The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP or Commission) is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms Isabelle Lonvis-Rome as its new Commissioner. Ms Lonvis-Rome´s distinguished career spans nearly four decades in the judiciary, government, and international diplomacy. A graduate of France's prestigious École Nationale de la Magistrature, she entered the judiciary at the age of twenty-three — the youngest magistrate in France at the time. She served as a sentence enforcement judge, investigating magistrate, liberty and custody judge, and presided over the assize courts of Nanterre, Versailles, Pontoise, and Chartres. Her judicial career was marked above all by an unwavering commitment to the rights of victims and the most vulnerable: she was instrumental in establishing one of France's first domestic violence units within the Court of Appeal of Versailles, and as a technical adviser to the Minister of Justice she helped create access-to-justice points in prisons and launch a dedicated telephone assistance platform for victims. Her prolific scholarly output — encompassing multiple books on the judicial profession, incarceration, domestic violence, and the rights of women — has further cemented her standing as one of France's foremost legal voices on human rights.
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