UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/7/57 21 February 2008 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Seventh 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 Composition of the staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Report of the High Commissioner* I. INTRODUCTION 1. In its decision 2/102, the Human Rights Council, requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue with the fulfilment of her activities, in accordance with all previous decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and to update the relevant reports and studies. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) understands that decision as preserving the previous annual reporting cycles in respect of the present issue, until otherwise decided by the Council. Pursuant to resolution 2005/72 of the Commission on Human Rights, a comprehensive annual report on the composition of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (E/CN.4/2006/103) was submitted to the Commission at its sixty-second session. The High Commissioner therefore submitted her report (A/HRC/4/93) to the Human Rights Council at its fourth session. The current issue of the composition of the staff of OHCHR addresses developments in the composition of OHCHR staff in 2007. * The present report was submitted after the deadline to ensure incorporation of human resources data up to and including 31 December 2007. GE.08-10738 (E) 270208