Elisabeth Dior Fall Sow is a Senegalese jurist and legal scholar.PORTRAIT: Me Dior Fall Sow, une pionnière toujours aux aguets
''Thiey Dakar'', 24 November 2017. Accessed 10 March 2020. She was the first female prosecutor in

Senegal Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...

, appointed to the Republic at the Court of First Instance of Saint-Louis in 1976. She is honorary president of the Association of Women Jurists.

Life

In 1976 Dior Fall Sow was appointed Public Prosecutor in Saint-Louis, making her Senegal's first female prosecutor. She has been National Director of Education Supervision and Social Protection, Director of Legal Affairs at Sonatel-Orange, Legal Advisor to the

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR; ; ) was an international court, international ''ad-hoc'' court established in November 1994 by the United Nations Security Council in United Nations Security Council Resolution 955, Resolutio ...

, Principal Attorney General for the Court of Appeals of the Criminal Court of Justice of Rwanda, and Consultant for the

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. After making a

UNICEF UNICEF ( ), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing Humanitarianism, humanitarian and Development a ...

-funded study to harmonize Senegalese law in accordance with UN conventions, Dior Fall Sow headed a team which drafted Senegal's 1999 law outlawing

female genital mutilation Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision) is the cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva for non-medical reasons. Prevalence of female ge ...

. From 2001 to 2005 she was a member of the

African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child The African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACERWC) was formed in July 2001, one and half years after the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child came into force. The Committee became operational in 2003 ...

.Former Members
, ACERWC. Accessed 10 March 2020. In 2015 she was made Honorary President of the Network of journalists in Gender and Human Rights. She retired in 2017.

Works

* 'The Rights of Children in the African Judicial System', in E. Verhellen (ed.) ''Understanding Children's Rights'', University of Ghent, 1996.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sow, Dior Fall 1968 births Living people Senegalese women lawyers Senegalese jurists People from Saint-Louis, Senegal