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97th Session (12-30 October 2009), Geneva

Provisional Agenda

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Programme of work

Opening Address

Consideration of reports and country situations (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

States reports	Timetable	States reports and country situations	List of Issues	Written replies	Delegation List & Statement	NGO Information	Concluding Observations	Comments and Follow-up Response	Information on Follow-Up	Letters sent to the State Party
SWITZERLAND	Monday 12 October pm and Tuesday 13 October am SR.2657 SR. 2658	CCPR/C/CHE/3 E \| F \| S	CCPR/C/CHE/Q/3 E \| F \| S	CCPR/C/CHE/Q/3/Add.1 E \| F \| S	List Statement	Franciscans International Organisation Mondiale contre la Torture CPTI International Commission of Jurists	CCPR/C/CHE/CO/3 E \| F \| S	CCPR/C/CHE/CO/3/Add.1 E \| F \| S CCPR/C/CHE/CO/3/Add.2 E \| F \| S	Humanrights.ch	Letter (E) November 2011 Letter (F) 9 May 2011
REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA	Tuesday 13 October pm and Wednesday 14 October am SR.2659 SR.2660	CCPR/C/MDA/2 E \| F \| S	CCPR/C/MDA/Q/2 E \| F \| S	CCPR/C/MDA/Q/2/Add.1 E F CCPR/C/MDA/Q/2/Add.2 E	List Statement	Resource Center for Human Rights CREDO CPTI Amnesty International Joint NGO's statement Resource Center for Human Rights (CReDO) Moldovan Institute for Human Rights (IDOM) National Roma Center Promo-lex	CCPR/C/MDA/CO/2 E \| F \| R \| S	CCPR/C/MDA/CO/2/Add.1 E	Legal Resources Centre (LRC), La Strada, Doina Ioana Straisteanu, Human Rights Lawyer and Promo-LEX Association Moldova (November 2011)	Letter (April 2013)
CROATIA	14 October pm and Thursday 15 October am SR.2661 SR.2662	CCPR/C/HRV/2 E \| F \| S	CCPR/C/HRV/Q/2 E \| F \| S	CCPR/C/HRV/Q/2/Add.1 E \| F \| S	List Statement	Center for Reproductive Rights Amnesty International CPTI COHRE Human Rights Watch Joint NGO's statement	CCPR/C/HRV/CO/2 E \| F \| S	CCPR/C/HRV/CO/2/Add.1 E CCPR/C/HRV/CO/2/Add.2 E \| F \| S		Letter (E) November 2012 Letter (E) November 2011 Letter (E) 9 May 2011
RUSSIAN FEDERATION	Thursday 15 October pm and Friday 16 October am PALAIS DES NATIONS, ROOM XXIII SR.2663 SR.2664	CCPR/C/RUS/6 E \| F \| R \| S	CCPR/C/RUS/Q/6 E \| F \| R \| S	CCPR/C/RUS/Q/6/Add.1 R \| S	List & Additional list Statement	Russian Research Center for Human Rights Russian Research Center for Human Rights Russian Committee Against Torture ICJ FIDH E - F CPTI E - F - S Human Rights Watch Joint NGO's statement Article 19 Amnesty International 1-2-3 Human Rights First MDAC	CCPR/C/RUS/CO/6 E \| F \| R \| S CCPR/C/RUS/CO/6/Add.1 R	CCPR/C/RUS/CO/6/Add.2 E \| F \| R \| S	Russian Federation (October 2011) The Human Rights Centre “Memorial” Interregional Human Rights Association – AGORA International Youth Human Rights Movement Civil Assistance Amnesty International	Letter (E) November 2012 Letter (E) April 2012
ECUADOR	Monday 19 October pm and Tuesday 20 October am SR.2667 SR.2668	CCPR/C/ECU/5 E \| F \| S	CCPR/C/ECU/Q/5 E \| F \| S	CCPR/C/ECU/Q/5/Add.1 S	List Statement	Center for Reproductive Rights Comisión Ecuménica de los Derechos Humanos and CCPR Centre Joint NGO's statement Taller de Comunicación Mujer	CCPR/C/ECU/CO/5 E \| F \| S	CCPR/C/ECU/CO/5/Add.1 S Annex S	CEDHU/CCPR	Letter (S) November 2012 Letter (S) April 2012 Letter (S) 10 May 2011 Letter (S) December 2011

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:

Country Report Task Forces will consider and adopt list of issues on reports submitted by Cameroon, Colombia, El Salvador, Estonia, Israel and Poland.

States reports	Timetable	Core documents and States reports and country situation	NGO information
CAMEROON	Monday 26 October am	CCPR/C/CMR/4 E \| F \| S HRI/CORE/1/Add.109 E \| F \| S	FIACAT Conscience & Peace Tax International
COLOMBIA	Monday 26 October am	CCPR/C/COL/6 E \| F \| S HRI/CORE/1/Add.56/Rev.1 E \| F \| S	Conscience & Peace Tax International War Resisters' International E \| S Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre & Norwegian Refugee Council
EL SALVADOR	Monday 26 October pm	CCPR/C/SLV/6 E \| F \| S HRI/CORE/1/Add.34/Rev.2 E \| F \| S	World Coalition Against the Death Penalty E \| F \| S Conscience & Peace Tax International Human Rights Watch 1 - 2 The Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women's Rights
ESTONIA	Monday 26 October pm	CCPR/C/EST/3 E \| F \| S HRI/CORE/1/Add.50/Rev.1 E \| F \| S	Conscience & Peace Tax International War Resisters' International
ISRAEL	Tuesday 21 October am	CCPR/C/ISR/3 E \| F \| S HRI/CORE/ISR/2008 E \| F \| S	Conscience & Peace Tax International Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counselling COHRE Adalah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and Physicians for Human Rights Adalah FIDH

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