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Campaign Communique No. 3
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Campaign Communique No. 1

Campaign Communique No. 2

Women On the Court Now!
What To Know / What To Do
[Francais] [Espanol]

Chart Showing Gender Distribution in International Institutions

CICC Fact Sheet on Election of Judges

Fair Representation
A short guide to ICC Elections
[Francais]

Women and Public International Litigation,  Jan Linehan. Backgroud paper for meeting co-sponsored by the Project on International Courts and TribunalsT and Matrix Chambers

Background 

Historically there have been glaring disparities in gender representation among elected posts at the international level... More...

Criteria

- persons of high moral character
- nationals of a State Party
- fluent in English or French 
- established competence
in criminal law and procedure
OR international law 
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Election Rules 

The ICC elections will be the first elections in an international judicial institution with minimum voting requirements for women and men. Click here for details...

Share Your Evaluation Criteria... Please share  any questionnaires or evaluation criteria used to assess the qualifications of judicial candidates in your national system. Each national system is different and the candidates will need to be evaluated according to the individual context.

Send your criteria or questionnaires to caucus@iccwomen.org and tell us if it is appropriate to  post them on this website as a resource.

• Criteria for the Assemment of Qualifications of Candidates for the International Criminal Court, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Parliamentarians for Global Action and Women's Caucus for Gender Justice

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Quote...

"May I take this opportunity to encourage State Parties to nominate suitable women candidates to allow for fair representation of female and male judges on the (ICC) as the Rome Statute requires? Let us not thwart some of the most important advances on gender justice that are embodied in the Statute by failing to act in practical ways to implement them."

- Sergio Vieira de Mello,
UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights
to the 3rd Committee
of the UN General Assembly
4 November 2002

The elections of judges, prosecutor and deputy prosecutors of the International Criminal Court will be a critical first step toward the Court's establishment and functioning. As the first highly visible public act of this new institution, the elections must yield a panel of judges that is regionally diverse and which has a 'fair representation' of women and men judges as required by the Rome Statute.

Gender :  7 Women, 11 Men
Region:   3 from Africa
                  3 from Asia
                  7 from WEOG
                  4 from Latin Am/Caribbean
                  1 from Eastern Europe

Expertise:  10 from List A (criminal law)
                     8 from List B  (international law)

The following persons have been elected to serve as judges on the world's first permanent international criminal court:

Share your feedback or information about the national nomination process and/or candidates by emailing us at: caucus@iccwomen.org

Media

Women Rule at Hague Court
News 24, South Africa
5 February 2003

Press Statement:
On Election of 6 Women as Judges for the ICC
Women's Caucus for Gender Justice
- 4 February 2003

Press Statement:
On the Imminent Election of Judges for the ICC
Women's Caucus for Gender Justice
- 31 January 2003

Press Release:
ICC Nominations Closed: Women Make Up Less than Fourth of Nominees  [Francais]
Women's Caucus for Gender Justice - 3 December 2002

Press Release:
ICC Nomination Period Draws to a Close: Governments Violate Rome Statute and By-pass Valid Nominations of Women [Francais]
 Women's Caucus for Gender Justice - 28 November 2002

Press Release:
Civil Society Expresses Concern over Nominations of Judges to International Criminal Court
 Coalition for the International Criminal Court - 29 November 2002
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Fiji nominating controversial ex-judge to criminal court,
Agence France Press, 6 November 2002

Women's Groups in Fiji Criticize Government's Nomination,
Radio New Zealand International, 5 November 2002

Rights NGO's Win Fight for Equal Representation of Judges, Terra Viva, 9 September 2002

International Criminal Court: Formula Approved for Choosing Judges, UN Foundation Wire, 6 Sept. 2002

Press Release: 
Women's Groups Alarmed at Lack of Female Candidates on Roster of Nominations to ICJ

Press Release:
Women's Groups Applaud Swiss Announcement of First Female Candidate

Links

Government Contact Information

UN Missions Contact Information

Coalition for the International Criminal Court

Official ICC website

International Association of Women Judges

Other Related Links

Women's Human Rights Net

WEDO's 50/50 Campaign

Urgent Letters

ACTION LETTER !

Open Letter to All States Parties Regarding Gender Parity on the ICC
4 February 2003

Open Letter to All States Parties Regarding Minimum Voting Requirements
29 January 2003

Letter of Women's Caucus for Gender Justice to All States Parties Regarding Two Candidates of Concern
31 January 2003

Letter of Women's Caucus for Gender Justice to President of ICC Assembly of States Parties
[Español]
27 November 2002

Letter of the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice to the President of the Argentina  [Español]
27 November 2002

Letter of the Women's Caucus to Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations 
27 November 2002

Carta al Presidente Eduardo Duhalde de Margarita Stolbizer, Diputada de la Nación 
27 November 2002

Call to Action:
Kvinna till Kvinna Calls Civil Society to Action

Action Letter:
Nomination of Qualified Women
as Judges
September 2002