Tanzania’s Minister for Constitutional and Legal Affairs Dies in Dodoma

Dr. Augustine Mahiga
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) joins the rest of United Nations in Tanzania, the diplomatic community in the United Republic of Tanzania (Tanzania) and the international community in conveying its deepest sympathy to the President of Tanzania, the people of Tanzania and the family of Dr. Augustine Mahiga, Minister for Constitutional and Legal Affairs of Tanzania following the latter's passing on Friday 1 May 2020.

IRMCT Principals’ Joint Message – Genocide Commemoration on 7 April 2020

IRMCT Principals: President Carmel Agius (center) with Prosecutor Serge Brammertz (right) and Registrar Olufemi Elias (left).
IRMCT Principals: President Carmel Agius (center) with Prosecutor Serge Brammertz (right) and Registrar Olufemi Elias (left).
On this International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) remembers the men, women and children who were massacred by Hutu extremists during the 100 bloody days of the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

The Mechanism celebrates International Women’s Day

The Mechanism celebrates International Women’s Day

On Friday 6 March 2020, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) hosted an early celebration of International Women’s Day, which is officially marked on 8 March. The Mechanism’s celebration reflected this year’s International Women’s Day theme of gender equality and the campaign: “I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”.

The Mechanism welcomes the new Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Republic of Tanzania

The Mechanism welcomes the new Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Republic of Tanzania

On Thursday, 20 February 2020, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism) received a visit from the newly appointed Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany (Germany) to the United Republic of Tanzania, Her Excellency  Ambassador Regine Hess, at the premises of the Mechanism’s Arusha branch.

Secretary-General appoints Judge Iain Bonomy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to serve as Mechanism Judge

Judge Iain Bonomy
Judge Iain Bonomy
On 6 February 2020, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. António Guterres, appointed Lord Iain Bonomy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the roster of Judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (“Mechanism”), with immediate effect.

Mechanism’s President and Chief of Registry, Hague branch, present the work of the Mechanism before a Working Party of the Council of the European Union

Mechanism’s President and Chief of Registry
The President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism), Judge Carmel Agius and the Chief of Registry in The Hague, Mr. Michael Adenuga, on behalf of Registrar Olufemi Elias, today gave presentations on the work of the Mechanism before the Working Party on Public International Law (Working Party) of the Council of the European Union (Council of the EU) in Brussels, Belgium.
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