Judge Theodor Meron steps down from Judicial Roster of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

Judge Theodor Meron
Judge Theodor Meron

Judge Theodor Meron has informed the Secretary-General of the United Nations, through President Carmel Agius, of his intention to resign from the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) as of 17 November 2021, which marks two decades from the commencement of his first term as a Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

From 2001, Judge Meron served on the Appeals Chamber of both the ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) until the closure of these Tribunals.

President Agius launches third cycle of Mechanism’s Inter-University Video Lecture Programme

Judge Carmel Agius, President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), today launched the third cycle of the Mechanism’s Inter-University Video Lecture Programme (Programme) with a lecture on the creation and jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). For the first time, postgraduate students from 12 universities across the region of the former Yugoslavia took part in the online event.
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President Agius meets with President of the United Nations General Assembly

Judge Carmel Agius and Ambassador Abdulla Shahid
Judge Carmel Agius and Ambassador Abdulla Shahid

The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Carmel Agius, met today with the President of the Seventy-Sixth Session of the United Nations General Assembly, His Excellency Ambassador Abdulla Shahid of the Republic of Maldives, at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Secretary-General appoints Judge Fatimata Sanou Touré of Burkina Faso to serve as Mechanism Judge

Judge Fatimata Sanou Touré of Burkina Faso
Judge Fatimata Sanou Touré of Burkina Faso

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres, has appointed Judge Fatimata Sanou Touré of Burkina Faso to the roster of Judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (“Mechanism”), effective 12 August 2021.