Tuesday, 22 March 2005
Order of the Day
of the Commission on Human Rights
(Sixty-first session, 14 March - 22 April 2005)
Tuesday, 22 March 2005
Plenary meetings
16th meeting
17th meeting
10.00 a.m.
3.00 p.m.
Conference room XVII
Mr. Joschka Fischer, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany, will address the
Commission at 11.00 a.m.
Mr. Gabriel Entcha-Ebia, Garde des Sceaux, Minister of Justice and Human Rights
of the Republic of Congo, will address the Commission at 11.15 a.m.
Item 7:
The right to development.
E/CN.4/2005/24, E/CN.4/2005/25, E/CN.4/2005/63, E/CN.4/2005/133,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/21, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/71, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/78,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/90, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/101, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/113,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/134, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/143, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/188,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/189, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/240, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/242,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/262, E/CN.4/2005/WG.18/2
Notes
 All delegations scheduled to take the floor must provide the Secretariat beforehand with 25 copies of their
statements. For general distribution, 250 copies are needed.
 Identity photo-badges valid for the duration of the session may be obtained by all delegations, if needed, from the
UNOG 9 Security and Safety Section at the villa “Les Feuillantines”(13, avenue de la Paix) from 8.00 a.m. to
5.00 p.m. upon presentation of a copy of their letter of accreditation and an identity document.
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List of speakers
Item 7 -
Persons invited
Mr. Ibrahim Salama, Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on the Right to
Development
Item 7 1.
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Item 7 1.
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Item 7 1.
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Members
Malaysia
China (en behalf of the Like-Minded Group)
Pakistan
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (on behalf of the Arab Group)
Luxembourg (on behalf of the European Union)
Cuba
Ecuador
Nigeria
Mexico (on behalf of GRULAC)
India
Congo
Egypt
Ethiopia (on behalf of the African Group)
Qatar
Armenia
Ethiopia
Observers
Islamic Republic of Iran
Kuwait
Yemen
Oman
Iraq
World Bank
Angola
Zambia
Jordan
Algeria
Republic of Moldova
Holy See
Syrian Arab Republic
Non-governmental organizations
Joint statement: New Humanity, the International Organization for the
Development of Freedom of Education and the International Young Catholic
Students
Joint statement: Franciscans International and the Dominicans for Justice and
Peace
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-3Item 7 (cont’d)
3.
4.
5.
6.
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8.
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10.
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12.
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14.
15.
16.
17.
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19.
20.
International Federation of Rural Adult Catholic Movements
Centre Europe-Tiers Monde
World Federation of Trade Unions
Union de l’action féminine
Movimiento Cubano por la Paz y la Soberanía de los Pueblos
Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network
National Union of Jurists of Cuba
International Indian Treaty Council
World Peace Council
Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy
Research & Education)
Joint statement: International Federation of University Women, the Pan
Pacific and South East Asia Women’s Association International, the
International Council of Women, the Worldwide Organization for Women, the
Inter- African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of
Women and Children, the Women’s International League for Peace and
Freedom and the Women’s International Zionist Organization
International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations
Federación de Mujeres Cubanas
International Human Rights Association of American Minorities
International Committee for the Respect and the Application of the African
Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
World Muslim Congress
Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organization
Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action
Other persons invited
Mr. Soren Jessen-Petersen, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo
Other meetings*
Tuesday, 22 March 2005
Type of
meeting
Conference
Room
Open-ended
XXI
Time
Organized by
Subject of the meeting
11.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of
Argentina
Open-ended consultations on the draft
resolution “The right to the truth” (item 17)
11.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of Brazil Informal consultations on the draft
resolution “Racism and democracy”
12.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of
France
Extreme poverty (item 10) – Francophonie
Co-sponsors
only
XXVII
13.00 - 14.00
Permanent Mission of the
United States of America
Briefing for NGOs
NGOs only
XXI
13.00 - 15.00
League of Arab States
[no title communicated]
Private
E-2064/66
Open-ended E-2064/66
/…
-4Other meetings, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 (cont’d)
13.15 - 14.30
Permanents Missions of
Germany and Mexico cosponsored by COHRE
Clean Water for the Poor?
Making the Human Right to Water a
Reality
Public
XXIV
14.00 - 15.00
Permanent Mission of the
United States of America
Informal consultations for Asian Group on
Detainees
Private
E-2060
14.00 - 15.00
OHCHR
Meeting of the CHR Expanded Bureau with
NGOs
Public
XXI
15.00 - 16.00
OHCHR/DPI
Panel discussion around the book entitled
“Security for All: A Tribute to
Sergio Vieira de Mello”
Public
V
15.00 - 17.00
Permanent Mission of Brazil Informal consultations on draft resolution
“Access to medication”
Co-sponsors
only
XXIII
15.00 - 17.00
Permanent Mission of
Switzerland
Negociation: Human rights and transitional
justice
Open-ended
XXI
15.00 - 18.00
Organization of the Islamic
Conference
Ambassadorial meeting of the OIC Group
Private
XXIV
16.30 - 18.00
Permanent Mission of
Romania
Informal consultations on the draft
Co-sponsors
resolution “Democracy and the rule of law”
only
(item 11)
XXVII
Wednesday, 23 March 2005
Type of
meeting
Conference
Room
Private
XXI
Time
Organized by
Subject of the meeting
9.00 - 10.00
Permanent Mission of the
United States of America
Informal consultations for GRULAC on
Detainees
10.00 - 11.00
Permanent Mission of
France
Item 11 - Arbitrary detention
13.00 - 14.00
Permanent Mission of the
United States of America
Informal consultations for African Group on
Detainees
Private
E-2060
13.00 - 14.00
Permanent Mission of
Australia
Meeting of the JUSCANZ Group
Private
XXVII
14.00 - 15.00
Permanent Mission of the
United States of America
Informal consultations for Eastern European
Group on Detainees
Private
E-2060
14.00 - 15.00
OHCHR
General briefing with the Special
Rapporteur on the situation of human rights
in the Palestinian territories occupied since
1967
Public
XXVII
Co-sponsors E-2064/66
only
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-5Other meetings, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 (cont’d)
15.00 - 17.00
Permanent Mission of
Poland
Consultations on the draft resolution on the
protection of human rights in the context of
HIV/AIDS
15.00 - 18.00
Permanent Mission of the
Netherlands
Informal consultations on the draft
resolution on the human rights
mainstreaming (item 18)
Co-sponsors
only
XXIII
Private
E-2064/66
NGO events**
Tuesday, 22 March 2005
Time
Organized by
Subject of the meeting
Type of
meeting
Conference
Room
9.00 - 10.00
Children’s Human Rights
Caucus
Children’s human rights briefings
Public
E-3025
9.00 - 10.00
Conference of NGOs in
Consultative Relationship
with the United Nations
(CONGO)
NGO strategy session
Public
XXVII
13.00 - 15.00
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights protection in the fight against
terrorism: What Role for the Commission
on Human Rights?
Public
XXIII
13.00 - 15.00
Interfaith International
The Ancient Culture of Sindh (Pakistan); its
Civil and Political Rights
Public
XXII
13.00 - 15.00
International Institute for
Rights of the Child in Asia: Need for
Non-Aligned Studies (coChild’s Right Education
sponsored by World Peace
Council and Indian Council
of Education)
Public
E-2070/72
13.15 - 14.30
COHRE (co-sponsored by
the Permanent Missions of
Germany and Mexico)
Public
XXIV
Clean Water for the Poor? Making the
Human Right to Water a Reality
Wednesday, 23 March 2005
Time
Organized by
Subject of the meeting
Type of
meeting
Conference
Room
9.00 - 10.00
Children’s Human Rights
Caucus
Children’s human rights briefings
Public
E-3025
9.00 - 10.00
NGO Women’s Caucus
Women’s human rights issues
Public
XXVII
/…
-6NGO events, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 (cont’d)
13.00 - 15.00
Asian Indigenous and
Tribal Peoples Network
The Case of Nepal
Public
XXIII
13.00 - 15.00
General Arab Women
Federation
Violations of Human Rights in the
Occupied Arab Territories
Public
XXII
13.00 - 15.00
Interfaith International
The Clash of Civilisations:
a Seminar with members of the NGO
Committee Against Racism (CONGO)
Public
E-2070/72
13.00 - 15.00
International League for
Human Rights
(co-sponsored by Human
Rights Watch)
Human rights in Uzbekistan and
Turkmenistan (item 9)
Public
XXI
13.00 - 15.00
Lutheran World Federation
A Hitchhiker’s guide to the Commission ant
its Mechanisms
Public
XXIV
15.00 - 17.00
CIRAC
Simon Kimbangu & intolérance religieuse
Public
XXIV
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