Composition of the staff of the Centre for Human Rights.

1994/56. Composition of the staff of the Centre for Human Rights

The Commission on Human Rights, Recalling Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, which states that the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff and in the determination of the conditions of service shall be the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence and integrity, and that due regard shall be paid to the importance of recruiting staff on as wide a geographical basis as possible, Also recalling that in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action (A/CONF.157/23), part II, paragraph 11, the World Conference on Human Rights requested the Secretary-General and the General Assembly to provide sufficient human, financial and other resources to the Centre for Human Rights to enable it effectively, efficiently and expeditiously to carry out its activities, Taking into account the need to pay particular attention to the recruitment to the Centre for Human Rights of personnel from developing countries and in this regard to improve the current composition of the staff of the Centre on the basis of a more equitable geographical distribution,

1. Reaffirms that Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations should guide the Secretary-General in his policy for the recruitment of the staff of the Organization, in particular taking into account the criterion of equitable geographical distribution;

2. Requests the Secretary-General to adopt the necessary measures to pay particular attention to the recruitment to the Centre for Human Rights of personnel from developing countries, to ensure equitable geographical distribution, and in this regard to give priority in particular to recruitment to high-level and Professional posts and also to the recruitment of women;

3. Also requests the Secretary-General to present to the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session, through the Economic and Social Council, a report on the current geographical distribution of posts in the staff of the Centre for Human Rights in order to evaluate the implementation of the present resolution;

4. Decides to consider this matter at its fifty-first session.

56th meeting
4 March 1994
[Adopted by a roll-call vote of 36 to 15,
with 2 abstentions. See chap. XI.]