Justice Imani Daud Aboud is a Tanzanian judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights who was elected to serve in that capacity in July 2018. Justice Aboud received her Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Dar es Salaam and her Master of Law degree from the International Maritime Organization.

She is a judge of the Tanzanian High Court and has held several important positions, such as that of the Assistant Director in the President’s Office (Public Service Management), and State Attorney at the Attorney General’s Chambers. She was President of the Tanzania Women Judges Association (TAWJA) from 2015 to 2017 but now serves as a trainer in programs such as ‘Sextortion’. Justice Aboud was one of the founders of the Commission for Human Rights and Good Governance (CHRAGG) in Tanzania and was a member of the Tanzanian task force behind the Local Government reform and Labour Law Reforms.
She has also represented her government in many different human rights conferences and has written reports on Human Rights to the UN and other international monitoring bodies such as the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Justice Aboud has also served as Vice-Chairperson to the Independent Review Electoral Commission in Kenya, a commission created to review the election process in the country.

She represented Africa on the International Association of Women Judges’ (IAWJ) Board of Directors and is a member of the Monitoring Team in the United Nations Mechanism for the International Criminal Tribunal (MICT), where she handled Rwandan genocide cases. She was a Monitor in two court proceedings related to the Jean Ukwinkindi case in Rwanda in April 2015. She is also on the Advisory Board for the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC) Citizen for Justice branch based in Malawi.