Mohamed Chande Othman

Education

• LL.B, University of Dar Es salaam, 1974
• M.A Webster University, Geneva, Switzerland, 1982
• Certificate, The Hague Academy of International Law, the Netherlands, 1983

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United Nations High Level positions

• Head of the UN Independent Panel of Experts, charged with the assessment and examination of new information relating to the tragic death of the former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld
• UN Human Rights Council’s: Member of the High-Level Commission of Inquiry into the Situation in Lebanon following the Israel-Lebanon Armed Conflict
• UN Human Rights Council‘s: Independent Expert on the human rights situation in the Sudan. He visits Southern Sudan and the Abyei area.
• Prosecutor General of East Timor
• Chief of Prosecutions of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

  Tanzania Justice Department positions

• Chief Justice of Tanzania
• High Court Judge
• Appeal Court Judge

  Other Legal and Professional experience

• of the Aga Khan University
• Expert advisor for the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability - Wayamo Foundation.
• Senior Legal and Justice Reform Advisor for UNDP Cambodia
• Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Inquiry on the Relocation of Pastoralists and their Livestock from Usanga Valley in Ihefu, Mbarali District, Tanzania
• Public Prosecutor for the Bank of Tanzania
• Working with the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
• Co-founder of the Geneva

  Publications

• Accountability for International Humanitarian law Violations: The Case of Rwanda and East Timor, Springer Publishers, Heidelberg, Germany, 2005
• 'The Framework of Prosecutions and the Court System in East Timor' in New Approaches in International Criminal Justice, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 2003
• "Defense Practices and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal", in Bohlander, M, Boed, R, Wilsn, R.J, Defense in International Criminal Proceedings, Transitional Publishers Inc., N.Y, 2006
• The Protection of Refugee Witnesses by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, International Journal of Refugee Law, Volume 14, No.4, May 2003
• The Gulf Wars and Termination of Captivity for Prisoners of War, Revue de Droit International des Sciences Diplomatiques et Politiques Jan-Mars 1993, 11-36, Geneva, 1993