Florence Ndepele Mwachande Mumba (born in Mazabuka, Zambia in 1948), commonly referred to as Florence Mumba, is a Zambian judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, also known as the Khmer Rouge Tribunal or the Cambodia Tribunal.
[1] She has also previously served in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and as well as a Supreme Court Judge in Zambia.
In October of that year, she was appointed as a High Court Judge in Zambia, being the first woman to serve in that capacity.
[4][5] In 1992, as a member of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, she participated in drafting a resolution to the UN General Assembly, to have rape included as a war crime in the jurisdiction of war crimes tribunals.
[3][4] In November 2020, a panel of international lawyers chaired by Mumba and Philippe Sands drafted a proposed international law crimilalising ecocide, the destruction of ecosystems.