{"id":1980,"date":"2015-03-23T08:21:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T12:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2020-01-04T05:57:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T10:57:44","slug":"icc-judges-women-at-the-top-at-the-international-criminal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=1980","title":{"rendered":"ICC Judges – Women at the top at the International Criminal Court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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. . WOMEN’S EQUALITY . . <\/p>\n

an article by Hirondelle News Agency<\/a><\/p>\n

As the world celebrated International Women\u2019s Day, the International Criminal Court (ICC) this week got its first all- female presidency. ICC judges on Wednesday elected Judge Silvia Fern\u00e1ndez de Gurmendi of Argentina as President of the Court for a three-year term with immediate effect, and two other female judges as her Vice- Presidents. A trained diplomat, Gurmendi has been a judge at the ICC since 2010.<\/p>\n

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Judge Silvia Fern\u00e1ndez de Gurmendi<\/center><\/p>\n

Judge Joyce Aluoch of Kenya was elected First Vice- President and Judge Kuniko Ozaki of Japan as Second Vice-President. The outgoing presidency was headed by a man (Judge Sang-Hyung Song of South Korea), who was seconded by one female and one male judge.<\/p>\n

This is the first time the ICC has had an all-female leadership. It already has a woman Chief Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda of the Gambia.<\/p>\n

The Presidency \u2013 consisting of the President and the two Vice-Presidents \u2013 plays a key role in providing strategic leadership to the ICC as a whole. According to the ICC, the Presidency \u201ccoordinates with the other organs and seeks the concurrence of the Prosecutor on matters of mutual concern. In accordance with the Rome Statute, the ICC’s governing treaty, the Presidency is responsible for the proper administration of the Court, with the exception of the Office of the Prosecutor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Presidency oversees the activities of the Registry and provides input into a broad range of administrative policies affecting the Court’s overall functioning. Furthermore it conducts judicial review of certain decisions of the Registrar and concludes Court-wide cooperation agreements with States and international organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, six new ICC judges (all men) were also sworn in: Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (France), Piotr Hofma\u0144ski (Poland), Antoine Kesia-Mbe Mindua (Democratic Republic of the Congo), Bertram Schmitt (Germany), P\u00e9ter Kov\u00e1cs (Hungary) and Chang-ho Chung (Republic of Korea). They were elected for nine-year terms during the thirteenth session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute in December 2014.<\/p>\n

(Click here for a Spanish version<\/a> of this article.)\n<\/div>\n

Question for this article<\/div>\n
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Do women have a special role to play in the peace movement? <\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The 30 articles in CPNN linked to this question<\/a> make it clear that women indeed have a special role to play in the peace movement. See the following<\/a> for an historical explanation of why this is true.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

. . WOMEN’S EQUALITY . . an article by Hirondelle News Agency As the world celebrated International Women\u2019s Day, the International Criminal Court (ICC) this week got its first all- female presidency. ICC judges on Wednesday elected Judge Silvia Fern\u00e1ndez de Gurmendi of Argentina as President of the Court for a three-year term with immediate … Continue reading ICC Judges – Women at the top at the International Criminal Court<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,12],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global","category-women","tag-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}