28/22 Follow-up review of the management and administration of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - Report of the Joint Inspection Unit - Note by the Secretariat

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Human Rights Council Twenty-eighth 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

Follow-up review of the management and administration of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Report of the Joint Inspection Unit

Note by the Secretariat

1. The Human Rights Council, in its resolution 22/2, requested the Joint Inspection

Unit to undertake a comprehensive follow-up review of the management and administration

of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in particular

with regard to its impact on the recruitment policies and the composition of the staff, and to

submit a report thereon and containing concrete proposals for the implementation of

resolution 22/2 to the Council at its twenty-seventh session.

2. The Joint Inspection Unit informed the Secretariat that the review mandated by the

Human Rights Council in its resolution 22/2 had been included in its programme of work

for 2014, and that, given its own procedural requirements, the Unit would submit the report

to the Council at the twenty-eighth session.1

3. The report of the Joint Inspection Unit (JIU/REP/2014/7) is available from the

website of the Unit at www.unjiu.org/en/reports-notes/Pages/Reports-and-Notes.aspx.

1 See A/HRC/27/19.