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WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL ELECTIONS
Fact Sheet
- Until 2001, no woman had ever served on the 34-member International Law Commission established in 1947
- Only one woman has ever served as a judge on the International Court of Justice
- No woman has ever held or been nominated for the post of UN Secretary-General
- As of early 2000, only nine women were serving as Heads of State or Government [1]
- In 1998, 8 per cent of the world's cabinet ministers were women[2]
- In 1999, women represented 11 per cent of parliamentarians worldwide[3]
- The United Nations fell far short of reaching its goals of achieving "an equitable balance between women and men staff members at managerial and professional levels in all substantive areas, as well as in field posts" by the year 2000 as set out in the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women to the Year 2000 [4]
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[1] “The World’s Women 2000: Trends and Statistics,” United Nations Statistics Division.[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.
4] See Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women to the Year 2000, adopted by the Nairobi Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women, UN Doc. A/CONF.116/12 (1985).