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Calendar of Selected UN Events in 2004

The following lists some of the UN meetings and events that are due to take place in 2004. Please note that dates may be subject to change. Not all meetings listed below are open to NGO participation.

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• Africa Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 11th United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment
  of Offenders (General Assembly), February 2004, Addis Ababa
  
  
• Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
  13th session, 13-22 May, Vienna
  
  
• Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 26 January - 6 March, Vienna

Contact: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, Austria, website (www.unodc.org/odccp/index.html)

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• Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Executive Council
  18-21 March, The Hague
  12-15 October, The Hague
  
  
• First Review Conference of the Chemical Weapons Convention,
  28 April-9 May, The Hague
  
  
• Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, 8th Session, 20-24 October,
  The Hague

Contact: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Johan de Wittlaan 32, NL-2517 JR - The Hague, Netherlands, e-mail <inquiries@opcw.org>, website (www.opcw.org)

CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT

• Conference on Disarmament,
  first part, 19 January - 26 March, Geneva
  second part, 10 May - 25 June, Geneva
  third part, 26 July - 10 September, Geneva

Contact: Conference on Disarmament, Palais des Nations,
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland,
website (www.un.org/disarm/dconf.htm)

DISARMAMENT COMMISSION

• Disarmament Commission, 5-23 April, New York
  Contact: Disarmament Commission, Room S-2977-H, UN, New York, NY 10017, USA, telephone +1-212/963 5595, fax +1-212/963 1121, website (http://disarmament.un.org/undiscom.htm)
  

LANDMINES

• Preparatory Meeting of the First Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and Their Destruction,
  13 February, Geneva
  28-29 June, Geneva
  
  
• First Review Conference, 29 November-3 December, Nairobi

Contact: Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Office of Mine Action Service, Room S-3630, UN, New York NY 10017, USA, website (www.un.org/Depts/dpko)

NUCLEAR WEAPONS

• Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and Informal/Expert Meetings,
  19 April - 7 May, Vienna
  24 May-4 June, Vienna
  30 August -10 September, Vienna
  
  
• Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization,
  22nd session, 22-25 June, Vienna
  23rd session, 15-19 November 2004, Vienna
  
  
• Preparatory Committee for the 2005 Review Conference of States Parties to the treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 3rd session, 26 April- 7 May, New York

Contact: CTBTO Preparatory Commission, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 1200, A-1400 Vienna, Austria, e-mail <info@ctbto.org>, website (www.ctbto.org)

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• Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)
  Substantive session, 6-30 July, New York

• Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations,
  10-28 May, New York
  Contact: NGO Section, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Room DC1-1480, UN, New York NY 10017, USA, e-mail <mezoui@un.org>, website (www.un.org/esa/coordination.ngo)
• ECOSOC High-Level Segment Preparatory Meeting on LDC's and Resource Mobilization for Poverty Eradication,
  17-18 March, New York
  6-8 July, New York
  
  Contact: Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Room DC2-2150, UN, New York NY 10017, USA, telephone +1-212/963 4867, fax +1-212/963 1061
  
  
• Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  32nd session, 26 April - 14 May, Geneva
  33rd session, 8-26 November, Geneva

• ECOSOC Special High-Level meeting with the Bretton Woods Institutions and the World Trade Organization, 26 April 2004, New York

• General Assembly Fifth Committee, resumed session,
  8 March - 2 April 2004, New York

• General Assembly, 59th session, September-December,
  New York

• ECOSOC Coordination Segment (Mainstreaming Gender, Rural Development), and Operational Activities Segment (Triennial Comprehensive Policy Review), Date TBA, New York

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• Fifth Meeting of the Working Group on Education for All (EFA), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 25-29 July, Paris

• International Conference on Education, UNESCO,
  8-11 September, Geneva

• Fourth Meeting of the High-Level Group on EFA, UNESCO,
  14-16 November, Brazil

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• UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Committee on World Food Security, 30th session, 20 -24 September, Rome

• FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission, 27th session,
  28 June -2 July, Rome

• FAO Council, December, Rome

Contact: FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, I-00100 Rome, Italy, website (www.fao.org)

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• World Urban Forum on Cities: Crossroads of Cultures and Integration, UN-HABITAT, 13-17 September, Barcelona

Contact: UN-HABITAT, PO Box 30030, Nairobi, Kenya, +254- 2/623153, fax +254-2/624060, website (www.unhabitat.org)

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• World Health Organization (WHO), World Health Assembly, 57th session, 17-22 May, Geneva

Contact: WHO, 20 avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland, website (www.who.int)

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• United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 13th International Symposium on HIV & Emerging Infectious Diseases, 3-5 June, Toulon (France)
  
  
• UNAIDS XV International AIDS Conference, 11-16 July, Bangkok (Thailand)
  

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• Commission on Human Rights, 60th Session
  15 March - 23 April, Geneva

• Human Rights Committee
  80th session, 15 March - 2 April, New York
  81st session, 12-30 July, Geneva

• Committee against Torture, pre-sessional working group,
  26-30 April, Geneva

• Rights of the Child
  36th session, 17 May - 4 June, Geneva
  pre-sessional working group, 4-8 October, Geneva

• Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
  Intersessional Forum on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Social Forum), 3-4 May, Geneva
  56th session, 26 July - 13 August, Geneva

• Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, 24-28 May, Geneva

• Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 10-21 May, New York

• Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection and Human Rights, Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, 21-25 June, Geneva

• Meeting of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies,
  21-25 June, Geneva

• Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 65th session, 2-20 August, Geneva

• Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, 73rd session,
  16 - 20 August, New York

• Twenty-second Meeting of States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, September, New York

• Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities,
  3rd session, 24 May - 4 June, New York
  4th session, 23 August - 3 September, New York
  
  Contact: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland, telephone +41-22/917 9000, website (www.unhchr.ch)

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• Committee on Information, 26th session,
  26 April-7 May, New York

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• International Criminal Court
  Third session of the Assembly of States Parties, 6 - 10 September, The Hague

Contact: Office of the Legal Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs, UN, New York NY 10017, USA, telephone +1-212/963 1942, fax +1-212/963 3386, website (www.un.org/law/icc/index.htm)

• International Law Commission, 56th session
  3 May - 4 June, Geneva
  5 July - 6 August, Geneva

• Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, 7-11 June, New York

• Meeting of the States Parties to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea 14-18 June, New York

• Contact: UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs, Room DC2-0450, UN, New York NY 10017, USA, e-mail <doalos@un.org>, website (www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm)

• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNICTRAL), 37th session, 14 June-2 July, New York

Contact: Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Vienna International Centre, PO Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, Austria, telephone +43-1/26060 4061, fax +43-1/26060 5813, e-mail <unictral@unictral.org>, website (www.uncitral.org)

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• Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 47th session,
  16 -25 March, Vienna

• Contact: Commission on Narcotic Drugs, UNODC, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, Austria, website (www.unodc.org/odccp/cnd.html)

• International Narcotics Control Board,
  80th session, 17 - 28 May, Vienna
  81st session, 27 October - 11 November, Vienna

• Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Meeting of heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, 4-8 October, Vienna

Contact: International Narcotics Control Board, UNODC, Vienna International Centre, PO Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, Austria, e-mail <secretariat@incb.org>, website (www.incb.org)

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• Commission on Population and Development, 37th session
  22-26 March, New York

Contact: Population Division, DESA, Room DC2-1950, UN,
New York NY 10017, USA,
website (www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm)

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• Pre- Executive Committee Consultations with NGOs, October, Geneva

• Executive Committee, 55th session, 4-8 October, Geneva

Contact: NGO Unit, Division of Communication and Information, telephone +41-22/739 7944,
fax +41-22/739 7302, e-mail <hqng00@unhcr.ch>

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• Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), 60th session, 22- 28 April, Shanghai

• Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 30th session, 10-14 May, Puerto Rico

• Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), 59th session, 24-26 February, Geneva

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• Commission for Social Development, 42nd session, 4-13 February, New York

• International Labour Organization (ILO), General Conference, 1-18 June, Geneva

• ILO Governing Body and its Committees, 18 June, Geneva

Contact: Bureau for External Relations and Partnerships, ILO, 4 route des Morillons, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland, e-mail <aumont@ilo.org>, website (www.ilo.org)

• Children's World Congress on Child Labour, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 10-12 May, Florence (Italy)

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Commission ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (CSD)

• Commission on Sustainable Development acting as the Preparatory Committee for the International Meeting to Review the Implementation of the Programme of Action for Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS),
  14-16 April, New York

• Commission on Sustainable Development, 12th Session
  19 - 30 April, New York

• Barbados +10: International meeting to review the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Islands Developing States (SIDS),
  30 August-3 September, Mauritius

Contact: Secretariat for Mauritius 2004, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development, United Nations, New York NY 10017, USA, telephone +1-212/963 8563,
fax +1-212/963 4340, e-mail <Mauritius2004@sidsnet.org>, website (www.sidsnet.org)

UNITED NATIONS FORUM ON FORESTS

• United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), 4th Session
  3-14 May, Geneva

Contact: UN Division for Sustainable Development, DC 2-2286, 2 UN Plaza, 12th Floor, New York NY 10019, USA, e-mail <unff@un.org>, website (www.un.org/esa/forests/index.html)

UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

• Meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Conference of Parties to the Convention, 14 - 25 June, Bonn

• Conference of Parties to the Convention, 10th session, 29 November-10 December, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

ROTTERDAM CONVENTION

• First Conference of the Parties of the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade,
  20-24 September, Geneva

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT FACILITY

• NGO Consultation
  18 May, Washington DC
  16 November, Washington DC

• GEF Council Meeting
  19-21 May, Washington DC
  17-19 November, Washington DC

Contact: GEF Secretariat, 1818 H Street NW, Washington DC 20433, USA, website (www.gefweb.org)

• Open-ended Ad Hoc Working Group on the Causes of Conflict and the Promotion of Durable Peace and Sustainable Development in Africa, date TBA, New York
  

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United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

• Trade and Development Board, 21st special session,
  10 -11 May, Geneva

• Commission on Science and Technology for Development,
  7th session, 24-28 May, Geneva

• Preparatory Committee for UNCTAD XI
  1-5 March, Geneva
  19-23 April, Geneva
  3-7 May, Geneva

• UNCTAD XI, 11th Session, 13-18 June, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Contact: UNCTAD, Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland, e-mail <info@unctad.org>, website (www.unctad.org)

International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB)

• Annual Spring Meetings of the World Bank Group and the IMF, 24-25 April, Washington DC

• Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the IMF,
  4-5 October 2004, Washington DC

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• Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), 48th session,
  1-12 March, New York
  Contact: Division for the Advancement of Women, DESA, UN, New York NY 10017, USA, e-mail <daw@un.org>, website (www.un.org/womenwatch/daw)

• Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
  Working Group on Communications under the Optional Protocol to the Convention, 28 June - 2 July, New York
  31st session, 6-23 July, New York
  Pre-sessional Working Group, 26 - 30 July, New York

• Thirteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
  12 August, New York

Contact: Women’s Rights Unit, Division for the Advancement of Women, DESA, UN, New York NY 10017, USA, e-mail <daw@un.org>, website (www.un.org/womenwatch/daw)