Geneva

3 - 4 August 2006

Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human

Rights, intersessional forum on economic, social and cultural rights (Social Forum)            

7 - 25 August

Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, fifty-eighth session

28 August - 1 September

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on

Arbitrary Detention, 46th Session

11 - 29 September

Committee on the Rights of the Child, forty-third session: Country reports – Benin, Ireland, Ethiopia, Jordan, Kiribati, Oman, Republic of Congo, Samoa, Senegal, Swaziland; Optional Protocol on sale of children etc., Denmark, Syria, Vietnam; Optional protocol on Children in Armed Conflict – Kazakhstan, Malta, and Vietnam.

30 October - 3 November

Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant

Workers and Members of Their Families, Fifth Session

16 October - 3 November

Human Rights Committee, eighty-eighth session

15 – 24 November

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary  Detention

6 - 10 November    

Committee against Torture, pre-sessional working group

2007

January

Committee on the Rights of the Child, forty-third session: Country reports – Chile, Honduras, Kenya, Maldives, Mali, Suriname.

May - June

Committee on the Rights of the Child, forty-third session: Country reports – Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Kyrgyzstan, Sudan, Ukraine; Optional protocol on Children in Armed Conflict – Costa Rica, Kyrgyzstan, Monaco, Norway, and Sweden.

Vienna

9 - 18 October 2006

Conference of the States Parties to the Convention against

Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols, third session

New York

12 July

Civil Society Hearings on Immigration and Decent Work for all

7 - 25 August

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, thirty-sixth session: Country reports - Cape Verde, Chile, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Georgia, Ghana, Jamaica, Mauritius, Mexico, Philippines, Republic of Moldova and Uzbekistan

5-7 September

General Assembly, high-level meeting on the midterm comprehensive global review of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the decade 2001-2010, preparatory expert meeting        

6-8 September

59th Annual DPI NGO Conference with the Theme “Unfinished Business: Effective Partnerships for human security and sustainable development”

12 September – December

General Assembly, sixty-first session

14 - 15 September

General Assembly, high-level dialogue on international migration and development

2007

15 January – 2 February 2007

37^th session of the Committee to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women:  Country reports – Tajikistan, Austria, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Greece, India, Kazakhstan Maldives, Namibia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru, Poland, Suriname and Vietnam.