Brussels

9 July 2007

Civil Society Forum on Migration and Development

10-11 July 2007

Government Migration and Development Forum

Vienna

27-28 November

International Conference on Human Trafficking sponsored by the UN Department of Drugs and Crime

Geneva

9-27 July

Human Rights Council

July/August 2007 (three weeks)

Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights  - TBA – will know in June 2007

4-14 September 2007

Human Rights Council, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, thirty second session (5 days)

17 September- 5 October 2007

Committee on the Rights of the Child, forty-sixth session: Country reports – Sierra Leone, Venezuela

OPSC: Bulgaria, France, Spain,

OPAC: Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Qatar, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic

November 2007

Committee Against Torture: Norway, Estonia, Portugal, Australia, Benin, Uzbekistan, Latvia,

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

26 November-7 December

Human Rights Council, seventh session

2008

January - February

Committee on the Rights of the Child, forty-seventh session: Country reports – Dominican Republic, Georgia, Timor Leste
OPSC: Chile, Kuwait, Timor Leste
OPAC: Chile, Germany, Ireland, Kuwait, Timor Leste

May

Committee Against Torture: Indonesia, Iceland, Zambia, Sweden, Algeria, China Macao and Hong Kong, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

May – June

Committee on the Rights of the Child, forty-eighth session: Country reports – To be announced

New York

14 May – 1 June

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, thirty-eighth session: Country reports- Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Syrian Arab Republic, Vanuatu

23 July -10 August

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, thirty-eighth session: Country reports- Cook Islands, Belize, Brazil, Estonia, Guinea, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Singapore

5 -7 September 2007

60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference: Climate Change: -How It Affects Us All

10-12 September 2007

General Assembly High Level Meeting : A World Fit for Children +5  - five year review of the UN Special Session on Children

18 September – December 2007

General Assembly, sixty-second session

October 2007

Date - TBA

General Assembly, high-level dialogue on financing for development (3 days)

2008

15 January – 2 February 2007

40^th session of the Committee to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women:  Country reports –TBA (possibly in Geneva)

6-15 February

46th Session of Commission for Social Development

Themes – Promoting Full Employment and Decent Work for All (Policy session) – See Employment Survey material

                 Review of world programmes for Youth, Ageing,               

                 Disabled Persons

                 Emerging Issues

25 February – 7

March

52nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

Theme: Financing for gender equality and the empowerment of women

7 – 11 April

41^st Session of the Commission on Population and Development

Theme: TBA

28 April – 9 May

16^th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development

Themes:  Focus on Agriculture, Rural Development, Land, Drought, Desertification and Africa; Review session on Water and Sanitation and Habitation policies adopted by CSD-13.

12-23 May

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Theme:  TBA