Letter from UN USG

Letter from the UN Under-Secretary-General for Management, Ms. Angela Kane, in response to the joint FICSA-CCISUA letter on loss of purchasing power of UN salaries and remuneration.
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Dual Career and Staff Mobility

Dual Career and Staff Mobilty
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Tip of the Month - June 2008

Hidden Sanctions
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WFP PSA - New Executive Committee

We are pleased to announce the composition of the new WFP Professional Staff Association as follows:

President: George Aelion

Vice-President: Patricia Kennedy

General Secretary: François Buratto

Treasurer: Waseem Khan

Research & Information Officer: Wanja Kaaria

Staff Council Members: Alain Cordeil (HQ), Giammichele De Maio (HQ, transferring to Ethiopia), Maureen Forsythe (HQ), Stephen Kearney (Johannesburg), Romain Sirois (Haiti), Leo Van der Velden (Bhutan).

Visit FUNSA Myanmar

Visit of the FICSA Regional representative for Asia, Mr. K. Ratnakaran to FUNSA Myanmar after the Cyclone. He is welcomed by Mr. Aye Win Chair FICSA Standing Committee Conditions of Service in the Field and Secretary FUNSA Myanmar – Photo
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Security report released

The U.N. security chief resigned Tuesday over recent terror blasts in Algeria that killed 17 U.N. staffers -- responding to a report that found weaknesses in the world organization's overall security operations.

The report by an expert panel concluded that there was ''ample evidence that several staff members up and down the hierarchy may have failed to respond adequately to the Algiers attack, both before and after the tragedy,'' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said (see more info.)

The bombings at U.N. offices and another government building in December killed 17 U.N. staffers and injured 40 others, many seriously.

David Veness, the U.N.'s undersecretary-general for security and safety, voluntarily offered his resignation and ''was willing to shoulder full responsibility for any security lapse that may have occurred'' Ban said.

The report said, "As an employer, the UN continues to be legally and morally responsible for the security and safety of its staff and their dependents and for its property."

The report can be accessed here:
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Public Service Day

Message from Mr. Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze United Nations Under-Secretary-General Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, on the occasion of United Nations Public Service Day 23 June 2008

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Message adressé par M. Sergei A. Ordzhonikidze, Secrétaire général adjoint de l'ONU, Directeur général de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève, à l'occasion de la Journée des Nations Unies pour la fonction publique, le 23 juin 2008

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UNESCO - New Staff Union (STU)

We are pleased to announce the composition of the new UNESCO Staff Union (STU) as follows:

President: Ms. Marie-Thérèse Conilh de Beyssac

Members: Guiomar Alonso Cano (Spain), Cathy Bruno-Capvert (Cape Verde), Ronan Grippay (France), Frederick Russell-Rivoallan (Canada).

International Organizations as a Profession:

UNU-WIDER publication - International Organizations as a Profession: Professional Mobility and Power Distribution.
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ICSC 66th session, Addis Ababa

Marta Leichner Boyce, Nasr Ishak, Joseph Varghese, Valerie Seguin, Claude Jamet, Edmond Mobio at the reception organised by UNECA, in Addis Ababa, during the ICSC 66th Session.
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HRM blog

For the latest news and views about human resources management from the point of view of international civil servants, visit
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