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The\u00a0International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) announced their new leadership on their website, naming\u00a0Professor Robert K. Goldman (US) as the new President of the organization with\u00a0\u00a0Justice Radmila Dragicevic-Dicic (Serbia) has been elected Vice-President, a role she will undertake jointly with Professor Carlos Ayala (Venezuela) who was also appointed Vice-President earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

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The President and Vice-Presidents are supported by the Executive Committee, which has also been bolstered by new members Justice Sir Nicolas Bratza (UK), former President of the European Court of Human Rights; Dame Silvia Cartwright (New Zealand), former Governor-General of New Zealand; and Shawan Jabarin (Palestine), prominent human rights activist and Director General of Al-Haq, an independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization.<\/p>\n

In addition to these changes in the senior leadership of the ICJ, the organization also welcomed five new members:<\/p>\n

Justice Chinara Aidarbekova (Kyrgyzstan), judge of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan; Gamal Eid (Egypt), prominent lawyer and human rights defender; Jamesina Essie L. King (Sierra Leone), Commissioner of the African Commission on Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights; Michael Sfard (Israel), prominent human rights lawyer who has represented many Israeli and Palestinian individuals and organizations; and Ambiga Sreenevasan, former President of the Malaysian Bar Council.<\/p>\n

NMT congratulate Dato’ Ambiga Sreenevasan on her appointment and wish her all the best in advocating human rights and the independence of judiciary in Malaysia and globally.<\/p>\n

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