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Structures & Institutional Development Structures
Geographical and <strong>Gender</strong> Equity among Professional Staff 53
The ‘Top 5’ by Region and <strong>Gender</strong> and the ‘Top 10’ overall 54
(includes elected officials, excludes language staff)
WEOG 55 58.5% overall (198 staff) 51% men (101) 49% women (97)
Western
European
and Others
Group
‘Top 5’ countries in the region
(range from 15 – 43 professionals)
‘Top 5’ countries by gender
(range from 5 – 27 female professionals)
1 France [43] 56 1 France [27] 57
2 United Kingdom [28] 2 United Kingdom [11]
3 The Netherlands [18] 3 Australia, Germany, the Netherlands [7]
4 Germany [16] 4 Spain, United States of America [6]
5 Canada [15] 5 Belgium, Canada, Italy [5]
Africa 58 17.5% overall (59 staff) 69.5% men (41) 30.5% women (18)
‘Top 5’ countries in the region
(range from 2 – 8 professionals)
‘Top 2’ countries by gender
(range from 1 – 2 female professionals)
1 South Africa [8] 1 The Gambia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, South Africa,
2 Nigeria [5] Uganda [2]
3 Arab Republic of Egypt, Kenya, 2 Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Mauritius,
Senegal [4]
Rwanda, United Republic of Tanzania,
4 The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Zimbabwe [1]
Sierra Leone, Uganda [3]
5 DRC, United Republic of Tanzania [2]
53 Figures as of 31 July 2011. Information provided by the Human Resources Section of the ICC. The ICC figures on geographical
representation exclude language staff and include elected officials.
54 Note that it has not always been possible to establish a ‘Top 5’ or 'Top 10' for gender because for some regions there are not
enough females appointed to professional posts to arrive at a ‘Top 5’ or 'Top 10'. In those cases, a ‘Top 4’, ‘Top 3’, 'Top 2' or 'Top 9'
list has been established.
55 Nationals from the Western European and Others Group account for 58.5% of the overall professional staff at the ICC. For the first
time since 2008, the number of female WEOG appointees has dropped below 50% (54% in 2010, 55% in 2009, 49% in 2008).
56 The number of staff per country is reported in brackets. This year 22% (43 individuals) of the WEOG professionals are French
nationals. This figure is only slightly less than the combined figures of the next two WEOG States with nationals appointed to
professional posts (the United Kingdom and the Netherlands). France accounts for 13% of the overall professional staff at the ICC.
The top three States remain the same and in the same order as in 2010. This year, two countries have been excluded from the
'Top 5' list of staff by region: Australia and the United States of America.
57 The number of female staff per country is reported in brackets. Despite a slight decrease, France is still the country with the
highest number of female appointees and has almost three times the number of female staff than the next country on the list,
the United Kingdom. This year for the first time, with five female appointees each, Belgium and Italy have joined the 'Top 5' by
gender in the WEOG region.
58 Nationals from the Africa region account for 17.5% of the overall number of professional staff at the ICC. This figure is slightly
higher than in 2009 and 2010 (16%). For the fifth year in a row, Africa is the region with the highest percentage of male
appointees to professional positions and with the highest regional male/female differential. In 2011, men represent 69.5% of
the overall number of appointees from this region, a 5.5% decrease from last year. In 2009, this figure was 73%; in 2008, 70%;
and in 2007, it was 64%. Two new States, The Gambia and Uganda, are represented in the ‘Top 5’ tier of African countries with
appointees to the Court. Six new countries, Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Mauritius and Zimbabwe, joined the ‘Top 2'
countries by gender (one female professional).
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