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Mr. Olufemi Elias
Executive Secretary
World Bank Administrative Tribunal


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International Organizations
An Introduction to the Law of the International Civil Service
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International Organizations
An Introduction to the Law of the International Civil Service
A. Legal Instruments

Charter of the United Nations, San Francisco, 26 June 1945.

Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, New York, 13 February 1946, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1, p. 15.

Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies, New York, 21 November 1947, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 33, p. 261.

Charter of the Organization of American States, Bogota, 30 April 1948, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 119, p. 47.

Statute of the Administrative Tribunal of the United Nations as adopted by the General Assembly by resolution 351 A (IV) on 24 November 1949 and amended by resolution 782 B (VIII) on 9 December 1953, by resolution 957 (X) on 8 November 1955, by resolution 50/54 on 11 December 1995, by resolution 52/166 on 15 December 1997,  by resolution 55/159 on 12 December 2000, by resolution 58/87 on 9 December 2003, and by resolution 59/283 of 13 April 2005.

European Convention on Human Rights, Rome, 4 November 1950, European Treaty Series, no. 005.

Statute of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal as adopted by the General Assembly in resolution 63/253 on 24 December 2008 and amended by resolution 69/203 adopted on 18 December 2014 and resolution A/70/112 adopted on 14 December 2015.

B. Jurisprudence
International

Permanent Court of International Justice, Case concerning the Payment of various Serbian Loans issued in France, Case concerning the Payment in Gold of the Brazilian Federal Loans issued in France, Judgement of 12 July 1929, P.C.I.J., Series A, No. 20/21.

International Court of Justice, Judgments of the Administrative Tribunal of the I.L.O. upon complaints made against the U. N. E. S. C. O., Advisory Opinion of 23 October 1956, I.C.J. Reports 1956, p. 77.

World Bank Administrative Tribunal, Louis De Merode, Frank Lamson-Scribner, Jr., David Gene Reese, Judith Reisman-Toof, Franco Ruberl, Nina Shapiro v. The World Bank, Decision No. 1, 6 May 1981.

European Court of Human Rights, Wait and Kennedy v. Germany [GC], No. 26083/94, ECHR 1999.

National

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Broadbent v. Organization of American States, 628 F.2d 27, 202 U.S.App.D.C. 27 (1980), 8 January 1980.

Supreme Court of Canada, Amaratunga v. North Atlantic Fisheries organization, 2013 SCC 66, No. 34501, 29 November 2013.