Thursday, 24 March 2005
Order of the Day
of the Commission on Human Rights
(Sixty-first session, 14 March - 22 April 2005)
Thursday, 24 March 2005
Plenary meetings
21st meeting
Item 9:
10.00 a.m.
Conference room XVII
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/CRP.5, 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, 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,
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.10
GE.05-011216
-2Item 9 (cont’d)
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.4/2005/NGO/350, E/CN.4/Sub.2/2004/SR.3, 4, 5
22nd meeting
3.00 p.m.
Conference room XVII
Item 9 (b)*: Question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any
part of the world, including:
(b) Procedure established in accordance with Economic and Social
Council resolutions 1503 (XLVIII) and 2000/3
* In closed session.
List of speakers
Item 9 1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Item 9 -
Members
Cuba
Kenya
Republic of Korea
Canada
Eritrea
United States of America
Indonesia
Australia
Non-governmental organizations
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations
International Human Rights Association of American Minorities
European Union of Public Relations
International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations
Centro de Estudios Europeos
Centrist Democratic International
Interfaith International
International League for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples
Transnational Radical Party
International Federation for the Protection of the Rights of Ethnic, Religious,
Linguistic and other Minorities
11. Union des Juristes Arabes
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-3Item 9 (cont’d)
12. Joint statement: Pax Romana, Catholic Institute for International Relations &
Franciscans International
13. Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
14. Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization
15. Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy
Research & Education)
16. African Society of International and Comparative Law
17. Movement Against Racism and For Friendship Among Peoples
18. Unión Internacional de la Juventud Socialista
19. Amnesty International
Other meetings*
Thursday, 24 March 2005
Time
Organized by
Subject of the meeting
Type of
meeting
Conference
Room
9.00 - 11.00
League of Arab States
[no title communicated]
Private
XXVII
10.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of Denmark Omnibus resolution on torture
Co-sponsors
only
XXIII
11.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of Sweden
Extra-judicial 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 on Co-sponsors E-2070/72
“Human Rights Defenders” (item 17)
only
12.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of Portugal
Draft resolution on the right to
education
13.00 - 15.00
League of Arab States
[no title communicated]
15.00 - 16.00
Permanent Mission of Australia
Good governance in the promotion and Co-sponsors
protection of human rights (item 12)
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
16.30 - 18.30
Permanent Mission of Mexico
Informal consultations on the draft
resolution on “Women’s equal
ownership, access to and control over
land and the equal rights to own
property and to adequate housing”
Co-sponsors
only
Co-sponsors E-2064/66
only
Private
E-2064/66
XXVII
XXVII
/…
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NGO events**
Thursday, 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
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
Persons invited
Tuesday, 29 March 2005
Mr. Vitit Muntarbhorn, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (item 9)
Mr. Adrian Severin, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus
(item 9)
Mr. Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in
Myanmar (item 9)
Mr. Miloon Kothari, Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right
to an adequate standard of living (item 10)
Mr. Paul Hunt, Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of physical and mental health (item 10)
Mr. Okechukwu Ibeanu, Special Rapporteur on the adverse effects of the illicit
movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of
human rights (item 10)
Mr. Vernor Muñoz Villalobos, Special Rapporteur of the right to education (item 10)
/…
-5-
Other meetings*
Tuesday, 29 March 2005
Type of
meeting
Conference
Room
Time
Organized by
Subject of the meeting
10.00 - 11.00
Permanent Mission of Canada
Right to freedom of and expression
Co-sponsors E-2064/66
only
11.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of France
Item 11 - Enforced or involuntary
disappearances
Open-ended E-2064/66
11.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of Chile
Draft resolution on the right to remedy
and reparations (item 11)
Co-sponsors
only
XXVII
13.00 - 14.00
OHCHR
General briefing with the Special
Rapporteur of the situation of human
rights in Myanmar
Public
XVIII
13.00 - 15.00
Permanent Mission of Cuba
“Talk with wives of the five Cuban
political prisoners in U.S. jails”
Public
XXVII
14.00 - 15.00
Permanent Mission of Malaysia
Consultations on draft resolution on the Open-ended
right to development (item 7), unilateral
coercive measures (item 10) and
international cooperation (item 17)
E-2060
15.00 - 18.00
Permanent Mission of Mexico
Informal consultations on the draft
resolution on the human rights of
migrants (item 14)
Co-sponsors
only
XXIII
15.00 - 16.30
Permanent Mission of
Switzerland
Informal consultations
Private
XXIV
15.00 - 17.00
Permanent Mission of Norway
Consultations on the draft resolution
“Human Rights Defenders” (item 17)
Open-ended
XXVII
NGO events**
Tuesday, 29 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 rights in the African context
Public
E-3025
12.00 - 14.00
International League for Human Human rights in Belarus
Rights (co-sponsored by FIDH)
Public
XXI
13.00 - 15.00
Fédération internationale des
droits de l’homme (cosponsored by OMCT,
Franciscans International,
Amnesty International &
FIACAT)
Public
XXIV
Droits de l’homme au Togo
/…
-6NGO events, Tuesday, 29 March 2005 (cont’d)
13.00 - 15.00
Centrist Democratic
International (co-sponsored by
Liberal International)
13.00 - 15.00
Human rights in the world: Cuba
Public
XIX
International Commission of
Human rights in Nepal
Jurists (co-sponsored by Human
Rights Watch & Amnesty
International)
Public
XXII
13.00 - 15.00
International NGO Forum on
Indonesian Development
Human rights in Indonesia
Public
E-3025
13.00 - 15.00
International Youth and Student
Movement for the United
Nations (co-sponsored by
Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom)
Human rights in Iraq
Public
XX
13.00 - 15.00
Save the Children Alliance
Protection of children in wars and
disasters
Public
XXIII
13.30 - 15.30
Transnational Radical Party
Human rights in the Caucus region
Public
E.2072/72
14.00 - 15.00
Forum-Asia
“International trade: How does it affect
human rights ? Why should we be
interested? What can we do?”
Public
XVIII
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