Current Composition of International Tribunals and Monitoring Bodies

GQUAL surveyed a total of 93 international tribunals and monitoring bodies, making a total of 592 positions available. Excerpts of the data covered in Concept Note of the Campaign follow below.

International Tribunals

 

Year Founded	Tribunal	Current Members	Current Women	Total Historical # Members	Total # of Women %
1945	International Court of Justice	16	3 (19%)	106	4 (3.77%)
2002	International Criminal Court	18	6 (33%)	47	19 (40.43%)
1996	International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea	21	3 (14%)	46	4 (8.7%)
	International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (“Mechanism”)	25	6 (24%)	31	7 (22.85%)
TOTAL		80 permanent positions	18 (22.5%)	230	34 (14.78%)

*International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was discontinued in  December 2015

*International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was discontinued in December 2017

Regional Courts

Year Founded	Court	Current Members	Current Women %	Total Historical # Members	Total # of Women %
1952	European Court of Justice	28	6 (21.43%)	100	11 (11%)
1979	Court of Justice of the Andean Community	4	1(25%)
1907	Central American Court of Justice	6	2 (33.33%)
2005	Caribbean Court of Justice	7	1 (14.29%)	11	2 (18.18%)
1991	ECOWAS Community Court of Justice	5	2 (40%)	22	7 (31.82%)
1999	East African Court of Justice	11	1 (9.09%)	23	4 (17.39%)
TOTAL		61 positions	13 (21.31%)	156	24 (15.38%)

Regional Human Rights Tribunals

Year Founded	Tribunal	Current Members	Current Women %	Total Historical # Members	Total # of Women %
1979	Inter-American Court of Human Rights	7	1 (14.29%)	37	4 (10.81%)
1959	European Court of Human Rights	47	16 (34.04%)	191	39 (20.42%)
2004	African Court on Human and People’s Rights	11	6 (54.55%)	29	10 (34.48%)
TOTAL		65 positions	23(35.38%)	257	53 (20.62%)

International Commissions

Year Founded	Commission	Current Members	Current Women %	Total Historical # Members	Total # of Women %
1959	Inter-American Commission on Human Rights	7	4 (57.14%)	73	16 (21.92%)
1987	African Commission on Human and People’s Rights	11	6 (54.55%)	52	19 (36.54%)
2010	ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children	20	16 (80%)
1993	ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights	10	3(30%)	28	8 (28.57%)
TOTAL		48 positions	29(60.42%)	153	43(28.10%)

Hybrid Tribunals

Year Founded	Tribunal	Current Members	Current Women %	Total Historical # Members	Total # of Women %
2003	Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia	16	2 (12.5%)	34	6 (17.65%)
2013	Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone	16	5 (31.25%)
2009	Special Tribunal for Lebanon	11	3 (27.27%)	12	3 (25%)
TOTAL		43 positions	10 (23.26%)	46	9 (19.57%)

*5 Judges are appointed by the Government of Sierra Leona and 10 appointed by the United Nations

*Special Court for Sierra Leone was discontinued in 2013

UN Treaty Bodies

Year Founded	Committee	Current Members	Current Women %	Total Historical # Members	Total # of Women %
1976	Human Rights Committee	18	6 (33.33%)
1985	Committee on Economic,  Social and Cultural Rights	18	6 (33.33%)
1969	Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination	18	9 (50%)
2004	Committee on the Protection of the rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families	14	2 (14.29%)
2010	Committee on Enforced Disappearances	10	3 (30%)
1979	Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women	23	21  (91.30%)
1990	Committee on the Rights of the Child	18	10 (55.56%)
1969	Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	18	6 (33.3%)
1987	Committee Against Torture	10	4 (40%)
2007	Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture	25	12 (48%)
TOTAL		172 positions	79(45.93%)

UN Special Procedures

Year Founded	Working Group/Special Rapporteurship/ Independent Expert	Current Members	Current Women %	Total Historical # Members	Total # of Women %
2000	SR Adequate Housing	1	1 (100%)	3	2 (66.67%)
2000	WG People African Descent	5	1 (20%)	16	7 (43.75%)
1991	WG Arbitrary Detention	5	2 (40%)	19
2011	IExp Promotion of democratic and equitable international order	1	0 (0%)	2	0 (0%)
1998	SR Education	1	1 (100%)	4	2 (50%)
1980	WG Enforced Disappearances	5	1 (20%)	23	2 (8.7%)
2012	SR Safe, Clean, Healthy Environment	1	0 (0%)	1	0 (0%)
1982	SR Extrajudicial, summary, and arbitrary executions	1	1 (100%)	6	2 (33.33%)
1998	SR Extreme poverty	1	0 (0%)	4	2 (50%)
2000	SR Right to food	1	1 (100%)	3	1 (33%)
2005	IExp foreign debt	1	0 (0%)	4	0 (0%)
2010	SR freedom of association	1	0(0%)	3	1 (33.33%)
1993	SR freedom of expression	1	0 (0%)	4	0 (0%)
1986	SR freedom of religion	1	0 (0%)	5	1 (20%)
2002	SR physical and mental health	1	0 (0%)	3	0 (0%)
2000	SR human rights defenders	1	0 (0%)	3	2 (66.67%)
1994	SR independence of judges and lawyers	1	0 (100%)	5	2 (40%)
2001	SR indigenous people	1	1 (100%)	3	1 (33%)
2015	Special Rapporteur on leprosy	1	1 (100%)	1	1 (100%)
2004	SR on IDP’s	1	1 (100%)	4	1 (25%)
2005	WG use of mercenaries	5	2 (40%)	11	6 (54.5%)
1999	SR migrants	1	0 (0%)	4	1 (25%)
2005	SR minority issues	1	0 (0%)	3	2 (66.67%)
2013	IExp older persons	1	1 (100%)	1	1 (100%)
2011	SR truth, justice, reparations	1	0 (0%)	2	0 (0%)
1993	SR discrimination	1	1 (100%)	5	1 (20%)
2007	SR slavery	1	1 (100%)	2	2(100%)
2005	IExp hhrr and international solidarity	1	0 (0%)	3	1 (33%)
2005	SR terrorism	1	1 (100%)	3	1 (33%)
1985	SR torture	1	0 (0%)	6	0 (0%)
1995	SR environmentally sound waste management	1	0 (0%)	5	1 (20%)
2004	SR trafficking	1	1 (100%)	3	3 (100%)
2011	WG hhrr and corporations	5	2 (40%)	10	4 (40%)
2008	SR water	1	0 (0%)	2	1 (50%)
2010	WG discrimination against women	5	5 (100%)	11	11 (100%)
1994	SR violence against women	1	1 (100%)	4	4 (100%)
2012	SR Belarus	1	1 (100%)	2	1 (50%)
1993	SR Cambodia	1	1 (100%)	6	1 (16.67%)
2013	IExp Central African Republic	1	1 (100%)	1	1 (100%)
2004	SR Korea	1	0 (0%)	3	0 (0%)
2012	SR Eritrea	1	1 (100%)	2	2 (100%)
2011	SR Iran	1	0 (0%)	3	1 (50%)
2013	IExp Mali	1	0 (0%)	2	0 (0%)
1992	SR Myanmar	1	1 (100%)	5	1 (20%)
1993	SR Palestine	1	0 (0%)	7	0 (0%)
1993	IExp Somalia	1	0 (0%)	6	1 (16.67%)
1993	IExp Sudan	1	0 (0%)	8	1 (12.5%)
2011	SR Syria*	1	0 (0%)	1	0 (0%)
1990	SR sale of children, prostitution, and pornography	1	1 (100%)	5	3 (60%)
2009	SR cultural rights	1	1 (100%)	2	2(100%)
2014	SR persons with disabilities	1	1 (100%)	1	1 (100%)
2016	IE on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism	1	1(100%)	1	1(100%)
2015	SR on the right to privacy	1	0 (0%)	1	0 (0%)
2016	IE on protection against violence & discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity	1	0 (0%)	2	0 (0%)
2016	SR on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of HR	1	0 (0%)	1	0 (0%)
2016	SR on the right to development	1	0 (0%)	1	0 (0%)
TOTAL	56 Special Procedures	81 positions	34 (41.98%)	247

* Will start once the mandate of the commission of inquiry ends.

*SR Haiti  was discontinued in March 2017.

*IExp Côte d’Ivoire was discontinued in June 2017. 

Other

Year Founded	Body	Current Members	Current Women %	Total Historical # Members	Total # of Women %
1995	World Trade Organization Appellate Body	6	1 (16.67%)	25	4 (16%)
1947	International Law Commission	34	4 (11.76%)	229	7(3.06%)
TOTAL		40 positions	5 (12.50%)	254	11(4.33%)