Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba (born in Mazabuka, Zambia in 1948), commonly referred to as Florence Mumba, is a Zambian judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, also known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal or the Cambodia Tribunal. She has also previously served in the

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, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and as well as a Supreme Court Judge in Zambia.

Background and education

She was born in Mazabuka District, in the Southern Province of Zambia, in 1948. She graduated from the

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, School of Law, in 1972, with a Bachelor of Laws.

Work history in Zambia

In 1973 she went into private practice in Zambia, serving in that capacity until 1980. In October of that year, she was appointed as a High Court Judge in Zambia, being the first woman to serve in that capacity. She represented Zambia at the Conference on Women in 1985 and at the African Regional Conference on Women in 1994. She was appointed to

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in 1989, which she remained, until she was appointed to the Supreme Court in Zambia in 1997.

Work history at the United Nations

In 1992, as a member of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, she participated in drafting a resolution to the UN General Assembly, 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

and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTY/ICTR). In 2009, she was appointed to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, 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 drafted a proposed international law crimilalising ecocide, 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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