UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed Khalida Rashid Khan from Pakistan as a judge to the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the tribunal reported on Monday.
Khan, 54, replaces Mansoor Ahmed, also from Pakistan, who resigned on 22 May "for personal reasons".
The tribunal reported that Khan, whose appointment became effective on 7 July, has joined three other new permanent judges who were elected by the UN General Assembly on 31 January. The three are Ines Monica Weinberg de Roca of Argentina, Jai Ram Reddy of Fiji and Sergei Aleckseievich Egorov of the Russian Federation.
Khan has two Master's degrees: one in law and one in political science. She started in 1974 her career as a civil judge in Peshawar, Pakistan.
The UN Security Council established in 995 the tribunal, based in Arusha, Tanzania, to try the alleged perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, which claimed the lives of at least 800,000 people.
This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions
Share this article
