Delivering “justice for all”, this is the theme of the 2010 UNJustice’s holiday season cards

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At a time when the United Nations is playing a decisive role in coping with world problems which affect the lives of millions of people, fair play - a combination of observance of the rules, respect for the defenceless, and prevention of adverse behaviour - is the condition under which human cooperation becomes both possible and necessary.

With a view to this, to help these essential features cross the arbitrary and artificial barriers to realize the UN's potential as a positive force in the world, UNJustice devotes itself to no other task with more dedication than to the very task it got its name from: encouraging fair play in the United Nations system of administration of justice.

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Delivering “justice for all”, this is the theme of the 2010 UNJustice’s holiday season cards

16 December 2010

The United Nations is experiencing the formidable challenge of moving from an internal justice system which failed to meet many basic standards of due process established in international human rights instruments, to an order based on the rule of law.

Early indications suggest that progress is being made in several areas, but the success of the process will require additional financial resources and stronger commitment in order to eliminate gaps in access to justice for the Organization’s most vulnerable employees.

At present, the internal justice system of the UN is still failing to provide a proper mechanism of dispute settlement to 40,000 people, or half of the Organization’s working force.

Harmonising the internal justice system of the UN with international legal standards is of paramount importance to maintain the Organization's leadership in promoting the rule of law and human rights.

This holiday season, as part of its campaign for an effectively fair and equitable administration of justice in the United Nations system of organizations, UNJustice has sent 100 numbered postcards, in the hope that the UN internal justice system will provide access to justice to all categories of UN personnel, without discrimination.

'For All'. Our 2010 greeting card says it with a simple message, reminding us that a UN internal judicial system which provides effective remedy to all those who work for the Organization is a powerful opportunity to reinforce the high human values that the UN is striving to embody.

Let us use the year ahead to ensure that the UN internal justice system is truly accessible to all!

List of the 100 recipients of the 2010 holiday season UNJustice postcard

-in alphabetical order by surname-

1 Michèle	Alliot-Marie	French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs
2 Valerie	Amos	UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
3 Louise	Arbour	President & CEO of the International Crisis Group
4 Lance	Armstrong	Athlete and Humanitarian
5 Catherine	Ashton	EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
6 Michelle	Bachelet	UN Women Executive Director
7 Ki-moon	Ban	UN Secretary-General
8 Alicia	Bárcena	UN-ECLAC Executive Secretary
9 Johnston	Barkat	UN Ombudsman
10 José Manuel	Barroso	EU Commission President
11 Irina	Bokova	UNESCO Director General
12 Arthur S.	Brisbane	NYT Public Editor
13 Jerzy	Buzek	EU Parliament President
14 Margaret	Chan	WHO Director General
15 Helen	Clark	UNDP Administrator
16 William J.	Clinton	President William J. Clinton Foundation
17 Hillary	Clinton	US Secretary of State
18 Bernard	Cochemé	UN Joint Staff Pension Fund CEO
19 Sara	Cooke	Director of United Nations Research Institute on Social Development
20 Jean-Paul	Costa	European Court of Human Rights President
21 Howard	Davies	LSE Director
22 Ferruccio	de Bortoli	Corriere della Sera Director
23 Yves	de Kermabon	EULEX Head of Mission
24 Joseph	Deiss	UN General Assembly President
25 Bertrand	Delanoë	Mayor of Paris
26 Paul	Demaret	College of Europe Rector
27 Richard	Descoings	Sciences Po Director
28 Jacques	Diouf	FAO Director General
29 Joan Elise	Dubinsky	UN Ethics Office Director
30 David	Ellwood	Harvard Kennedy School of Government Dean
31 Yassine	Fall	UN-INSTRAW Director
32 Yury	Fedotov	UNODC Executive Director
33 Edward P.	Flaherty	Schwab Flaherty Hassberger Crausaz & Associés Int. Lawyers
34 Even	Fontaine Ortiz	JIU Chair
35 Eric	Fottorino	Le Monde Director
36 Klaus-Dieter	Frankenberger	Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Foreign Affairs Editor
37 Helene D.	Gayle	CARE USA President
38 Patrick	Gérard	Recteur de l’Académie de Paris
39 Brian	Gorlik	Chief of UN the Office of Staff Legal Assistance
40 Vincent	Gray	Mayor -elect of District of Columbia
41 António	Guterres	UN High Commissioner for Refugees
42 James	Harding	The Times Editor
43 Michael	Häupl	Mayor of Vienna
44 Heidi	Hautala	EU Parliament Chair Subcommittee on Human Rights
45 Noeleen	Heyzer	UN-ESCAP Executive Secretary
46 Michel	Jarraud	WMO Secretary General
47 Laurent	Joffrin	Libération Editor
48 Boris	Johnson	Mayor of London
49 Jean-François	Juillard	Reporters sans frontières Secrétaire Général
50 Angela	Kane	UN Under Secretary General for Management
51 Ousmane	Kane	Chief of UN Management Evaluation Unit
52 Stephen	Kisambira	UN Staff Union President
53 Gabriela Carina	Knaul de Albuquerque e Silva	UN-OHCHR Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
54 Harold	Koh	Legal Adviser of the Department of State
55 Ján	Kubiš	UN-ECE Executive Secretary
56 Pascal	Lamy	WTO Director General
57 Debbie	Landey	UN Development Operations Coordination Office Director
58 Alain	Le Roy	UN USG DPKO
59 Matthew	Lee	Inner City Press Editor
60 Bernard-Henri	Lévi	Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle
61 Carlos	Lopes	UNITAR Executive Director
62 Colum	Lynch	UN correspondent for the Washington Post
63 Jan	Mattsson	UNOPS Executive Director
64 Susan	McLurg	ACABQ Chair
65 Roger A.	Meece	MONUSCO Head of Mission
66 John	Micklethwait	The Economist Editor in Chief
67 Asha-Rose	Migiro	UN Deputy Secretary General
68 Efthimios	Mitropoulos	IMO Secretary General
69 Ernst	Mohr	University of St. Gallen President
70 Étienne	Mougeotte	Le Figaro Directeur des rédactions
71 Kanayo F.	Nwanze	IFAD President
72 Patricia	O’Brien	UN Legal Counsel
73 Thoraya Ahmed	Obaid	UNFPA Executive Director
74 Barak	Obama	US President
75 Konrad	Osterwalder	UN University Rector
76 Hisashi	Owada	President of the International Court of Justice
77 Supachai	Panitchpakdi	UNCTAD Secretary General
78 Flavia	Pensieri	UNV Executive Coordinator
79 Marc	Perrin de Brichambaut	OSCE Secretary General
80 Navanethem	Pillay	UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
81 Pedro	Ramirez	El Mundo Director
82 David	Remnick	The New Yorker Editor
83 Kingston	Rhodes	ICSC Chair
84 John	Roberts	Chief Justice of the United States
85 Geoffrey	Robertson	Doughty Street Chambers Founder
86 Mary	Robinson	International Commission of Jurists President
87 Joel	Rosenthal	Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs President
88 Kenneth	Roth	Human Rights Watch Executive Director
89 Alan	Rusbridger	The Guardian Editor
90 Emile	Rwanasirabo	National University of Rwanda Rector
91 Jeffrey D.	Sachs	The Earth Institute Director
92 Nicolaas J.	Schrijver	International Law Association President
93 John	Sexton	NYU President
94 Josette	Sheeran	WFP Executive Director
95 Salil	Shetty	Amnesty International Secretary-General
96 Michel	Sidibé	UNAIDS Executive Director
97 Juan	Somavia	ILO Director General
98 Andrei	Terekhov	Executive director of the United Nations Office of Administration of Justice
99 Joseph M.	Torsella	Nominee for Representative of the US to the UN for UN Management and Reform
100 Jozias	van Aartsen	Mayor of the Hague

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