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On 11 January 2022, the Applicant, a Public Information Assistant at the General Service 6 level, with the United Nations Secretariat, filed an application contesting the decision to exclude her from the selection procedure for the recruitment of a Professional 2 level (“P-2”) Associate TV/Video Producer within the Department of Global Communications (the “contested decision”). 2. (...) By 4:00 p.m. on Friday, 30 September 2022, the Respondent is to file further submissions on the reasons why it considers that the Applicant, as a General Service staff member to be excluded from eligibility for applying for a competitive examination for Professional Level positions, including the P-2 Associate TV/Video Producer job opening. 7. By 4:00 p.m. on Friday, 7 October 2022, the Applicant is to file a response to the Respondent’s reply and additional submission.

After viewing closed-circuit television footage from the ICTY’s cameras, the fact-finding panel interviewed the Applicant for the first time on 14 June and then again on 15 June 2011. (...) The Applicant has not demonstrated that she did not intend to steal the bicycle; the close-circuit television footage from inside the ICTY indicated the contrary and, in particular, that the Applicant, as she acknowledged, removed the bicycle from the ICTY premises; b.

On 11 January 2022, the Applicant, a Public Information Assistant at the General Service 6 level, with the United Nations Secretariat, filed an application contesting the decision to exclude her from the selection procedure for the recruitment of a Professional 2 level (“P-2”) Associate TV/Video Producer within the Department of Global Communications (the “contested decision”). 2.

The following facts established by the UNRWA DT are not contested:1 … On 27 September 2000 the Applicant commenced employment with the Agency as a Trades Instructor, Radio and Television Maintenance, Level 3B, at the Siblin Training Centre (“STC”), Lebanon Field Office (“LFO”). (...) … By application dated 27 December 2012, the Applicant appealed to the [UNRWA Dispute] Tribunal, contesting the decision to declare his functions as Trades Instructor, Radio and Television Maintenance redundant and to deny his request to be transferred to the post of Recreation Officer.

On 11 January 2022, the Applicant, a Public Information Assistant at the General Service 6 level, with the United Nations Secretariat, filed an application contesting the decision to exclude her from the selection procedure for the recruitment of a Professional 2 level (“P-2”) Associate TV/Video Producer within the Department of Global Communications (“the Post”). 2. (...) On 7 June 2021, the Applicant sought to be recruited into the Professional category by submitting an application for the non-YPP position of P-2 Associate TV/Video Producer (the Post). 14. On 27 July 2021, the Executive Office of the Department of Global Communications informed the Applicant that her application was not eligible for the P-2 position because she has been removed from the list of successful candidates to the competitive examination. 15.

The Applicant joined the Organization on 1 August 2000 as a Radio Producer at the P-3 level in the French Language Unit, Radio Section, Radio and Television Service, News and Media Division, Department of Public Information (DPI).

Zaqqout says he discovered the second “fact” on 12 December 2018, when a televised interview was posted on the Alkofiya Facebook channel, where the president of the Gaza Local Staff Union stated that UNRWA had reinstated all the staff members who had been separated owing to the emergency appeal, for a total of 68 who had been affected by the decision of the DUO/G dated 1 Annex 1 to the “Agreement between UNRWA Gaza Field Office and Staff Unions Staffing Changes related to the OPT Emergency Appeal in Gaza”. (...) Zaqqout is said to be a statement made on television on 12 December 2018 by an official of the local Staff Union. (...) Zaqqout says that he first became aware of this fact on the day of the television broadcast when it was posted on a Facebook page of the local Staff Union President.

On 15 April 2011, he filed additional submissions, appending summaries in English of local press releases as well as television broadcasts, all of which reported on the Applicant’s press conference of 26 September 2007. (...) The English summaries of local press releases and television broadcasts which the Respondent attached to his written submissions of 15 April 2011 confirm that, during the press conference, reference was made to both OIOS and ICTY.

UNDT/2015/008 Page 5 of 18 was taken to a TV channel for a live interview. The Applicant stressed, however, that while “the rest of the delegation went”, “thinking of [her] employment situation, [her] UN and UNHCR position, [she] refused to attend that interview and […] didn’t go there”. (...) Finally, because of her status as a UNHCR staff member, she took special care during the visit not to get involved in any activity that may have political implications, for instance she refused to attend an interview with the Syrian television and newspapers; b. Moreover, the investigation conducted by the IGO was flawed: i. (...) The fact that she declined to attend a TV interview later that day, because, as she explained, she thought of her “employment situation, [her] UN and UNHCR position” (see para. 11 above), clearly indicates that, indeed, she was very well conscious of the fact that her participation in the WIDF delegation in Syria, even in her personal capacity as a Turkish national, might be in a potential conflict with her functions as a UNHCR staff member.

The following facts are uncontested:1 … The Applicant joined the Organization on 1 August 2000 as a Radio Producer at the P-3 level in the French Language Unit, Radio Section, Radio and Television Service, News and Media Division, Department of Public Information (DPI).