Wednesday, 30 March 2005
Order of the Day
of the Commission on Human Rights
(Sixty-first session, 14 March - 22 April 2005)
Wednesday, 30 March 2005
Plenary meetings
25th meeting
26th meeting
Item 10:
10.00 a.m.
3.00 p.m.
Conference room XVII
Economic, social and cultural rights.
E/CN.4/2005/37, E/CN.4/2005/38, E/CN.4/2005/39, E/CN.4/2005/40, E/CN.4/2005/41,
E/CN.4/2005/42 & Add.1, E/CN.4/2005/43, E/CN.4/2005/44, E/CN.4/2005/45 & Add.1,
E/CN.4/2005/47 & Add.1-2, E/CN.4/2005/48, E/CN.4/2005/48/Add.1 & Corr.1,
E/CN.4/2005/48/Add.2-3, E/CN.4/2005/49, E/CN.4/2005/50, E/CN.4/2005/51
& Add.1, 2, 3, 4, E/CN.4/2005/52, E/CN.4/2005/63, E/CN.4/2005/131, E/CN.4/2005/G/7,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/10, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/20, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/22,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/57, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/58, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/59,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/60, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/80, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/94,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/97, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/110, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/115,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/128, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/129, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/142,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/147, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/148, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/153,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/180, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/185, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/192,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/218, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/219, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/230,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/243, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/248, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/256,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/257, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/264, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/281,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/282, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/283, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/286,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/298, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/304, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/311,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/324, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/328, E/CN.4/2005/NGO/340,
E/CN.4/Sub.2/2004/20
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.12
GE.05-011220
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Persons invited
Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque, Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Open-ended working
group to consider options regarding the elaboration of an optional protocol to the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Mr. Bernards Andrew Nyamwaya Mudho, Independent Expert on the effects of
structural adjustment policies and foreign debt on the enjoyment of human rights
Mr. Arjun Sengupta, Independent expert on the question of human rights and extreme
poverty
Mr. Jean Ziegler, Special Rapporteur on the right to food
List of speakers
Item 10 - Members
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Eritrea
Mauritania
Argentina
Nepal
Republic of Korea
Kenya
Armenia
Item 10 - Observers
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
Kuwait
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Islamic Republic of Iran
Yemen
Iraq
World Bank
UN-Habitat
Vietnam
Switzerland
Chile
World Health Organization
Venezuela
UNAIDS
Algeria
Azerbaijan
Morocco
Cameroon
UNESCO
Portugal
Holy See
African Union
/…
-3Item 10 - Non-governmental organizations
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
Joint statement: International Commission of Jurists, Amnesty International
and Colombian Commission of Jurists
Joint statement: Dominicans Justice, Dominican Leadership Conference and
Pax Christi International
Joint statement: Federación de Mujeres Cubanas and National Union of Jurists
of Cuba
Joint statement: International Federation of University Women, Pan Pacific
and South East Asia Women’s Association International, Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom, Inter-African Committee on
Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children, Women’s
International Zionist Organization, International Council of Women,
International Council Jewish of Women, World Council of Catholic
Women’s Organizations, Soroptimist International, Femmes Africa
Solidarité, Zonta International, Socialist International Women, Federation of
American Women’s Clubs Overseas and All India Women’s Education Fund
Association
Joint statement: Association of World Education and International Humanist
and Ethical Union
International Federation of Human Rights Leagues
World Organisation against Torture
Franciscans International
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
International Organization for the Development of Freedom of Education
International Federation of Rural Adult Catholic Movements
Centre Europe-Tiers Monde
Organisation of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America
American Association of Jurists
Transnational Radical Party
FIAN – Foodfirst Information and Action Network
International Women’s Rights Action Watch
Federación de Asociaciones de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos
Humanos
International Fellowship of Reconciliation
Japanese Workers’ Committee for Human Rights
Movement against Racism and for Friendship among Peoples
Federación Mundial de la Juventud Democrática
EarthJustice
Centro de Estudios Sobre la Juventud
Libération
Habitat International Coalition
Jubilee Campaign
Sociedad Cultural José Martí
International Movement for Fraternal Union among Races and Peoples
Marangopoulos Foundation for Human Rights
Centro de Estudios Europeos
Lutheran World Federation
Centrist Democratic International
Permanent Assembly for Human Rights
Organization of African Trade Union Unity
Society for Threatened Peoples
/…
-4Item 10 (cont’d)
37. International Federation for the Protection of the Rights of Ethnic, Religious,
Linguistic and other Minorities
38. Mouvement international ATD Quart Monde
39. International Union of Socialist Youth
40. World Peace Council
41. Liberal International
42. Open Society Institute
43. International Alliance of Women
44. European Union of Public Relations
45. International Association against Torture
46. Ius Primi Viri International Association
47. Movimiento Cubano por la Paz y la Soberanía de los Pueblos
48. International Committee for the Respect and the Application of the African
Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
49. International Educational Development
50. Human Rights Council of Australia
51. International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations
52. Organization for Defending Victims of Violence
53. Union des juristes arabes
54. International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development
55. Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action
56. Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization
57. Tebtebba Foundation (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy
Research & Education)
58. Joint statement: Rights & Democracy, International Federation of Human Rights
Leagues, FIAN-Food First Information & Action Network, Franciscans
International, Greenpeace International, Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy,
Lutheran World Federation and World Young Women’s Christian Association
59. Asian Legal Resource Centre
60. Human Rights Advocates
61. International Association of Democratic Lawyers
62. International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations
63. Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development
64. Pax Romana
65. International Federation of Social Workers
66. Indigenous World Association
67. International Human Rights Association of American Minorities
68. MADRE
69. World Muslim Congress
70. Asian Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Network
71. Joint statement. Pax Romana and International Young Catholic Students
72. Rural Development Foundation of Pakistan
73. Association tunisienne pour l’auto-développement et la solidarité
74. Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
75. Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
76. Rural Reconstruction Nepal
77. Commission of the Churches on International Affairs of the World Council of Churches
78. Anti-Slavery International
79. Nord Sud XXI
80. Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
81. Himalayan Research and Cultural Foundation
82. International Religious Liberty Association
/…
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Other meetings*
Time
Organized by
Subject of the meeting
Type of
meeting
Conference
Room
9.00 - 10.00
Permanent Mission of Canada
Canada & Canadian NGOs
Private
E-2060
9.00 - 10.00
Permanent Mission of France
[No title communicated]
Private
XXII
9.00 - 11.00
Permanent Mission of Mexico
Informal consultations on the draft
Co-sponsors
resolution “Women’s equal
only
ownership, access to and control over
land and the equal rights to own
property and to adequate housing”
XXIII
10.00 - 11.00
Permanent Mission of the Czech
Republic
Special procedures – Inter-sessional
activities
Open-ended
XXII
10.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of Canada
Resolution on impunity (item 17)
Co-sponsors E-2064/66
only
10.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of Canada
Mass exoduses (item 14)
Co-sponsors E-2070/72
only
10.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of Denmark
Omnibus resolution on torture
Co-sponsors
only
XXVII
11.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of Canada
Resolution on violence against
women (item 12)
Co-sponsors
only
E-2060
12.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of Brazil
Informal consultations on the draft
Open-ended
resolution on democracy and human
rights
XVIII
12.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of Argentina
Second consultation on the draft
resolution “The Right to Truth”
(item 17)
Open-ended
XXIV
12.00 - 13.00
Permanent Mission of Latvia
Resolution on the work of the SubCommission (item 16)
Co-sponsors E-2070/72
only
13.00 - 14.00
Permanent Mission of Australia
Good governance
Private
XXI
13.00 - 14.00
OHCHR
General briefing with the Special
Rapporteur on the right to food
Public
XXII
13.00 - 15.00
OHCHR
General briefing with the Special
Rapporteur on the right to education
Public
XXIV
14.00 - 15.00
OHCHR
General briefing with the Special
Rapporteur on the right of everyone
to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and
mental health
Public
XXII
14.00 - 15.30
OHCHR
Meeting of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights
with NGOs
Public
XXI
/…
-6Other meetings, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 (cont’d)
15.00 - 16.00
Permanent Mission of Norway
Human rights defenders (item 17)
Co-sponsors
only
E-2060
15.00 - 17.00
Permanent Mission of Switzerland Meeting on human rights situation in
Nepal
Private
XVIII
15.00 - 17.00
Permanent Mission of Brazil
15.00 - 17.00
Permanent Missions of Mexico and Informal consultations on the draft
Guatemala
resolution “Human rights and
indigenous issues”
Co-sponsors
only
XIX
15.00 - 18.00
Permanent Mission of Cuba
Informal consultations on draft
resolutions
Open-ended
XXIII
15.00 - 18.00
African Group
[No title communicated]
Private
XXIV
16.00 - 17.30
Permanent Mission of Italy
Development of public information Co-sponsors
activities in the field of human rights
only
(item 17)
E-2060
16.30 -18.00
Permanent Mission of Romania
Informal consultations on the draft
resolution “Democracy and the rule
of law” (item 11)
Co-sponsors
only
XXII
17.00 - 18.00
Permanent Mission of France
Extreme poverty (item 10)
Open-ended
XXVII
18.00 - 19.00
Permanent Mission of France
[No title communicated]
Private
E-2070/72
Draft resolution on the “Access to
Open-ended
medication in the context of
HIV/AIDS, tubertulosis and malaria”
XXVII
NGO events**
Time
Organized by
Subject of the meeting
Type of
meeting
Conference
Room
9.00 - 10.00
Children’s Human Rights Caucus
Children’s rights briefings
Public
E-3025
9.00 - 10.00
NGO Women’s Caucus
Women’s human rights issues
Public
XXVII
10.00 - 13.00
Association mondiale pour
l’Ecole instrument de paix
“Nouveaux enjeux pour les
défenseurs des droits de l’homme”
Public
XXI
13.00 -15.00
International Human Rights
Association of American
Minorities
“Terrorism in the face of selfdetermination”
Public
XXIII
13.00 - 15.00
Centre on Housing Rights and
Evictions (co-sponsored by
International Commission of
Jurists)
Briefing for NGOs on an optional
protocol to the ICESCR
Public
E.3025
13.00 -15.00
Lutheran World Federation
“A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the
Commission and its mechanisms”
Public
E.2070/72
/…
-7NGO events, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 (cont’d)
13.00 - 15.00
International Commission of
Jurists (co-sponsored by
Colombian Commission of
Jurists)
Rule of law and human rights in
Colombia (item 3)
Public
XI
13.00 - 15.00
Friends World Committee for
Consultation (co-sponsored by
International Fellowship of
Reconciliation)
Conscientious objection to military
service, threat of death penalty and
other issues
Public
E.2060
13.00 - 15.00
A Women’s Voice International
(co-sponsored by Jubilee
Campaign)
Human rights in China
Public
XXVII
13.00 -15.00
Fédération internationale des
ligues des droits de l'homme (cosponsored by Human Rights
Watch)
Human rights in the Democratic
Republic of Congo
Public
XVIII
13.00 - 15.00
Society for Threatened Peoples
International
CHR mandates, treaty bodies and the
People’s Republic of China
Public
XX
15.00 - 16.30
FIAN International
“Operationalising the right to water:
case studies and privatisation and
mining”
Public
XXII
15.00 - 17.00
Freedom House
Development and human rights in
Cuba (item 9)
Public
E.2064/66
15.30 -17.00
International League for Human
Rights (co-sponsored by
International Helsinki Federation
& la Fédération internationale des
ligues des droits de l’homme)
Human rights in Chechnya
Public
XXI
Type of
meeting
Conference
Room
Public
XXII
Thursday, 31 March 2005
Other meetings*
Time
Organized by
Subject of the meeting
9.00 - 10.00
OHCHR
General briefing with the Special
Rapporteur on adequate housing as a
component of the right to an
adequate standard of living:
”Special Rapporteur’s study on
women and housing”
9.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of Canada
Right to freedom of expression
(item 11)
Co-sponsors E-2064/66
only
10.00 - 11.00
Permanent Mission of Australia
National institutions (item 17)
Co-sponsors
only
E-2060
/…
-8Other meetings, Thursday, 31 March 2005 (cont’d)
10.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of Pakistan
Informal consultations on draft
resolution on combating defamation
of religions (item 6)
Open-ended E-2070/72
10.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of Sweden
Extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions (item 11)
Co-sponsors
only
XXI
10.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of Luxembourg Draft resolution on the situation of
human rights in Myanmar (item 9)
Co-sponsors
only
XXII
10.00 - 12.00
European Union
Draft resolution on the situation of
human rights in the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (item 9)
Open-ended
XXIII
11.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of Canada
Meeting with Mr. Paul Hunt, Special
Rapporteur on the right of everyone
to the enjoyment of the highest
attainable standard of physical and
mental health
Private
E-2060
11.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of Egypt
Draft resolution on the protection of
human rights of civilians in armed
conflicts (item 17)
Open-ended E-2070/72
11.00 - 12.00
Permanent Mission of Chile
Informal consultations on draft
resolution on the right to remedy
(item 11)
Open-ended
XXVII
11.00 - 12.30
Permanent Mission of Japan
Draft resolution on Cambodia
(item 19)
Private
XXIV
13.00 - 15.00
OHCHR
General briefing with the Special
Rapporteur on the right to food:
”Voluntary Guidelines on the Right
to Food”
Public
XXII
14.00 - 15.00
OHCHR
General briefing with the
Independent expert on structural
adjustment and foreign debt on the
enjoyment of human rights
Public
E-3023
15.00 - 16.00
Permanent Mission of Portugal
Draft resolution on economic, social
and cultural rights (item 10)
Open-ended
XXIV
15.00 - 16.30
OHCHR
General briefing with the Special
Rapporteur on adequate housing as a
component of the right to an
adequate standard of living
Public
XXI
15.00 - 16.30
Permanent Mission of Armenia
Consultations on draft resolution
“Convention on the prevention and
punishment of genocide” (item 17)
15.00 - 17.00
Permanent Mission of Italy
Assistance to Somalia in the field of
human rights
Open-ended E-2070/72
Private
E-2064/66
/…
-9Other meetings, Thursday, 31 March 2005 (cont’d)
15.00 - 17.00
OHCHR
General briefing with the
Independent expert on human rights
and extreme poverty
Public
XXIII
15.00 - 17.00
OHCHR
General briefing with the Special
Rapporteur on the promotion and
protection of the right to freedom of
opinion and expression
Public
XXII
15.00 - 17.00
Permanent Mission of Brazil
Draft resolution on the right of
everyone to the enjoyment of the
highest attainable standard of
physical and mental health
Open-ended
XXVII
16.00 - 17.00
Permanent Mission of Portugal
Draft resolution on the right to
education (item 10)
Open-ended
XXIV
16.00 - 18.00
Permanent Mission of Switzerland Human rights and transitional justice Co-sponsors
only
XVIII
16.30 - 19.00
Permanent Mission of Cuba
XXI
Informal consultations on the draft
Open-ended
resolution “Use of mercenaries as a
means of violating human rights and
impeding the exercise of the right of
peoples to self-determination”
NGO events**
Time
Organized by
Subject of the meeting
Type of
meeting
Conference
Room
9.00 - 10.00
Children’s Human Rights Caucus
Children’s rights briefings
Public
E-3025
9.00 - 10.00
NGO Women’s Caucus
Women’s human rights issues
Public
XXIII
9.00 - 10.00
Conference of NGOs in
NGO Strategy Meeting
Consultative Relationship with the
United Nations
Public
E-2060
13.00 - 15.00
Fédération internationale des
ligues des droits de l’homme
Economic, social and cultural rights
in China (item 10)
Public
XXIV
13.00 - 15.00
Freedom House (co-sponsored by
Transnational Radical Party)
The UN Democracy Caucus: Its role
in promoting and protecting human
rights
Public
XXIII
13.00 - 15.00
Human Rights Advocates
Agenda item 10: “Stopping human
rights violations from hazardous
waste and chemical dumping, and
promoting corporate accountability”
Public
XXVII
13.00 - 15.00
International Publishers
Association (co-sponsored by
International PEN)
Civil and political rights in Tunisia
(item 11)
Public
XXI
/…
- 10 NGO events, Thursday, 31 March 2005 (cont’d)
13.00 - 15.00
A Woman’s Voice International
(co-sponsored by Jubilee
Campaign)
Human rights in the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea
Public
XVIII
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