Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba (born in

Mazabuka Mazabuka is a town in the Southern Province of Zambia. It is the capital of Mazabuka District, one of the thirteen administrative units in the Southern Province. The name Mazabuka originates from a Tonga local language word "kuzabuka" which me ...

Zambia Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most central point. Its neighbours are t ...

in 1948), commonly referred to as Florence Mumba, is a Zambian judge at the

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, also known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal or the Cambodia Tribunal. She has also previously served in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the

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 Nation ...

and as well as a Supreme Court Judge in

Background and education

She was born in

Mazabuka District Mazabuka District is a district of Zambia, located in Southern Province. The capital lies at Mazabuka Mazabuka is a town in the Southern Province of Zambia. It is the capital of Mazabuka District, one of the thirteen administrative units in ...

, in the Southern Province of

, in 1948. She graduated from the University of Zambia, School of Law, in 1972, with a

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Work history in Zambia

In 1973 she went into private practice in

, serving in that capacity until 1980. In October of that year, she was appointed as a High Court Judge in

, being the first woman to serve in that capacity. She represented

at the Conference on Women in 1985 and at the African Regional Conference on Women in 1994. She was appointed to ombudsman in 1989, which she remained, until she was appointed to the Supreme Court in

in 1997.

Work history at the United Nations

In 1992, as a member of the

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Commission on the Status of Women, she participated in drafting a resolution to the

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, to have rape included as a war crime in the jurisdiction of war crimes tribunals. She served as a member of the International Ombudsman Institute Board from 1992 to 1996. From 1994 until 1996, she served as Vice-President of that board. From 1994 until 2003, she served as Commissioner on the International Commission of Jurists. In 1997, she was elected Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), serving as Vice President of The ICTY from 1999 to 2001. From 2003 to 2005, she served on the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the

(ICTY/ICTR). In 2009, she was appointed to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of

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, first as a Reserve Judge, and later as a full-time judge of Supreme Court Chamber of ECCC. In November 2020, a panel of international lawyers chaired by Mumba and

Philippe Sands Philippe Joseph Sands, KC (born 17 October 1960) is a British and French writer and lawyer a11 King's Bench Walkand Professor of Laws and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. A specialist in ...

drafted a proposed international law crimilalising

ecocide Ecocide is human impact on the environment causing mass destruction to that environment. Ten nations have codified ecocide as a crime. Activities that might constitute ecocide in these nations include substantially damaging or destroying ecos ...

, the destruction of ecosystems.

References

External links

Website of the Supreme Court of Zambia
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Background and education

Work history in Zambia

Work history at the United Nations

See also

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