Dear Colleagues,

Compliments of the Season to you all and please accept my best wishes for health, happiness, and success in the year ahead. As I start my new role as President of the Staff Union, I wish to acknowledge how fortunate I was to have had Fraser Mcilwraith as my mentor.

As a staff re...

Dear colleagues,

After five years as the President of the Staff Union, and 22 years with the ICTY and the Mechanism, I hang up my hat and pass the reins to our new Staff Union President, Gloria Otieno. I could not have hoped for a more capable and committed successor.

Gloria is not only compet...

On Monday 6 May 2019, elections were held to form the new Staff Union Committee. Staff of the Mechanism elected seven members from Arusha, two from Kigali and ten from The Hague. 

Here under the list of the newly elected representatives:
Tom ADAMI
Sari AZIZ
Sarah BENTEFRIT
Ramon BOUWKNECHT
Bram...

Can working from home -- or at least away from the office -- bring freedom and stress-free job satisfaction? Not always, according to a new study in the European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology. Management researchers say people with high emotional stability and autonomy are best...

Recruiters from Unique Multilingual recently visited MICT in The Hague. The event was well attended and was the opportunity to learn more about the Dutch job market, and how to approach it. The presentation with usefeful tips can be found here.

According to a report published in The Lancet yesterday, sexual harassment and assault at UNAIDS threatens the UN agency and draws attention to an endemic problem. Critics say the UN's internal system is flawed and call for external oversight.
See full report here

At the UN's recent Global Town Hall, MICT Staff Union requested assistance from the Secretary-General with the MICT's budget crisis. Staff Rep Gloria Otieno addressed the SG from our Arusha offices. Text of the exchange is below: 

Unofficial Transcript
SG’s Global Town Hall on 17 January 2018
 
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The Pension Fund presentation, delivered by representatives from the UNJSPF, took place last week and was followed by 50 individual consultations. 

Click here to download the three presentation files |file1| |file2| |file3|

More pictures available here

From 31 October through 2 November, the ICTY/MICT Staff Union, represented by its President, Fraser Mcilwraith, and a member of the Staff Union Committee, Ljubomir Vukosavlevic, participated together with 14 other staff unions from across the system in CCISUA mid-term meeting, held in New York...