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of appointment. Those online reports are updated on a monthly basis (with an approximate
three-month time delay) and may be downloaded; permanent missions thus have
convenient, instant access to often-requested data or reports. The full list of staff of the
Secretariat is now available exclusively on this platform. Since the first release of the tool,
the Office of Human Resources Management has made a number of enhancements, such as
adding reports that show Member States the separations, appointments and forecasted
retirement of their nationals, as well as the forecasted retirement of all P-5 to D-2 staff
members. With HR Insight, Member States therefore have access to information similar to
that contained in a Secretariat report (or in the present one), but at the level of staff
members, unlike composition reports, which show the information at the aggregated level
and are only issued annually.
8.
The table in annex I provides a breakdown of all OHCHR staff members in the
Professional category and above who have been selected through the established
recruitment process (“regular” staff) against both regular budget posts subject to
geographical distribution and extrabudgetary posts, by nationality, grade and sex as at 31
December 2012.
9.
The table in annex II provides a breakdown of the following categories of additional
OHCHR staff in the Professional category and above not included in the table in annex I by
nationality, grade and sex as at 31 December 2012:
(a)
Staff holding appointments of less than one year;
(b)
Staff charged to general temporary assistance funds;
(c)
Staff employed as technical cooperation project personnel.
10.
In paragraph 14, section IX, of its resolution 63/250, the General Assembly reemphasized that the system of geographical ranges was designed to apply to countries
rather than to regions or groups. This principle was recently reiterated by the Joint
Inspection Unit in a comparative analysis and benchmarking framework on staff
recruitment in United Nations system organizations, focusing on – gender balance and
geographical distribution (JIU/NOTE/2012/3). The data in the present report are therefore
provided by country and listed in alphabetical order.
11.
As at 31 December 2012, OHCHR had a total of 573 staff members in the
Professional category and above, of whom 490 are considered regular staff. Of the
Professional staff members, 406 work in Geneva, 18 work in the New York office, while
149 work in 49 different countries in the field.1
12.
Nationals from 116 countries are represented in the Professional and above
workforce, in both geographical and non-geographical posts. The latter comprise
extrabudgetary posts that are not included under the system of desirable ranges (see
paragraph 4 above). Of these 116 nationalities, 28 are underrepresented,2 82 are considered
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2
Country offices, regional offices, human rights advisers and other presences are located in
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon,
Chad, Chile, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia,
Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Madagascar,
Maldives, Mauritania, Mexico, Nepal, the Niger, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Qatar, the
Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Sri Lanka,
Tajikistan, Thailand, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine,
Yemen and the State of Palestine.
Underrepresented at 30 September 2012: Afghanistan, Algeria, Brazil, Central African Republic,
China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Liberia, Lithuania, Mexico,
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
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