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(ICTY) judgements which convicted Ratko Mladić and

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of war crimes. Nyambe was born on 31 December 1951 in Zambia and studied law at the

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, graduating in 1975. She was a resident magistrate in Kabwe, Zambia from 1978 to 1980, and a senior magistrate, in

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and Gwelo, Zimbabwe, from 1980 to 1984. From 1984 to 1992 she was legal counsel to the

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, and from 1992 to 1996 worked in private practice. In February 1996, she became a senior legal officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), in Arusha, Tanzania, rising to be general counsel to the ICTR, until 2006. She was appointed a judge of the High Court of Zambia in 2006, retiring from the post in 2015. She became a Judge of the ICTY in 2004, and has been a judge of the

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' International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals since 2011. She served as a Council Member of the

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from 1982 to 1994, being vice-chair in the final year. She sat on a Zambian Parliamentary Fact-Finding Committee into discriminatory laws against women. She was granted the honour of being appointed a

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by the

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, Levy Mwanawasa, in 2005.

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Video interview
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