Chafika Bensaoula Explained

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

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

Career

Ms. 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]

Ms. 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Justice Bensaoula Chafika - Algeria. African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. 2017-09-28. 2017-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20171115082548/http://en.african-court.org/index.php/judges/current-judges. dead.
  2. Web site: Second International Conference for a Euro-Mediterranean Community of International Arbitration. 12 November 2015. 28 September 2017. UNCITRAL.
  3. Web site: INCB Watch April 2016 - Elections at the International Narcotics Control Board 2016. International Drug Policy Consortium. 1 April 2016. 28 September 2017.
  4. Web site: Annual Report. International Institute for Justice and the Rule of Law. 2016. 2017-09-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20170929000338/https://theiij.org/wp-content/uploads/IIJ_Web-2.pdf. 2017-09-29. dead.
  5. Web site: Two New Judges Appointed to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. African Union. 3 February 2017.
  6. Web site: African rights court gets more female judges. The New Times. 8 February 2017. 28 September 2017.
  7. Web site: Journée internationale des femmes : Une juge algérienne à la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme. French. Samila. Ettouahria. 9 March 2017. 28 September 2017. El Moudjahid.
  8. Web site: African Women Judges and Gender Parity on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. 6 February 2017. 23 September 2017. GQUAL.
  9. Web site: Two new female judges sworn-in at the African Court on Human and People Rights. Kenyan Woman. 10 March 2017. 23 September 2017.

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