Joyce Aluoch
Joyce Aluoch | |
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Aluoch in 2017 | |
| First Vice-President of the International Criminal Court | |
| In office March 11, 2015 – March 10, 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Sanji Mmasenono Monageng |
| Succeeded by | Robert Fremr |
| Judge of the International Criminal Court | |
| In office 11 March 2009 – March 10, 2018 | |
| Nominated by | Kenya |
| Appointed by | Assembly of States Parties |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | University of Nairobi Kenya School of Law Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University |
Joyce Aluoch (born 1947) is a Kenyan lawyer who served as Judge of the International Criminal Court from 2009 until 2018. She is a former judge of the High Court of Kenya. In addition to her career as a judge, she was the First Chairperson of the Committee of African Union Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child and the Vice-Chairperson of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child from 2003 to 2009. She has also served as the inaugural head of the family division of the Kenyan High Court and a member of the Court of Appeal.
Aluoch has had a pivotal role in negotiations between the African Union and the Government of Sudan to ratify the African charter and secure the rights of children, pursued a fact-finding mission to war-torn northern Uganda on the effects of the war on children, and chaired a task-force aimed at handling sexual offences in Kenya through the implementation of the new Sexual Offences Act, 2006.