UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/HRC/4/93 22 February 2007 Original: ENGLISH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Fourth session Item 2 of the provisional agenda IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251 OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL” 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 decision 2/102 of 6 October 2006, 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”. On the current issue of the composition of the staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), a comprehensive annual report (E/CN.4/2006/103) was submitted to the sixty-second session of the Commission on Human Rights pursuant to resolution 2005/72. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights understands decision 2/102 as preserving the previous annual reporting cycle in respect of this issue until otherwise decided by the Council. The current report to the Human Rights Council accordingly addresses developments in respect of the composition of OHCHR staff during the year 2006. 2. In addition, the present report on the composition of the staff of OHCHR is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 61/159 of 19 December 2006, which requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to submit a comprehensive and updated report, on the basis of paragraph 26 (e) of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2005/72, to the Human Rights Council at its fourth session and to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session. GE.07-10955 (E) 060307