Chafika Bensaoula

Chafika Bensaoula is an Algerian jurist who was elected to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights for a six-year term in 2017.

Early life and education

Bensaoula was born in Algeria and has a doctorate in public law.[1]

Career

Bensaoula has been a judge of the Criminal Affair Chambers and Court of Appeal in Algeria.[1] She is a lecturer at the National School of Magistracy in Algeria.[1] She was Director of the Department of Legal Studies and Documentation at the Ministry of Justice.[2] In April 2016, she was nominated for the International Narcotics Control Board.[3] She is on the governing board of administrators for the International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law.[4]

Bensaoula was elected to the African Court at the African Union meeting in Addis Ababa in January 2017,[5][6][7] alongside Malawian Tujilane Chizumila. The two were sworn in on 6 March, bringing the number of women on the court to five of eleven judges for the first time[8] and fulfilling the gender parity requirement of the Protocol establishing the court.[9]

Personal life

Bensaoula speaks Arabic, English and French.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Justice Bensaoula Chafika - Algeria". African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.
  2. ↑ "Second International Conference for a Euro-Mediterranean Community of International Arbitration". UNCITRAL. 12 November 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "INCB Watch April 2016 - Elections at the International Narcotics Control Board 2016". International Drug Policy Consortium. 1 April 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  4. ↑ "Annual Report" (PDF). International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law. 2016.
  5. ↑ "Two New Judges Appointed to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights". African Union. 3 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "African rights court gets more female judges". The New Times. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  7. ↑ Ettouahria, Samila (9 March 2017). "Journée internationale des femmes : Une juge algérienne à la Cour africaine des droits de l'homme". El Moudjahid (in French). Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  8. ↑ "African Women Judges and Gender Parity on the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights". GQUAL. 6 February 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  9. ↑ "Two new female judges sworn-in at the African Court on Human and People Rights". Kenyan Woman. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
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