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Structures & Institutional Development Structures
Legal Counsel
Appointments to the List of Legal Counsel 66 men women
Overall (403 individuals on the List of Legal Counsel) 67 76.5% 23.5%
‘Top 5’ 68
1 USA [47], 2 UK [45], 3 France [44], 4 DRC [38], 5 Belgium [25]
WEOG 69 (59% of Counsel) 77% 23%
‘Top 5’
1 USA [47], 2 UK [45], 3 France [44], 4 Belgium [25], 5 Canada [19]
Africa 70 (33% of Counsel) 75% 25%
‘Top 5’
1 DRC [38], 2 Kenya [19], 3 Cameroon, Senegal [12], 4 Mali [10],
5 CAR, Nigeria [6]
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66 Figures as of 26 July 2011. Information provided by the Counsel Support Section of the Office of the Registrar.
67 In 2011, 403 individuals are on the List of Legal Counsel. Please note that for four of the appointees (1%), the gender has been
indicated (male) but the nationality is unknown. Of the 403 individuals on the List, 95 are women (23.5%) and 308 are men
(76.5%). This is the first time that the percentage of female lawyers appointed to the List of Legal Counsel has been above 20%
since the List was opened in 2006. In 2010, women were 18% of the List of Legal Counsel, 19% in 2009 and 20% in 2008. The List
of Legal Counsel is overwhelmingly comprised of male lawyers with more than three times the number of men than women
appointed to the List.
68 The number of appointees is reported in brackets.
69 According to these figures, 59% (237) of appointees to the List of Legal Counsel are from the WEOG region. This is a 5.5% decrease
from 2010. This is the largest decrease in the percentage of WEOG appointees to the List of Legal Counsel since 2006 and is offset
by slight increases in appointees from Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean. The country with the highest number of
appointees across all regions continues to be the USA, with 47 appointees in 2011. As in previous years, appointees from the USA,
which is not a State Party, have been included in the calculation for the WEOG region. The composition of appointees changed
slightly in 2011 with women comprising 23% of WEOG Counsel. This represents a modest increase of 1.5% from 2010.
70 According to these figures, 33% (134) of appointees to the List of Legal Counsel are from Africa. For the third year in a row, the
percentage of individuals appointed from this region has increased (26% in 2008, 28% in 2009 and 30% in 2010). Appointments
of nationals from Algeria, Cameroon, Arab Republic of Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Rwanda, Sudan and Zimbabwe, which
are not States Parties, have been included in the calculation for the Africa region. This is the first time that the percentage of
women appointed to the List of Legal Counsel from this region has increased since 2006. This year, the number of African female
appointees (25%) doubled when compared to 2010 (12%). Despite this progress, appointees from Africa are overwhelmingly male
lawyers (75%). From the seven Situation countries, only the DRC is in the ‘Top 5’ list of countries of overall appointees. In total, 68
appointees (17%) are from four of the countries within which the ICC is conducting investigations. The breakdown is as follows:
19 from Kenya, six from CAR, four from Uganda, and one from Sudan. This is the first year that a Sudanese lawyer (male) has
been appointed to the List of Legal Counsel. There are no appointees from Libya nor Côte d’Ivoire which are both new situations
opened for investigation by the ICC in 2011. Of the 68 appointees from Situation countries, nine are women (four from DRC, two
from Kenya, two from CAR and one from Uganda). This figure represents 2% of the total List of Counsel and 13% of the appointees
from Situation countries.
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