Sidiki Kaba

Sidiki Kaba was born on 21 August 1950 in Tambacounda, Senegal. He is the keeper of the seals and the Minister of Justice of Senegal since 2013. On 8 December 2014, he was elected as President of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as consensus candidate from the African States Parties and endorsed by the Bureau of the Assembly. He will serve as President of the Assembly, which operates from New York and The Hague, while also continuing his functions as Minister of Justice from Dakar.

Sidiki Kaba studied law. He has dedicated his professional career to the promotion and protection of human rights, particularly on issues related to freedom of press, women’s and political rights. He participated in the 1998 negotiations of the Rome Statute and thereafter he implemented numerous campaigns to promote the ratification of the Statute by Senegal and many other African countries. In 2001, he became the first African to be elected President of the International Federation of Human Rights, organization that he had previously represented to the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights. He is founder of numerous legal and advocacy organizations.

Sidiki Kaba attended the regional elementary school of Tambacounda, Senegal, and the Lycée Van Volhonoven (currently Lycée Lamine Gueye) in Dakar, graduating in 1972. He obtained three bachelor degrees at the University of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: in Law, in Philosophy and in Modern Literature. He also obtained a master in Business Law at the University of Dakar in Senegal, and was admitted to the Bar of Senegal in 1980.

Sidiki Kaba has worked extensively establishing organizations of human rights in Africa.

In 1979 he joined the Senegalese section of Amnesty International. In 1982 he co-founded the Inter-African Union of Lawyers (Union interafricaine des avocats)

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