Fatou Bensouda
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Attended at least 7 Munich Security Conferences as Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
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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.
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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).[1]
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.[2] The Biden administration reversed course on 2 April 2021 when President Joe Biden revoked Executive Order 13928, removing Bensouda from the SDN list;[3] 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.[4]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| 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 |
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| 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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