With barely three months to the elections for the next judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Kenya's candidate Phoebe Okowa has promised a raft of changes to the international court.
Speaking at the diplomatic reception hosted by the Permanent Mission of Kenya to the United Nations on Tuesday, August 26, Okowa revealed that the issue of delayed justice is among the many issues faced in the international court, but if elected, she would streamline it. "There are, of course, many areas where reform of the court is urgently pertinent.
Many states and councils appearing before the court are simply frustrated by the slow pace of proceedings, with some cases taking as long as a decade before a final judgment is delivered,'' Okowa said.
Okowa also revealed that the court has been slow in the uptake of technology, including in relation to the filing of recent cases.
