Human Rights Committee

105th session (9 - 27 July 2012), Geneva

Deadlines for submission of documents by NGOS and NHRIs for the July session

Please transmit to the HRCtte Secretariat in Geneva reports with respect to States upon which List of Issues, and List of Issues Prior to Reporting (LOIPR), will be adopted (at least in electronic form) by 27 April and by 15 June in hardcopy (10 hardcopies).

The deadline for information on States parties to be examined by the Committee is 15 June (22 hardcopies).

Thanking you in advance for providing documents in a timely fashion.

Representatives of non-governmental organizations wishing to attend the session should register online and follow the instructions for registration and for obtaining a ground pass: http://esango.un.org/irene/index.html?page=viewContent&nr=19183&type=8&section=8

In accordance with the SG's instructions on greening the United Nations, please be informed that no documents will be available in the conference room during the Human Rights Committee’s session in New York. All public documents related to the session will be available on the Committee’s webpage.

Contacts of the Secretariat:

Kate Fox Principi
Secretary of the Human Rights Committee
kfox@ohchr.org

Sindu Thodiyil
HRCtte Administrative Assistant
sthodiyil@ohchr.org

Postal address of the Secretariat Geneva:

Human Rights Committee Secretariat
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
CH 1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
Attention: Kate Fox/Sindu Thodiyil

Consideration of reports and country situations in the absence of a report

The Committee will consider the following reports and country situations during the session:

Note: Schedules are subject to change by the Committee at short notice

Please note that A l C l E l F l R l S refer to the availability of documents in the official United Nations languages, which are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

Consideration of individual communications

The Committee will also consider a number of individual communications in closed meetings during the session.

Country Report Task Forces for the adoption of lists of issues:

Country Report Task Forces will consider and adopt list of issues on the following countries.

States reports	Core documents and States reports and country situation	List of Issues	Information from other sources*
ANGOLA	CCPR/C/AGO/1 E | S		Amnesty International 1 Civil Society Global Initiative IDA IFOR & CPTI Small Arms
CHINA-MACAO	CCPR/C/CHN-MAC/1 C | E | F | S		Global Initiative IDA
GERMANY	CCPR/C/DEU/6 E | F | S	CCPR/C/DEU/Q/6 E | F | S	Amnesty International 1-2 GEW Parallel Report Global Initiative - ESCR ISL-DPI-IDA
HAITI POSTPONED	To be discussed in the absence of a report		Amnesty International 1-2-3 Combined report - LGBT E-F Global Initiative IDA Institute for Justice and Democracy MADRE GBV E-F
PERU	CCPR/C/PER/5 E | F | S		Amnesty International 1 - 2 Article 19 CLADEM E | S COFENADIP Demus Global Initiative PROMSEX

Task Forces (FOR ADOPTION OF LIST OF ISSUES PRIOR TO REPORTING)

Task Forces will consider and adopt list of issues on reports submitted by Afghanistan, Croatia, Israel, New Zealand and San Marino (Optional Reporting Procedure - focused reports based on replies to lists of issues prior to reporting).

States reports	List of Issues Prior to Reporting	Information from other sources*
AFGHANISTAN	CCPR/C/AFG/Q/3 E | F | S	Amnesty International 1-2-3-4 BRD BRD-CCPR Centre FIDH Global Initiative IDA
CROATIA	CCPR/C/HRV/Q/3 E | F | S	Amnesty International 1-2-3-4-5 The Advocates for Human Rights and Autonomous Women’s House Zagreb IDA INTERIGHTS YIHR Cover letter and Report
ISRAEL	CCPR/C/ISR/Q/4 E | F | S	Adalah Amnesty International 1-2-3-4-5 Coalition of children and family DCI-Pal Global Initiative ICHAD IDA IFOR & CPTI NCF
NEW ZEALAND POSTPONED to March 2014	CCPR/C/NZL/Q/6 E | F | S	Amnesty International 1-2 BRD-CCPR Centre Child Advocacy IDA Peace Movement Aotearoa
SAN MARINO	CCPR/C/SMR/Q/3 E | F | S	Global Initiative IDA

* OHCHR is not responsible for the content of information received from other sources