Solomy Balungi Bossa

Solomy Balungi Bossa (born 14 April 1956) is a Ugandan judge on the International Criminal Court. She was elected to a nine-year term on December 8, 2017 and assumed full-time duty on March 9, 2018.[1] Previously she was appointed to a six-year term on the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights in 2014.

Early life and education

Bossa was born on 14 April 1956 in Uganda.[2] She has a Bachelor of Laws from Makerere University and is a candidate for a Master of Laws at the University of London.[3]

Career

Bossa has been a human rights activist since 1980 and founded non-profit organisation including the East African Centre for Constitutional Development, the Uganda Network on HIV, AIDS, Ethics and the Law and the Uganda Law Society.[3][2]

Bossa was a lecturer at the Law Development Centre of Uganda from 1981 until 1997.[3] She was a legal practitioner from 1988 until 1997, representing indigent women and expanding legal aid, including serving as President of the Uganda Law Society.[4]

Bossa was a Judge on the High Court of Uganda from 1997 until 2013.[3] She was a judge on the East African Court of Justice from 2001 until 2006 and on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda from 2003 until 2013.[3] She was appointed to the Ugandan Constitutional Court in 2013. In 2014, she was one of the judges who annulled Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act for not being passed with the required quorum.[5] She received death threats on social media.[6]

Bossa was appointed to the African Court in September 2014.[7] In 2017, she is a nominee for the International Criminal Court, with elections to be held in nDecember 2017.[4] Bossa is a member of the International Commission of Jurists, the International Association of Women Judges, the East African Judges and Magistrate Association, the National Association of Women Judges, and the Uganda Association of Judges and Magistrates.[2]

Publications

  • Bossa, Solomy Balungi (2010). "A Critique Of The East African Court Of Justice As A Human Rights Court". In C. Eboe-Osuji. Protecting Humanity: Essays in International Law and Policy in Honour of Navanethem Pillay. Martinus Nijhoff. pp. 333–348. ISBN 9789004189577.
  • Bossa, Solomy Balungi (2006). "Towards a protocol extending the jurisdiction of the East African Court of Justice". East African Journal of Human Rights & Democracy. 4: 31.

References

  1. ↑ "judge". www.icc-cpi.int. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
  2. 1 2 3 "Judge Solomy Balungi Bossa". United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Justice Solomy Balungi Bossa - Uganda". African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.
  4. 1 2 "Bossa, Solomy Balungi (Uganda)" (PDF). International Criminal Court.
  5. ↑ Wesaka, Anthony (30 September 2014). "We have received public backlash for annulling antigay law- judge". Daily Monitor. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  6. ↑ "Uganda: Judge Who Annulled Anti-Gay Law Faced Death Threats". Mamba. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  7. ↑ "Hon. Lady Justice Solomy Balungi Bossa Appointed to the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights". Judiciary of Uganda.
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