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Judge Fausto Pocar (born 1939) is an Italian jurist. He is professor of International Law at the University of Milan. From 1984 to 2000, he was elected member of the Human Rights Committee of the United Nations, serving as the committee's chairman from 1991 to 1992. Pocar served in the Italian delegation to the UN General Assembly in New York and to the Commission of Human Rights in Geneva several times. In 1999, he was appointed as a judge to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and is President of this tribunal since November 2005. He is also a member of the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) since 2000.
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