Our working environments have changed. My goal in this post is to avoid using the most popular terms of 2020, such as ‘unprecedented’ or ‘pivot’, but it goes without saying that we all have to continually adapt to more and more working online. Let me offer three observations on how the pandemic has affected work […]

1. Introduction An important part of International Organisations and their functioning is the existence and operation of an association of staff. Like in the private sector, associations of staff play an important role in the balance of interests of international civil servants employed in the international public sector. In fact, Staff Associations, Staff Unions and […]

The relationship between International Organisations (IOs) and their host countries creates some interesting legal and political issues which do not always sit happily together: on the one hand, IOs have broad autonomy and enjoy a remarkable number of privileges and immunities (which are generally a grey area for the host country’s authorities) yet, on the […]

This article was first published in FICSA’s Tip of the Month, December 2020 In October 2019, the UNAT issued a series of rather revolutionary judgments, which were published in February 2020.[1] In these judgements, starting with Dispert & Hoe v. Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the UNAT held that the head of an international organization cannot be […]