Fatou Bensouda

Fatou Bensouda   (lawyer, diplomat)
Born	31 January 1961
Attended at least 7 Munich Security Conferences as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court  Gambian High Commissioner in London In office 3 August 2022 - Present  Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court  In office June 2012 - June 2021

Fatou Bom Bensouda (née Nyang) is a Gambian lawyer and former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), who was appointed Gambian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom on 3 August 2022.

ICC prosecutor

Fatou Bensouda was Prosecutor at the ICC from June 2012 to June 2021, after having served as a Deputy Prosecutor in charge of the Prosecutions Division of the ICC from 2004 to 2012. Before that she was Minister of Justice and Attorney General of The Gambia from 1998 to 2000. She has also held positions as a legal adviser and a trial attorney at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

Sanctioned by the US

On 2 September 2020, Fatou Bensouda was named a "specially designated national" by the United States government under the Trump administration, forbidding all US persons and companies from doing business with her. The Biden administration reversed course on 2 April 2021 when President Joe Biden revoked Executive Order 13928, removing Bensouda from the SDN list; US Secretary of State Antony Blinken released a statement calling the previous sanctions "inappropriate and ineffective", but still restated that Washington will continue strongly opposing any ICC's actions relating to the Afghanistan and Palestinian situations.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Halifax International Security Forum/2020	20 November 2020	22 November 2020	Canada Halifax Nova Scotia	Annual spooky conference in November, this year held online instead of in Canada due to Covid lockdowns.
Halifax International Security Forum/2022	18 November 2022	20 November 2022	Canada Halifax Nova Scotia
Munich Security Conference/2013	1 February 2013	3 February 2013	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 49th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2015	6 February 2015	8 February 2015	Germany Munich Bavaria	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/2016	12 February 2016	14 February 2016	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 52nd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2018	12 February 2018	14 February 2018	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 54th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/2020	14 February 2020	16 February 2020	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers."

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:To continue the Gaza genocide, Israel and the US must destroy the laws of war	Article	31 May 2024	Jonathan Cook	Now, as Netanyahu and Gallant risk being put in the dock at The Hague, Washington is finally finding its resolve to act. Not to stop genocide. But to offer Israel protection to carry on.

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