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He was concerned about the lack of transparency, consistency and parity in the hiring of temporary assistance staff and supported the recommendation of the Office of Internal Oversight Services in its report on the audit of the arrangements governing the recruitment of temporary assistance staff (A/63/94) that the Department for General

(d) Further integration of quality assurance measures in the delivery of meetings and publishing services through continued enforcement of rigorous recruitment standards for all staff, whether permanent or temporary, and contractors; provision of adequate internal and external training for

Furthermore, in order to ensure the most costeffective service provision, the costs of using staff from

In particular, the Committee was informed that the United Nations

(d) Further integration of quality assurance measures in the delivery of documentation services through continued enforcement of rigorous recruitment standards for all staff, whether permanent or temporary, and contractors, including translation companies; provision of adequate internal and external training for

Among the unexpected benefits already accruing to developing countries as a result of improved communications

Lastly, the Committee on Conferences requested the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session on steps to enhance translation quality, in particular for contractual translation; on the experience, lessons learned and best practices of the main duty stations in performing quality control of contractual translations, including requirements relating to the number and appropriate level

Online collaboration in a low-income-country context12 According to the Bangladeshi Software and Information Services Association, which is one of a growing

The Human Resources Manual establishes remuneration ceilings for consultants, based on their experience.29 In several cases, consultants were classified above the level they were entitled to claim on the strength of their qualifications: grade P-3/P-4 for

The Media Law of Belarus, which came into force in 2008, is restrictive by nature; it establishes a

As regards UNESCO’s support for freedom of expression, some participants noted that it would

As there is currently no in-house capacity for sign language and real-time captioning

Some of the main effects are higher

Two meetings were organized in this context: a workshop on “Media and Civil Society”, convened in cooperation with the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO in Tehran (Islamic Republic of Iran) (January 2002), brought together participants from the Arab and Asia-Pacific regions to debate several issues related to freedom of expression, freedom of the press and civil society; the second, a seminar on

In section V, paragraph 11, of the resolution, the General

They therefore prioritized in the Convention – the cornerstone of international refugee law – both protection from refoulement and a range of the very practical rights which refugees need to be able to exercise to get on with their lives, including: education for their children;