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Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, in a message on International Women’s Day on 8 March 1995, affirmed that, at the United Nations, the promotion and protection of women’s rights are central objectives. As Chief administrative officer of the Organization, he was working to promote gender equality among UN staff. As signs of improvement, he said that from 1990 to 1994, the number of women in senior-level posts subject to geographical distribution had increased by 96.2 per cent. Recent tabulations revealed that an almost equal number of men and women were being promoted by the Appointment and Promotion body.
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Seymour Maxwell Finger and Nina Hanan, ‘The United Nations Secretariat Revisited’, 1980, Ralph Bunche Institute on the UN, City University of New York, p. 14; International Herald Tribune, 11 April 1995.
‘Advancement of the Status of Women in the United Nations Secretariat in an era of “Human Resources Management” and “Accountability”: A New Beginning?’, prepared by Erica-Irene Daes, Doc. JIU/REP/94/3, 1994, p. 2.
See Secretariat News, April 1994, p. 13.
DPI Press Release SG/SM/5240 WOM/738, 8 March 1994, p. 4.
See ‘Report of Ad-Hoc Meeting on Survivor Benefits’, Association of Former International Civil Servants, Geneva, 15 February 1995, and UN Observer, March 1995.
See Robert K. Robinson, Billie M. Allen, Geralyn McClure Franklin and David L. Duhon, ‘Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Review of the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of All Parties’, Public Personnel Management, spring 1993. The French court case is in the International Herald Tribune, 18–19 January 1992.
See UN Special, Geneva, April 1993; UN Observer, April 1994; Human Rights Tribune, March/April 1994, which includes a partial transcript of the report of Justice Mella Carroll to the Secretary-General dated 21 January 1994.
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Beigbeder, Y. (1997). Sex Discrimination and Sexual Harassment. In: The Internal Management of United Nations Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13958-3_10
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