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Calendar of meetings 2012



 January
Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
From : 17-01-2012 To : 17-01-2012
New York
States will elect two new members of the Human Rights Committee which monitors the implementation of the Covenant.

 February
Meeting of heads of human rights components in peace missions
From : 01-02-2012 To : 06-02-2012
New York
Commission on the Status of Women
From : 27-02-2012 To : 09-03-2012
New York
[Economic and Social Council decision 1999/257]

 March
Human Rights Committee, pre-sessional working group on communications, 104th session
From : 05-03-2012 To : 09-03-2012
New York
The PSWM considers complaints submitted to the Committee by individuals who allege their rights under the Covenant have been violated.
Human Rights Committee, 104th session
From : 12-03-2012 To : 30-03-2012
New York
The Committee will consider State party reports from Cape Verde, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Turkmenistan and Yemen.

 April
Consultations with Member States on human rights treaty body strengthening
From : 02-04-2012 To : 03-04-2012
New York
The third and final consultation with States parties to the human rights treaties on proposals to strengthen the human rights treaty bodies, following earlier meetings in Sion and Geneva.

 May
Thirty-first Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
From : 01-05-2012 To : 01-05-2012
New York
States parties will elect one new member of the Human Rights Committee to fill a casual vacancy arising from the death of one member.
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
From : 07-05-2012 To : 18-05-2012
New York

 June
Informal joint event of ECOSOC with the Peacebuilding Commission
From : 13-06-2012 To : 13-06-2012
New York
Informal joint event of ECOSOC with the Peacebuilding Commission on "Promoting Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in Sudan and South Sudan".
Seventeenth Meeting of States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
From : 26-06-2012 To : 26-06-2012
New York
State Parties will elect new members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women which monitors the implementation of the Convention.

 July
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Working Group on Communications
From : 03-07-2012 To : 06-07-2012
New York
The WG considers complaints from individuals who claim their rights under the Convention have been violated.
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, fifty-second session.
From : 09-07-2012 To : 27-07-2012
New York
The Committee will consider State party reports from Bahamas, Bulgaria, Guyana, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mexico, New Zealand and Samoa.
Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and in Practice.
From : 23-07-2012 To : 27-07-2012
New York
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, pre-sessional working group
From : 30-07-2012 To : 03-08-2012
New York
The PSWG will prepare for the next season of the Committee which takes place in Geneva in September.
Human Rights Council, Working Group on the question of the use of mercenaries
From : 30-07-2012 To : 03-08-2012
New York
Human Rights Council, Working Group on the question of the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, sixteenth session.

 August

 September
Thirty-second Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
From : 06-09-2012 To : 06-09-2012
New York
States parties will elect nine new members of the Human Rights Committee which monitors implementation of the Covenant.
General Assembly, sixty-seventh session
From : 18-09-2012 To : 21-12-2012
New York
Third Committee considers human rights reports.

 October

 November
Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
From : 29-11-2012 To : 29-11-2012
New York
Special Meeting in Observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

 December
Human Rights Day
From : 10-12-2012 To : 10-12-2012
New York and Geneva
Fourteenth Meeting of States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child
From : 18-12-2012 To : 18-12-2012
New York
State Parties will elect nine new members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child which monitors implementation of the Convention.

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