UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/10/45 25 February 2009 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Tenth 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* Introduction 1. The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 7/2 requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to “submit a comprehensive and updated report to the Council in 2009 in accordance with its annual programme of work, following the structure and scope of her report1 and with a special focus on further measures to correct the imbalance in geographical composition of the staff of the Office”. The present report addresses developments in the composition of the staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in 2008. 2. In chapter I of the present report, information is provided on the composition of OHCHR as at 31 December 2008. It includes data on staff members in posts subject to geographic distribution, as well as data on staff in temporary posts funded from extrabudgetary resources or in technical cooperation project posts, neither of which are included in the definition of posts subject to geographic distribution. * The present report was submitted after the deadline to ensure incorporation of human resources data up to and including 31 December 2008. 1 A/HCR/7/57, see also A/63/290*. GE.09-11412 (E) 040309