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Draft Calendar of Human Rights Meetings for the Year 2006
Calendrier provisoire des réunions pour 2006
Calendario provisional de las reuniones para 2006
(updated on 27 July 2006)

 


Date

Title of meeting

Session n°

Venue/Room

9 - 13 Jan. Open-ended WG on the Right to Development 7th PN XVII

9 - 27 Jan.

 - Committee on the Rights of the Child
 - Comité des droits de l'enfant
 - Comité de los Derechos del Niño

41th

PW Grd floor

11 - 13 Jan. - Meeting of the five Independent eminent Experts to follow the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action 3rd PN
16 - 27 Jan. - Intergovernmental Working Group on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action 4th PN

16 Jan.

- Commission on Human Rights (CHR): Election of the Bureau

62nd

PN

25 - 27 Jan. - Expert seminar on pemanent sovereignty - PN XXIV

30 Jan. - 3 Feb.

- Working Group, Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Groupe de travail, Comité des droits de l'enfant
- Grupo de Trabajo, Comité de los Derechos del Niño

42nd

PW Grd floor

30 Jan - 3 Feb.

- Board of Trustees of the United Nations Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
- Conseil d'administration du fonds de contributions des Nations Unies sur les formes contemporaines d'esclavage
- Junta de Síndicos del fondo fiduciario de contribuciones voluntarias para luchar contra las formas contemporáneas de esclavitud

11th PW

6 - 10 Feb.

 

- Working Group on Situations (1503 procedure)
- Groupe de travail sur les situations (procédures 1503)
- Grupo de Trabajo sobre Situaciones (procedimientos 1503)

.

PW 1 st floor

6 - 17 Feb.

- Open-ended working group to consider options regarding the elaboration of an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

3rd

PN

13 - 17 Feb.

- Board of Trustees of the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations
- Conseil d'Administration du
Fonds de contributions volontaires des Nations Unies pour les populations autochtones
- Junta de Síndicos del Fondo de Contribuciones Voluntarias para las Poblaciones Indígenas de las Naciones Unidas

19 th

PW 1 st floor

13 - 17 Feb. (until 1.00 p.m. - Working Group on the use of mercenaries 2nd PW Grd floor

[To be confirmed]

- Informal Expert consultations on right to food

6 th

PW [To be confirmed]

20 Feb.-10 March

 

- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- Comité sur l'élimination sur la discrimination raciale
- Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial

68th

PW Grd floor

.

- Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

11 th

NY

6 - 10 Mar.

- Pre-sessional WG on Communications - HR Committee

86th

NY

13 - 31 Mar.

- Human Rights Committee
- Comité des droits de l'homme
- Comité de Derechos Humanos

86th

.

13 Mar- 21 April

- Commission on Human Rights
- Commission des droits de l'homme
- Comisión de Derechos Humanos

62nd

PN / GA Hall & XVII

5 - 11 April - BoT, UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture 25th PW 1st floor

10 - 13 April

- Inter. Co-ordinating Committee of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC)

1st

PN XXIII

24 - 28 April - Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances 78th PN IX

24 - 28 April

- Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

4th

PW Grd Floor

 

1 - 19 May

- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Comité sur des droits économiques, sociaux et culturels
- Comité de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales

36th

PN

 

1 - 19 May

- Working Group of the Committee against Torture
- Groupe de travail du Comité contre la torture
- Grupo de Trabajo del Comité contra la Tortura

36th

PW 1st floor

8 - 12 May

 

- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Groupe de travail sur la détention arbitraire
- Grupo de Trabajo sobre la detención arbitraria

45th

PN XXV

 

15 May - 2 June

- Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Comité des droits de l'enfant
- Comité de los Derechos del Niño

42nd

PW Grd floor

22 - 26 May - Pre-sessional WG- CESCR 37th PN XXV

5 - 9 June

- Working Group, Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Groupe de travail, Comité des droits de l'enfant
- Grupo de Trabajo, Comité de los Derechos del Niño

43rd

PW Grd floor

13 - 16 June

- Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights
- Conseil d'administration du fonds de contributions volontaires pour la coopération technique en matière de droits de l'homme
- Consejo de Administración del Fondo de Contribuciones Voluntarias para la Cooperación Técnica en materia de Derechos Humanos

25th

PW 1st floor

19 - 23 June

 

- Meeting of Special Rapporteurs / Representatives / Independent Experts and Chairpersons of WG of the CHR

13th

PW Grd floor

19 - 23 June

- Meeting of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies (incl. 5th Inter-Committee meeting)

18th

PW 1 st floor

19 - 30 June - Human Rights Council
- Conseil des Droits de l'Homme
- Consejo de Derechos Humanos
1st Geneva

3 - 7 July

- Pre-sessional WG on Communications - HR Committee

87th

PW Grd floor

10 - 28 July

- Human Rights Committee
- Comité des droits de l'homme
- Comité de Derechos Humanos

87th

PW Grd floor

24 - 28 July - WG on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances 79th PN IX

31 July - 4 Aug.

- WG on Indigenous Populations

24th

PN

31 July - 18 Aug.

- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- Comité sur l'élimination sur la discrimination raciale
- Comité para la Eliminación de la Discriminación Racial

69th

PN XI

3 - 4 Aug.

- Social Forum (Inter-sessional Forum on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)

4th

PN XXVI

7 - 25 Aug.

 

- Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
- Sous-commission de la promotion et de la protection des droits de l'homme
- Subcomisión para la Promoción y Protección de los Derechos Humanos

58th

PN XVIII

8 - 11 Aug
(pm only)

- Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery

31st

PN

8 - 11 Aug
(am only)

- Working Group on Minorities

12th

PN

 

.

- In-sessional WG on the administration of justice

.

.

.

 

- In-sessional WG to examine the working methods and activities of transnational corporations

.

.

. - In-sessional WG on promotion and protection of human rights while combatting terrorism . .

28 Aug. - 1 Sept.

 

- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Groupe de travail sur la détention arbitraire
- Grupo de Trabajo sobre la detención arbitraria

46th

PW 1 st floor

7 Sept - Meeting of States parties to elect nine members of the Human Rights Committee 25th NY

28 Aug. - 8 Sept

- WG on Communications (1503 procedure)

34th

PW 1 st floor

11 - 29 Sept

- Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Comité des droits de l'enfant
- Comité de los Derechos del Niño

43rd

PW Grd floor

18 Sept-6 Oct - Human Rights Council 2nd PN XVII

2 - 6 Oct

- Working Group, Committee on the Rights of the Child
- Groupe de travail, Comité des droits de l'enfant
- Grupo de Trabajo, Comité de los Derechos del Niño

44th

PW Grd floor

9 - 13 Oct - Pre-sessional Working Group on Communications - Human Rights Committee 88th .

16 Oct - 3 Nov.

- Human Rights Committee
- Comité des droits de l'homme
- Comité de Derechos Humanos

88th

PW Grd floor

30 Oct - 3 Nov.
(pending decision of Committee)

- Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

5th

PW 1 st floor

6 - 24 Nov.

- Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Comité sur des droits économiques, sociaux et culturels
- Comité de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales

37th

PW Grd floor

6 - 24 Nov.

 

- Committee against Torture
- Comité contre la torture
- Comité contra la Tortura

37th

PW 1 st floor

7 - 10 Nov.

- Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights
- Conseil d'administration du fonds de contributions volontaires pour la coopération technique en matière de droits de l'homme
- Consejo de Administración del Fondo de Contribuciones Voluntarias para la Cooperación Técnica en materia de Derechos Humanos

26th

PN Grd floor

15 - 24 Nov.

- Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
- Groupe de travail sur la détention arbitraire
- Grupo de Trabajo sobre la detención arbitraria

47th

PN IX

20 Nov. - 1 Dec.

 

- WG on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances

80th

.

 

27 Nov - 1 Dec.

- Working Group of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,
- Groupe de Travail du Comité sur les droits économiques, sociaux et culturels
- Grupo de Trabajo del Comité de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales

38th

PW Grd floor

27 Nov - 8 Dec. - Human Rights Council 3rd PN
10 Dec. - Human Rights Day    
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