by the Scottish indie rock band De Rosa * Prevent defense, an Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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