Dr. Neeru Chadha from
INDIA has been elected as the Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law
of the Sea, becoming the first
Indian woman to be elected to ITLOS.
Dr. Chadha graduated
from the University of Michigan and the University of Delhi, and went on to
join the legal and Treaties Division of the Ministry of External Affairs in
1992. She was then appointed as the first women Chief Legal Advisor to the
Ministry of External Affairs in 2012.
She was also India’s
lead agent for the cases filed by Italy before the International Tribunal for
the Law of Sea and at the arbitral tribunal in The Hague, in the incident
concerning the accusation against two Italian Marines for shooting dead Indian
fishermen off the coast of Kerala in 2012.
Dr. Chadha had also
represented India before the ICJ in 2016, When Marshall Island had accused
India of not taking its disarmament obligations seriously as a nuclear weapons
state. She has represented the Indian government in various other multilateral
meeting and conference before the United Nation, AALCO (Asian African Legal Consultative
Organization). UNIDROIT (International Institute for the Unification of Private
Law), UNCITRAL (UN commission on International Trade Law).
The
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)
is an intergovernmental organization created by the mandate of the Third
United Nation conference on the Law of the Sea. It was established by the United
Nation Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed at Montego Bay, Jamaica,
on December 10, 1982. The Convention entered into force on November 16, 1994,
and established an international framework for law over “all ocean space, its
uses and resources”. The tribunal is based in Hamburg, Germany. The Convention
also established the International Seabed Authority, with responsibility
for the regulation of seabed mining beyond the limits of national jurisdiction,
that is, beyond the limits of the territorial sea, the contiguous zone and the
continental shelf. There are currently 167 signatories, 166 states plus the European
Union
(Reference: livelaw.in , wikipedia)
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