A/HRC/RES/28/1
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
10 April 2015
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Twenty-eighth session
Agenda item 2
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner
for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the
High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
28/1. Composition of staff of the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights
The Human Rights Council,
Recalling paragraph 5 (g) of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006,
in which the Assembly decided that the Human Rights Council should assume the role and
responsibilities of the Commission on Human Rights relating to the work of the Office of
the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as decided by the Assembly in
its resolution 48/141 of 20 December 1993,
Taking note of all relevant resolutions on this issue adopted by the General
Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council,
Taking note also of the report of the High Commissioner on the composition of the
staff of the Office of the High Commissioner, 1
Recalling the reports of the Joint Inspection Unit on the follow-up to the
management review of the Office of the High Commissioner2 and on the funding and
staffing of the Office,3
Bearing in mind that an imbalance in the composition of the staff could diminish the
effectiveness of the work of the Office of the High Commissioner if it is perceived to be
culturally biased and unrepresentative of the United Nations as a whole,
Reiterating its concern that, in spite of stated efforts by the Office of the High
Commissioner, the situation whereby one region accounts for 49 per cent remains,
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2
3
A/HRC/27/18.
A/59/65-E/2004/48 and Add.1.
JIU/REP/2007/8.
GE.15-07483 (E)
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