The International Criminal Court has released the names of four candidates short-listed for the December 2011 election of the chief prosecutor to replace Luis Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine whose nonrenewable term is expiring in June 2012.
The court is the first and only permanent international court that tries people accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
The four are: Fatou B. Bensouda, the current deputy prosecutor; Andrew T. Cayley, the current international
co-prosecutor for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; Mohamed Chande Othman, current chief justice of Tanzania; and Robert Petit, current counsel, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Department of Justice in Canada.
Unless a shorter term is decided on at the election, the new chief prosecutor will be chosen for a nine-year term at the 10th session of the Assemblies of States Parties on Dec. 12-21 at UN headquarters in New York.
Dulcie Leimbach is a co-founder of PassBlue. For PassBlue and other publications, she has reported from New York and overseas from West Africa (Burkina Faso and Mali) and from Europe (Scotland, Sicily, Vienna, Budapest, Kyiv, Armenia, Iceland and The Hague). She has provided commentary on the UN for BBC World Radio, ARD German TV and Radio, NHK’s English channel, Background Briefing with Ian Masters/KPFK Radio in Los Angeles and the Foreign Press Association.
Previously, she was an editor for the Coalition for the UN Convention Against Corruption; from 2008 to 2011, she was the publications director of the United Nations Association of the USA. Before UNA, Leimbach was an editor at The New York Times for more than 20 years, editing and writing for most sections of the paper, including the Magazine, Book Review and Op-Ed. She began her reporting career in small-town papers in San Diego, Calif., and near Boulder, Colo., graduating to the Rocky Mountain News in Denver and then working in New York at The Times. Leimbach has been a fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center’s Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies as well as at Yaddo, the artists’ colony in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; taught news reporting at Hofstra University; and guest-lectured at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the CUNY Journalism School. She graduated from the University of Colorado and has an M.F.A. in writing from Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
save the innocence life……….
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Dear sir/madam
I would like to inform that I know in Cambodia one of the Nepalese guy in prison since 2010.he is innocence,was nothing criminal activities but just terribly arrested him and charged him as a terrorist case according to the one fake letter,which is some one wrote that letter and post to the Us embassy,Australian embassy,on that letter named are 5 persons but any name are not correct even signature.
Now he need the however justice,Cambodian municipal court gave him 8 years jail(prison)without the any strong proof,then he appealed in the Cambodian appeal court but there were also the same result,so now he has not any money to pay for lawyer to go High-court for justice,please help him to get justice……………..
Thanks with my best regards,prem