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Structures & Institutional Development Structures
Overview of Trends CONTINUED
The majority of members of the
Disciplinary Advisory Board, seven out of
nine, are from WEOG. The two non-WEOG
members of the Disciplinary Advisory Board
are from Africa (South Africa) and Eastern
Europe (Serbia). This year, the majority
of the Appeals Board, five out of nine are
non-WEOG members – two from GRULAC
(Venezuela and Colombia), and three from
Africa (Senegal, Ghana and Kenya). The
WEOG members are from Australia, Italy, the
United Kingdom and the United States.
Legal Counsel
As of 26 July 2011, there are 403 individuals
on the List of Legal Counsel of whom 95 are
women (23.5%) and 308 are men (76.5%). This
is the first year that the percentage of female
professionals appointed to the List of Legal Counsel
has increased since 2008. This is primarily due to
the significant increase in the number of women
lawyers from the Africa region appointed to the List
during 2011. Despite this increase, women are still
underrepresented on the List of Legal Counsel with
three times more men than women appointed.
Although the overall geographical breakdown
of the List of Legal Counsel reflects the same
pattern as the past three years, the percentage of
representatives from the WEOG region (59%) is 5.5%
lower than in 2010 when 64.5% of those on the List
were from this region. Between 2008 and 2010,
there was a steady decrease of around 2% each
year of WEOG appointees to the List of Counsel. The
percentage of individuals from the Africa and Asia
regions appointed to the List of Legal Counsel has
increased by 3% each since 2010.
Of the 403 individuals on the List of Legal
Counsel, 18.5% appointees are from countries
that are not States Parties to the ICC. In 2010, 20%
of appointees were from non-States Parties. The
United States of America has the highest number
of appointees (47) for the fifth year in a row. From
the Africa region, non-States Parties represented
on the List are Cameroon with 12 appointments,
Morocco with three appointees, and Algeria, the
Arab Republic of Egypt, Mauritania, Rwanda, Sudan
and Zimbabwe with one appointee each. In Asia,
the only State Party represented on the List of
Legal Counsel is Japan, while the other members
all come from non-States Parties (Malaysia with
three appointees and Kuwait, India, Pakistan and
Singapore with one each).
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