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Docip agenda: August 29 - September 4, 2016

2016-08-28

Conferences

16th Session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

August 15 - September 2, 2016, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

Countries scheduled for consideration: Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Colombia, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Italy, Republic of Moldova, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay
List of issues: Canada

76th session of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention

August 29 - September 2, 2016, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

25th session of the Committee on Migrant Workers

August 29 - September 7, 2016, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

Countries scheduled for consideration: Honduras, Nicaragua, Niger, Sri Lanka
Lists of issues prior to reporting: Ecuador, Mexico

IUCN World Conservation Congress

September 1 - 10, 2016, Honolulu, Hawaii

Deadlines

33rd Session of the Human Rights Council

  • Deadline for written statements and for the submission of NGO side-event room requests: August 29, 2016

Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice: Questionnaire on good practices

22nd Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 22)

Indigenous Peoples’ & Communities’ Pavilion: Traditional Knowledge for Climate Action

27th session of the Universal Periodic Review (April-May 2017)

  • Countries: Bahrain, Ecuador, Tunisia, Morocco, Indonesia, Finland, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Philippines, Algeria, Poland, Netherlands, South Africa
  • Deadline for written submissions by civil society actors (tentative): September 22, 2016 

Call for expressions of interest for 2017 WIPO Indigenous Fellowship

Questionnaire on Biodiversity and Human Rights (Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment)

Future events

9th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

September 13, 2016

33rd Session of the Human Rights Council

September 13 - 30, 2016, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Website
  • Accreditation
  • Annotations to the agenda
  • Provisional programme of work
  • Half-day panel discussion (20 September): The causes and consequences of violence against indigenous women and girls, including those with disabilities
  • Informal meetings with Guatemala and Mexico on the draft resolutions concerning Indigenous Peoples (tentative):
    13 September: 3:00pm-5:00pm
    15 September: 10:00am-12:00pm
    19 September: 10:00am-12:00pm
    The draft resolutions and the reports will be available at the beginning of September.

31st Session of the WIPO Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore (IGC)

September 19 - 23, 2016, Geneva, Switzerland

Expert Meeting on Climate Change and Human Rights

October 6 - 7, 2016, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland 

 

 

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