A/HRC/45/4 I. Introduction 1. The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 42/1, requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit a report on the geographical composition of the staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to the Council at its forty-fifth session. 2. Chapter II of the present report includes information as at 30 June 2020 on staff members in regular budget posts subject to geographical distribution, as well as data on staff in temporary posts funded from general temporary assistance and extrabudgetary resources, or in technical cooperation project posts, none of which are included in the definition of posts subject to geographical distribution. 3. Chapter III contains a description of the measures for improvement taken by the High Commissioner under the staff selection systems in force in 2020 (ST/AI/2010/3, ST/AI/2010/3/Amend.1, ST/AI/2010/3/Amend.2 and ST/AI/2010/3/Amend.3).1 II. Composition of the staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 4. The recruitment of staff members to posts subject to geographical distribution is governed by the system of desirable ranges at the United Nations Secretariat level. For that purpose, Member States are grouped into four categories: unrepresented, underrepresented, within range and overrepresented. A Member State is considered unrepresented when none of its nationals, throughout the entire Secretariat, is serving in a post subject to geographical distribution and filled in accordance with the established selection process. 2 It is underrepresented when the number of its nationals appointed to such posts throughout the entire Secretariat is below the lower limit of the desirable range. It is within range when the number of its nationals appointed to such posts is between the upper and lower limits of the desirable range, and it is overrepresented when the number of its nationals appointed to such posts within the entire Secretariat exceeds the upper limit of the desirable range. The representation status of Member States is affected by many factors, in particular the turnover of staff and changes in the scale of assessments. OHCHR is the Secretariat entity with the largest number of staff with geographical status (see A/74/82, table 23). 5. The report on the composition of the Secretariat is submitted annually by the Secretary-General to the General Assembly in accordance with a number of resolutions, the most recent being Assembly resolutions 66/234, 67/255, 68/252, 71/263 and 72/254. 6. The most recent report of the Secretary-General on the composition of the Secretariat (A/74/82) covers the period from 1 January to 31 December 2018. OHCHR is part of the Secretariat and the breakdown of its geographical composition has to be seen against the breakdown of the overall distribution within the Secretariat. 7. Since 2011, Member States have had regular online access to information similar to that presented in the report of the Secretary-General, through the HR Insight online reporting tool (A/74/82, paras. 7–8). The platform has recently been decommissioned by the Office of Human Resources in favour of management dashboards. Clarity is being sought on how permanent missions can access staff demographic information in the future. 8. The table in annex I provides a breakdown of all OHCHR staff members in the Professional and higher categories who have been selected through the established 1 2 2 ST/AI/2016/1, ST/AI/2016/1/Amend.1 and ST/SGB/2016/2/Rev.1 (on staff selection and the managed mobility system) are currently on hold. Unrepresented in the Secretariat as at 31 March 2020: Andorra, Angola, Belize, Brunei Darussalam, Cabo Verde, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Equatorial Guinea, Kiribati, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Libya, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru, Palau, Qatar, Saint Lucia, Sao Tome and Principe, Timor-Leste, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates and Vanuatu.