JUDGE JOYCE  ALUOCH

Judge as of 11 March 2009, for a term of nine years. Assigned to the Trial Division. Elected from the African Group of States, list A. Internation Criminal Court (ICC)

Judge Aluoch (born 22 October 1946) has been a Judge of the High Court of Kenya for over 20 years, and was elevated to the Court of Appeal, Kenya in Dec. 2007. She is also an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. As a senior judge and the then vice-chairperson of the Judicial Curriculum Review Committee and Patron of the Kenya Women Judges Association, she has extensive experience in the training of judges and magistrates in the provision of regional and international human rights instruments, a program she has undertaken in conjunction with the International Association of Women Judges. Judge Aluoch has also contributed to promoting the rights of the child, as chair of the African Union Committee of Experts on the Rights of the Child, preparing the rules of practice and procedure for the committee as well as guidelines for initial reporting to the African Committee by Member States of the African Union. Special missions undertaken by Judge Aluoch include negotiations undertaken on behalf of the African Union with the Government of Sudan to ratify the African charter to secure the rights of children, and a fact finding mission to the war- torn northern Uganda to report on the effects of the war on children. She also served for six years as vice-chair and member of the UN Committee on the Right and Welfare of the Child based in Geneva and was in the process of chairing a Task- Force for the implementation of the new Sexual Offences Act, 2006 aimed at developing a national policy frame work and a national action plan for handling sexual offences in Kenya.