Till: Styrelsen
Från: Hanna Roberts
Datum: 29 november 2002
PROPOSED STATUTE AMENDMENTS:
The International Council decides:
INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
To amend Article 26:
The International Executive Committee shall consist of the Treasurer and seven regular members, who shall be members of AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, or of a section, or of an affiliated group. The regular members and Treasurer shall be elected by the International Council. Not more than one member of any section or affiliated group or member of AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL voluntarily resident in a country, state, territory or region may be elected as a regular member to the Committee, and once such member has received sufficient votes to be elected, any votes cast for other members of that section, affiliated group or country shall be disregarded.
To amend Article 28.
Members of the International Executive Committee shall hold office for a period of two years and shall be eligible for re-election for a maximum tenure of three consecutive terms.
To amend Article 29:
The Committee may co-opt not more than two additional members who shall hold office until the close of the next meeting of the International Council; they shall be eligible to be reco-opted once. Co-opted members shall not have the right to vote.
To amend Article 30:
In the event of a vacancy occurring on the Committee it may co-opt a further member to fill the vacancy until the next meeting of the International Council, which shall elect such members as are necessary to replace retiring members and to fill the vacancy.
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Explanatory note:
The membership of an International Secretariat (IS) staff member in the International Executive Committee (IEC) is a result of AI's past structure, and served as a mechanism to incorporate the professional advise of the IS staff in policy making process of the IEC.
However, in recent year several developments took place to allow the professional advise of AI's staff into policy-making processes and improvement of the movement's professional management. These include the establishment of the Directors' Forum, the Directors' Task Force and improvements in governance and management structure in the movement and at the IS.
The need for IS representation in the IEC does no longer exists. Moreover, it may overlap with the responsibilities of the Secretary General, the senior management and the Directors' Forum.
Also, In terms of representation of the movement's professional staff it does not accomplish this purpose as it represents only the IS staff (which consists only 30% of the staff in the movement) and does not represents the rest of the movement's staff in the process. This IEC member is not accountable to the ICM (nor to the movement as whole), but rather to the IS staff.
Therefore, it is proposed to change the composition of the IEC to include only treasurer and 7 regular members, elected by the ICM.
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