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Structures & Institutional Development Structures
ICC Staff
Recruitment of ICC Staff 19 men women
Overall staff 20
(698 including professional and general posts, and elected officials excluding judges) 54% 46%
Overall professional posts 21 (357 including elected officials, excluding judges) 52% 48%
Judiciary Judges 22 42% 58%
Overall professional posts 23 (excluding judges) 39% 61%
OTP overall professional posts 24 54% 46%
Registry overall professional posts 25 52% 48%
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19 Figures as of 31 July 2011. Information provided by the Human Resources Section of the ICC.
20 These figures relate to posts which are occupied as of 31 July 2011. The overall number of staff positions occupied increased
by one individual compared with 2010. The percentage of female and male professionals has slightly changed from 2010 when
there were 53% men and 47% female employees at the Court. Figures from the ICC as of 31 March 2011 for existing positions
indicate there were 702 established filled posts, 193 posts approved as general temporary assistants (GTA), 86 interns, seven
visiting professionals, 49 consultants and 23 elected officials including the Judges, the Prosecutor, the Deputy Prosecutor, the
Registrar and Deputy Registrar. Please note that the last two positions are not elected by States Parties. (See the <strong>Report</strong> of the
Committee on Budget and Finance on the work of its sixteenth session, ICC-ASP/10/5, 17 June 2011, p 35). In total, 761 established
posts were approved by the ASP in the 2011 budget.
21 This year, the total number of occupied professional posts, including elected officials but excluding judges, is 357 or 51% of the
overall staff. Last year, professional posts were 51.5% of the total. After two years during which half of the professional posts at
the Court were occupied by women, this year female professionals are 48% of the total.
22 There are currently 19 judges on the bench of the ICC of which 11 (58%) are women and eight (42%) are men. For the third year
in a row, women are the majority on the bench. Article 36 of the Rome Statute outlines the bench of the ICC as being comprised
of 18 judges. Judge René Blattmann (Bolivia), whose term ended in March 2009, remains on Trial Chamber I until it renders its
decision in the Lubanga case. The election of new judges, to replace the six judges whose terms are finishing in March 2012,
will be held during the tenth session of the Assembly of States Parties from 12 to 21 December 2011 in New York. Of the judges
whose terms will come to completion in 2012, three are women (Judge Diarra – Mali, Judge Odio Benito – Costa Rica, and Judge
Steiner – Brazil). The nomination period for the election of judges was open between 13 June and 16 September 2011. Of the 19
judicial nominees, only two are women of whom one is from the Group of Latin America and the Caribbean region (Olga Venecia
Guerrera Carbuccia – Dominican Republic) and one from the Asia region (Miriam Defensor-Santiago – the Philippines).
23 These figures represent the actual posts filled in the Judiciary. Women constitute 61% of the total professional staff in the
Judiciary. Female professionals have been the majority in the Judiciary since 2007 predominantly in the mid and lower level posts
with women comprising the majority at the P3 level (12 women, nine men). At the more senior levels, male professionals slightly
exceed women in the P4 posts (two men and one woman), while the three P5 posts are occupied by two males (Senior Legal
Adviser, based in The Hague; Chef de Cabinet, based in The Hague,) both from the WEOG region and one woman (Head of the
New York Liaison Office, based in New York) from the Africa region. Until 2011, the Judiciary had reported on the appointments
for three P5 established positions. This year, they reported only on two P5 posts and described the Chef de Cabinet position as
vacant and filled on a GTA contract.
24 This year, there is a 3% decrease in the overall number of women appointed to professional posts in the OTP. This decrease
has been predominantly at the P3 level. The female/male differential remains high in all senior positions with both D1 posts
occupied by men, almost three times the number of male appointees at the P5 level (three women and eight men) and 24%
more males than females appointed at the P4 level (10 women and 16 men). These figures are the same as in 2010. At the P3
level, there are 15 (36.5%) female appointees and 26 (63.5%) male appointees. Female professionals are the majority at the P1
and P2 levels, comprising respectively 69% and 58% of those appointed to these posts.
25 For the past five years, the overall recruitment statistics for professional appointments within the Registry has remained within
the 52% – 48% range. This year there are 52% male and 48% female appointees, in 2010 the figures were 51% and 49% and
in 2009 the figures were 48% and 52%. There are still three times more men than women appointed at the D1 level, and 26%
more men than women appointed at the P3 level. In 2011, there are eight men and seven women appointed at the P5 level, and
women are the majority at the P4 (56%), P2 (53%) and P1 (62%) levels.