A/HRC/9/18 page 7 scheduled for discussion at the eighth session of the Human Rights Council in June 2008, yet the opening of the Council session came only six weeks after the end of the first working group session and two weeks from the end of the second. Therefore, these documents could not ipso facto meet the 10-week deadline. 13. Temporary staff is recruited to assist with translation of documentation for anticipated periods of peak workload as forecast from the 10-week submission deadline. However, those temporary resources are contracted for a specific period. As a result, when documentation is submitted late, these additional resources are not fully in phase with the excess workload. Such was the case for the universal periodic review working group documentation. In this context, it should be noted that there is a limited supply of experienced translators, editors and interpreters in Geneva due to the heavy competition with the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization and other Geneva-based organizations, not to mention the European institutions, which reserve conference-servicing staff two to three years in advance. This depletes the local and European freelance markets during certain periods of the year. The usual lead time for recruiting freelance translation staff is several months, thus making it very difficult to accommodate changing schedules and the late submission of documents with temporary staffing. 14. Finally, it should be noted that the backlog of summary records to be translated for official meetings has grown each year from 1998 to the present. The backlog includes drafting records for 97 meetings (not including the 2008 Human Rights Council meetings) and more than 87,000 pages (including only summary records pending from 1998-2007) remain to be translated - the equivalent of having 131 translators and revisers work for one full year. The continuing growth in this backlog reflects the inadequacy of the existing capacity in the Languages Service to meet the ever-increasing workload. 4. Additional human rights conference activities 15. The Human Rights Council has been generating new mandates since its inception. In nearly all cases, the General Assembly has requested the Secretary-General to accommodate these new activities from within existing resources. This was the case of the working group on the review of mandates (which was allotted 20 working days of meetings), and the working group on the agenda (which was allotted 10 working days of meetings), as well as the high-level task force on the implementation of the right to development (to which Council resolution 4/4 assigned two additional working days of meetings). The same applies to the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. The General Assembly, in its resolution 62/156, adopted on 18 December 2007, requests the Secretary-General to provide the resources necessary, from within existing resources of the United Nations, for the Committee to meet for two separate sessions in 2008, the first session to be of two consecutive weeks’ duration and the second session to be of one week’s duration. 16. As shown in detail in annex I, several new human rights bodies and activities have been established since 2006, all of which produce large additional volumes of documentation (including summary records, in some cases) to be processed, for which commensurate resources have not been allocated. As from early 2009, two new treaty bodies, namely the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Committee on Enforced Disappearances will also require full conference services.