Wednesday, 23 March 2005
Order of the Day
of the Commission on Human Rights
(Sixty-first session, 14 March - 22 April 2005)
Wednesday, 23 March 2005
Plenary meetings
18th meeting
19th meeting
20th meeting
Item 8:
9.00 a.m.
12.00 p.m.
3.00 p.m.
Conference room XVII
Question of the violation of human rights in the occupied Arab territories,
including Palestine
E/CN.4/2005/26, E/CN.4/2005/27, E/CN.4/2005/28, E/CN.4/2005/29,
E/CN.4/2005/29/Add.1, E/CN.4/2005/G/5, E/CN.4/2005/G/9, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/4,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/67, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/152, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/292,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/308, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/327, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/347
Item 9:
Question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any
part of the world, including:
(a) Question of the human rights in Cyprus
E/CN.4/2005/30, E/CN.4/2005/31, E/CN.4/2005/31/Add.1, E/CN.4/2005/32,
E/CN.4/2005/33 & Corr.1, E/CN.4/2005/34, E/CN.4/2005/35, E/CN.4/2005/36,
E/CN.4/2005/130, E/CN.4/2005/G/2, E/CN.4/2005/G/4, E/CN.4/2005/G/6,
E/CN.4/2005/G/8, E/CN.4/2005/G/10, E/CN.4/2005/G/11, E/CN.4/2005/G/13,
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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E/CN.4/2005/OD.9
GE.05-011214
-2Item 9 (cont’d)
E/CN.4/2005/G/18, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/9, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/30,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/68, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/79, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/93,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/106, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/117, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/131,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/132, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/139, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/154,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/155, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/156, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/157,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/158, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/159, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/160,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/161, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/162, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/163,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/164, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/168, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/169,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/170, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/171, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/173,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/174, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/175, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/179,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/180, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/181, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/191,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/201, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/204, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/208,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/213, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/215, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/216,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/217, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/225, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/227,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/263, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/294, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/297,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/300, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/301, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/309,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/316, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/329, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/330,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/331, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/332, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/343,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/349, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2004/SR.3, 4, 5
List of speakers
Item 8 1.
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Item 8 1.
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Members
Pakistan (on behalf of Organization of the Islamic Conference)
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (on behalf of the Arab Group)
Egypt
Qatar
Luxembourg (on behalf of the European Union)
Cuba
India
Russian Federation
Congo
China
Saudi Arabia
Malaysia
Canada
Indonesia
Mauritania
South Africa
United States of America
Observers
Islamic Republic of Iran
Kuwait
Palestine
Yemen
Oman
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-3Item 8 (cont’d)
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Item 8 1.
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Item 9 -
Switzerland
Jordan
Norway
Bahrain
Syrian Arab Republic
League of Arab States
Morocco
Israel
Tunisia
Algeria
United Arab Emirates
Non-governmental organizations
Joint statement: Al-Haq, Law in the Service of Man, International Federation
of Human Rights Leagues and World Organisation Against Torture
Joint statement: International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination and Arab Lawyers Union
United Nations Watch
International Commission of Jurists
Franciscans International
Joint statement: B’nai Brith International and Coordinating Board of Jewish
Organizations
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
Nord Sud XXI
International Save the Children Alliance
Association for World Education
National Union of Jurists of Cuba
Simon Wiesenthal Centre
Federación de Mujeres Cubanas
Habitat International Coalition
Women’s International Zionist Organization
Médecins du Monde International
World Union for Progressive Judaism
Persons invited
Ms. Christine Chanet, Personal Representative of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights on the situation of human rights in Cuba (item 9)
Item 9 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Members
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (on behalf of the Arab Group)
Pakistan (on behalf of Organization of the Islamic Conference)
Egypt
Malaysia
Pakistan
Cuba
Brazil
/…
-4Item 9 (cont’d)
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Item 9 1.
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Item 9 1.
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Japan
India
Luxembourg (on behalf of the European Union)
Indonesia
Observers
Kuwait
Norway
New Zealand
Lebanon
Cyprus
Nicaragua
Indonesia
Non-governmental organizations
Joint statement: International League for Human Rights and International
Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
Joint statement: Dominicans for Justice and Peace and Dominican Leadership
Conference
Joint statement: Federación de Mujeres Cubanas, National Union of Jurists of
Cuba, Movimiento Cubano por la Paz y la Soberanía de los Pueblos, Centro de
Estudios Sobre la Juventud, Federación Mundial de Juventud Democrática and
Sociedad Cultural José Martí
UN Watch
Baha’i International Community
Amnesty International
International Service for Human Rights
International Federation of Human Rights Leagues
International Commission of Jurists
World Organisation Against Torture
Franciscans International
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
International Federation of Rural Adult Catholic Movements
Centre Europe-Tiers Monde
World Federation of Trade Unions
Human Rights Watch
Organisation of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America
Nord Sud XXI
International Association Against Torture
American Association of Jurists
Movimiento Cubano por la Paz y la Soberanía de los Pueblos
Jammu and Kashmir Council for Human Rights
South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre
International League for Human Rights
International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development
Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts
Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network
Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
/…
-5Item 9 (cont’d)
29. Joint statement: International Helsinki League for Human Rights and
International League for Human Rights
30. Organisation tunisienne de jeunes médecins sans frontières
31. International Save the Children Alliance
32. International Religious Liberty Association
33. Pen International
34. Habitat International Coalition
35. Simon Wiesenthal Centre
36. International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism
37. International Committee for the Respect and the Application of the African
Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (CIRAC)
38. Association for World Education
39. Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organization
40. International Humanist and Ethical Union
41. International Association of Democratic Lawyers
42. Federación Mundial de la Juventud Democrática
43. Médecins du Monde International
44. Centro de Estudios Sobre la Juventud
45. Libération
46. Asian Legal Resource Centre
47. Canadian Council of Churches
48. Jubilee Campaign
49. International Movement for Fraternal Union Among Races and Peoples
50. Nuevos Derechos del Hombre
51. Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights
52. World Union for Progressive Judaism
Other meetings*
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
13.00 - 15.00
League of Arab States
[No title communicated]
Private
E-2064/66
14.00 - 15.00
Permanent Mission of the
United States of America
Informal consultations for Eastern European
Group on Detainees
Private
E-2060
Co-sponsors E-2064/66
only
/…
-6Other meetings, Wednesday, 23 March 2005 (cont’d)
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
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
Poland
Consultations on the draft resolution on the
protection of human rights in the context of
HIV/AIDS
Open-ended
XXIII
15.00 - 18.00
Permanent Mission of the
Netherlands
Informal consultations on the draft
resolution on the human rights
mainstreaming (item 18)
Private
E-2064/66
Type of
meeting
Conference
Room
Other meetings*
Thursday, 24 March 2005
Time
Organized by
Subject of the meeting
10.00 - 11.00
Permanent Mission of
France
Item 11 - Arbitrary detention
Co-sponsors E-2064/66
only
10.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of
Denmark
Omnibus resolution on torture
Co-sponsors
only
XXIII
11.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of
Sweden
Extrajudicial executions
Co-sponsors
only
XXVII
11.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of
Portugal
Draft resolution on economic, social and
cultural rights
Co-sponsors E-2070/72
only
11.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of Chile Draft resolution on the right to remedy
Co-sponsors E-2064/66
only
12.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of
Norway
Consultations on the draft resolution
“Human Rights Defenders” (item 17)
Co-sponsors E-2070/72
only
12.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of
Portugal
Draft resolution on the right to education
Co-sponsors E-2064/66
only
15.00 - 16.00
Permanent Mission of
Australia
Good governance in the promotion and
protection of human rights (item 12)
Co-sponsors
only
15.00 - 17.00
Permanent Mission of
Mexico
First informal consultation on the draft
resolution on the human rights of migrants
Co-sponsors E-2064/66
only
16.00 - 16.30
Permanent Mission of
Australia
National institutions for the promotion and
protection of human rights (item 18)
Co-sponsors
only
XXVII
XXVII
/…
-7Other meetings, Thursday, 24 March 2005 (cont’d)
16.30 - 18.30
Permanent Mission of
Mexico
Informal consultations on the draft
Co-sponsors
resolution on “Women’s equal ownership,
only
access to and control over land and the
equal rights to own property and to adequate
housing”
XXVII
NGO events**
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
12.00 - 13.00
World Federation of Trade
Unions (co-sponsored by
the Organization of African
Trade Union Unity)
Child Labour - issues and challenges
Public
E-2070/72
13.00 - 15.00
Asian Indigenous and
Tribal Peoples Network
Human rights in Nepal
Public
XXIII
13.00 - 15.00
General Arab Women
Federation
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
13.15 - 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
/…
-8Thursday, 24 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
XXIII
12.00 - 15.00
The Becket Fund for
Religious Liberty
Stripping the Body of Belief: The Human
Right to Wear Religious Dress
Public
XXIV
13.00 - 15.00
United Nations Watch
The United Nations and the Middle East:
Time for a balanced approach?
Public
XXIII
13.00 - 15.00
Europe-Third World
Centre (co-sponsored by
the American Association
of Jurists)
Human rights in Iraq and the role of the
United Nations
Public
XXVII
13.00 - 15.00
International Commission
of Jurists (co-sponsored by
FIDH)
The World Court Advisory opinion on the
construction of a wall in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory: legality and realities
Public
XXI
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