Examples of using Overrepresented countries in English and their translations into Russian
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Overrepresented countries.
Meanwhile, 11 of the 13 overrepresented countries were developing countries. .
Exception reports are required to hire candidates from overrepresented countries.
While the percentage of unrepresented and overrepresented countries had decreased slightly, the number of underrepresented countries had increased.
Moreover, in August 1994, UNPROFOR placed an embargo on the deployment of new contractual personnel from certain"overrepresented" countries.
For the period from 2001 to 2006, the results also deteriorated sharply,with the share of staff from overrepresented countries having nearly doubled, from 17 per cent in 2001 to 31 per cent in 2006.
However, five of those seven candidates were from countries within the desirable range, andtwo candidates were from overrepresented countries.
Information on unrepresented,underrepresented and overrepresented countries is made available to hiring managers at the time of selection decision and taken into account in the decision-making process.
She noted with concern, nevertheless, that the number of underrepresented countries had risen from 9 in 2005 to 30 in 2009,while the number of overrepresented countries had increased from 20 to 22 in the same period.
Notes the number of overrepresented countries under the system of desirable ranges, and requests the Secretary-General to provide the General Assembly with analytical information on this issue in the framework of his report on the composition of the Secretariat;
Evidently, through this practice, the imbalance in the geographical distribution of staff has continued,as most of these temporary posts were occupied by nationals from overrepresented countries see table 4.
Her delegation was therefore disappointed to learn of the increase in the number of staff from overrepresented countries, even as many countries remained unrepresented, underrepresented or below their desirable ranges.
His delegation was deeply concerned that, despite the freeze in recruitment, staff were still being recruited at various levels andthe beneficiaries of that practice were in many cases the overrepresented countries.
The report on the composition of the Secretariat(A/49/527)indicated a decrease in the number of both unrepresented and overrepresented countries, with a corresponding increase in the number of Member States within range.
In addition, OHCHR, in its human resources action plan for 2003, has agreed to recruit one staff member from unrepresented or underrepresented countries andto avoid the recruitment of staff from overrepresented countries.
The Advisory Committee notes that the number of unrepresented,underrepresented and overrepresented countries improves only minimally in comparison with the figures for 2009, bearing in mind that in 2010, the General Assembly decided to mandate a change to the method of determining geographic status resolution 65/247.
During that period, of the 220 candidates selected by OHCHR, 21 were recruited from unrepresented and underrepresented countries, 65 from overrepresented countries and 134 from countries within the desirable range.
The Administration commented that one method of ensuring that candidates were not recruited from overrepresented countries was to have a system of temporarily freezing them on the roster, once the geographical representation of the country was within range but well above midpoint, with the option of unfreezing them once that representation fell closer to midpoint.
As shown in the table, 9 per cent of the applicants were selected from unrepresented or underrepresented countries, 32 per cent from overrepresented countries and 59 per cent from countries within the desirable range.
He noted with concern that, between 2000 and 2004, there had actually been a reduction in the percentage of staff from developing countries in posts at the D-1 and D-2 grades and at the grade of Assistant Secretary-General and above,accompanied by a significant increase in the number of overrepresented countries.
As at 30 November 2008, the result of the recruitment exercise for additional posts for the universal periodic review showed a decrease in recruitment from overrepresented countries, an increase from unrepresented or underrepresented countries and a decrease from countries within the desirable range.
The Secretariat should take proactive measures to recruit candidates from unrepresented orunderrepresented countries, but the geographical factor must not lead to discrimination against candidates from overrepresented countries.
Under the recruitment for posts in the doubling of resources exercise, of the 80 posts authorized for the biennium 2006-2007, OHCHR filled 79,decreasing recruitment from overrepresented countries by 4 per cent, marginally decreasing recruitment from unrepresented or underrepresented countries and increasing recruitment from countries within the desirable range.
His delegation had noted with concern that the proportion of successful candidates from unrepresented and underrepresented countries had continued to fall over the previous few years,while the proportion of staff from overrepresented countries had nearly doubled.
Representation is divided into five categories: highly overrepresented countries, represented by 10 or more staff members;overrepresented countries, represented by 6 to 9 staff members; adequately represented countries, represented by up to 5 staff members; underrepresented countries, which have not met their representation quotas; and unrepresented countries. .
The Office of Human Resources Management should more actively explain the existing rules and procedures to departments andmanagers to clarify that selecting candidates from overrepresented countries did not constitute an exception to those rules.
The Board of Auditors, for its part, noted that whereas the proportion of successful national competitive examination candidates from underrepresented and overrepresented countries was, respectively, 34 per cent and zero, the proportion of people actually recruited from unrepresented or underrepresented countries was only 16 per cent, and 25 per cent of the people recruited from the roster came from countries that became overrepresented in the period between the organization of the exam and the moment of their recruitment A/63/5(Vol. I), chap. II, para. 252.
Of the 105 candidates selected, 13 were from countries underrepresented in the Secretariat under the system of desirable ranges, 84 were from countries within the prescribed desirable range and18 were from overrepresented countries.
Those plans include United Nations Secretariatwide geographical distribution targets established by the General Assembly which might differ from those of the Commission on Human Rights,as it may happen that overrepresented countries at the United Nations Secretariat level are un- or underrepresented at OHCHR.
What action is taken in the case of someone applying from an overrepresented country?
