{"id":3502,"date":"2014-12-01T00:21:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T23:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkingafrica.org\/V2\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=3502"},"modified":"2020-05-25T23:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T21:25:00","slug":"henriette-mensa-bonsu-the-icc-the-politics-and-the-international-justice","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkingafrica.org\/V2\/project\/henriette-mensa-bonsu-the-icc-the-politics-and-the-international-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"The ICC, the politics and the international justice &#8211; Henriette Mensa Bonsu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8OXtvBhiJ_4\" width=\"740\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Henrietta Joy Abena Nyarko Mensa-Bonsu is the Director of the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy and a Full Professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law in the University of Ghana, Legon. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With a distinguished career spanning over three decades and counting, Professor Mensa-Bonsu has served in a number of high-level international capacities. A high point in these positions was her appointment as the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Rule of Law in Liberia from 2007 \u2013 2011. <\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, she had been the ECOWAS nominee on the International Technical Advisory Committee for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2006; Ghana\u2019s Representative on the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Commission of Eminent Jurists on the Lockerbie Case from 2001 to 2002, a member of the African Union Commission\u2019s Committee of Eminent Jurists on the Hissene Habre case in April 2006 and the vice chairperson of the ECOWAS Working Group on the Harmonisation of Business laws on non- OHADA States from 2005 \u2013 2007.<\/p>\n<p>For Henrietta Joy Abena Nyarko Mensa-Bonsu, \u00ab\u00a0The ICC is the product of international politics and it has to work within an atmosphere of international politics&#8230; One has to be conscious of this and proceeds accordingly\u00a0\u00bb. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8OXtvBhiJ_4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thinkingafrica.org\/V2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Henriette-Mensa-Bonsu.jpg\" alt=\"Henriette-Mensa-Bonsu\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3503\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3503,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-3502","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-mediation-paix"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The ICC, the politics and the international justice - Henriette Mensa Bonsu - Thinking Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkingafrica.org\/V2\/portfolio\/henriette-mensa-bonsu-the-icc-the-politics-and-the-international-justice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The ICC, the politics and the international justice - Henriette Mensa Bonsu - Thinking Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\ufeff Henrietta Joy Abena Nyarko Mensa-Bonsu is the Director of the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy and a Full Professor of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law in the University of Ghana, Legon. 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