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"“I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE CHALLENGING. THIS IS A COUNTRY THAT HAS BEEN IN CONFLICT FOR A LONG TIME…”"

"Justice Joyce Aluoch is a recipient of several international and national awards. These include the Presidential honours of Elder of the Burning Spear (EBS), First Class Chief of the Order of the Burning Spear (CBS), and The Trail Blazer Award (2018), for services rendered to Kenya."

"She recently served as a Board Member of Mediators Beyond Borders International, the Chair of the Advisory Board of the newly formed Africa-Asia Mediation Association, and Patron of Kisumu Mediation Centre."

"Justice Aluoch became a judge at the ICC on March 11, 2009, for a term of nine years. She was assigned to the Trial Division and assumed full-time duty on May 25, 2009."

"She also established and served as the inaugural Head of the Family Division of the High Court and simplified litigation in Family Law matters."

"She is a Certified Mediator, International Mediation Institute (IMI), and Accredited Mediator (Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution London)."

"In her long, outstanding legal career, she established a speciality for Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms, namely, Arbitration and Mediation."

"Marie Shabaya FORMER JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AND PRESIDING JUDGE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) AT THE HAGUE| KENYA"

"“By the time I retired from The Hague, I had served as magistrate and judge for a total of 44 years. Some opportunities will knock on your door but not all opportunities. Most opportunities you have to look out for,”"

"“I remember that I wasn’t terribly convinced [to take on this role]…I had never been to Juba. I had never been to South Sudan. I knew it was going to be challenging. This is a country that has been in conflict for a long time and this is a government in transition,”"

"It is our turn to shine!"

"It was not easy that change has amalgamated where women are also accepted in society. It's all in the streets that women can do it."

"I am the first woman in Kenya to take this office but because every time a member of the marginalised group breaks a barrier, they hold a space for the dreams and hopes of others."

"It is a heavy one but it becomes lighter because it is a shared responsibility. It is a shared responsibility because justice works through a chain which runs through all the branches of government and it is as strongest as its weakest link. At the end of the chain, it is us the Judiciary, but we cannot work when the chain is broken."

"I am a villager in the truest sense. My parents were peasant farmers and we were 18 children from two mothers. So, for all of us, especially girls - it was a struggle to overcome the odds."

"He who alleges fraud must show proof. Allegations of ballot stuffing were only unproven hypotheses. Fraud is a serious offence and must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt."

"Food helps people talk nicely… so we will have a couple of retreats, eating [there] to understand what is the problem."

"We are being respected now not only in the region but even in the whole world. They are looking upon Kenya for leadership and also for independent institutions, especially the institution of Judiciary” “This is not because of my power, but this is because of the faithful God that I serve."

"When you think about it if you close your eyes and listen to me, would you know that I'm a person with albinism is there anything in my voice that says I'm a person with albinism? so in everyway l am like everyone else."

"Society we are allowing people die when they needn't"

"The worst was when adults really call you names as a child you don't understand and you know this is a person who looks like my mother or my father where they laughing at me."

"I would like a society in which lam allowed to grow and fulfil my desires, my dreams because we all have dreams."

"If I am a young girl or a young boy, l think of the same hopes, the same aspirations as every other child, as every other woman, as every other man."

"People judge you as this child with albinism and basically there is nothing that they can see and value in you. We are human in everyway like you, that we are entitled to the same dignity as you, that we feel the same cold and the same pain and the same heat that you do, only that we don't have pigmentation."

"If society could begin to see people, as children, as women, then perhaps life would be different."

"In this whole word there will be deliberate who will be the priests who will pass me by but it will always be the Samaritan who will guide me."

"He made us fight so much, he made the women movement very strong infact we became almost militant."

"We must have the courage to make decisions that are right, not decisions that are popular"

"The law is not a static tool; it is a living instrument that must be used to transform society"

"Politics is the management and determines who gets what get and how."

"Politics is not for the faint-hearted."

"The next time you vote the next time you pay tax the next time you experience discrimination please don't wait for the time to become involved get a seat at the table."

"Even though Women and men are equal we are different from the moment of birth to the onset of menstruation the rite of passage the challenges of pregnancy and childbirth mother hood menopause these are issues that affect us very differently from the other gender the list is actually endless."

"If you are absent at the table; so are your interest."

"In obedience to God’s Command and Will, and guided by the Constitution, to serve humanity, and Kenyans in particular, with dedication, honesty and integrity, striving at all times to uphold the rule of law and do justice to all."

"The greatness of any nation lies in its fidelity to the constitution and adherence to the rule of law and above all respect to God."