'Judge Fausto Pocar' (born 1939) is an
Italian jurist. He is professor of
International Law at the
University of Milan. From 1984 to
2000, he was elected member of the
Human Rights Committee of the United Nations, serving as the committee's chairman from 1991 to
1992. Pocar served in the Italian delegation to the
UN General Assembly in
New York and to the
Commission of Human Rights in Geneva several times. In 1999, he was appointed as a judge to the
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and is President of this tribunal since November 2005. He is also a member of the Appeals Chamber of the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) since 2000.
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International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda