E/1999/INF/1
12 January 1999
Original: English
CALENDAR OF CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS FOR 1999
Note by the Secretariat
The Secretariat is circulating herewith a list of meetings of intergovernmental and expert
bodies in the economic, social and related fields to be held in 1999.
MEETINGS OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL AND ITS SUBSIDIARY BODIES SCHEDULED TO BE HELD
IN 1999
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Dates Venue Title
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11-29 January Geneva Committee on the Rights of the Child, 1/
twentieth session
11-15 January New York Committee on the Elimination of
and 8-10 February Discrimination against Women - Pre- sessional Working Group 1/
11-22 January Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Working
Group on a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on
involvement of children in armed conflicts
14-15 January Geneva UNCTAD - Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and
the Programme Budget, 1/
resumed thirty-second session
19 January New York Special meeting of the Economic and Social Council
19-22 January New York UNICEF - Executive Board, first regular session
19-29 January Vienna Open-ended Intergovernmental Ad Hoc Committee for
the purpose of elaborating a draft international convention against transnational
organized crime
19 January- New York Committee on the Elimination of 5 February
Discrimination against Women, 1/
twentieth session
20 January New York Economic and Social Council, election of the Bureau
20-22 January Rome Executive Board of the World Food Programme, first
regular session
25 January New York Joint meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA,
UNICEF and WFP
25-29 January New York Executive Board of UNDP and UNFPA,
first regular session
25-29 January Geneva UNCTAD - Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and
the Programme Budget, 1/
thirty-third session
25 January- Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Working 5 February Group
on a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of
children, child prostitution and child pornography
1-5 February Lucknow, India Commission on Narcotic Drugs -Subcommission
on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East
1-5 February Geneva Committee on the Rights of the Child -Pre-sessional
Working Group 1/
1-5 February Nairobi UNEP - Governing Council,
twentieth session
2-5 February New York Economic and Social Council,
organizational session
8-12 February Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Working Group on
Migrants and Human Rights
9-19 February New York Commission for Social Development,
thirty-seventh session
15-19 February Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Open-ended
inter-sessional ad hoc working group on a permanent forum for indigenous people in the
United Nations system
16 February New York Seventh Meeting of the States Parties to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child
17-19 February Geneva UNCTAD - Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts
on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting 1/
22-24 February San Jose' Latin American and Caribbean Regional
Preparatory Meeting for the Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and
the Treatment of Offenders
22-26 February Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Working Group on
Situations
22 February- New York Commission on Sustainable Development -5 March
inter-sessional ad hoc open-ended working groups
1-5 March Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Open-ended Working Group
established to elaborate policy guidelines on the effects of structural adjustment
programmes on the full enjoyment of human rights
1-5 March New York Statistical Commission,
thirtieth session
1-12 March Geneva UNCTAD - United Nations/IMO Diplomatic Conference on a
convention on arrest of ships 1/
1-19 March New York Commission on the Status of Women,forty-third
session, and the Commission acting as the preparatory committee for the special session of
the General Assembly entitled "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for
the twenty-first century"
1-19 March Geneva Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
1/ fifty-fourth session
15-19 March New York Human Rights Committee - Working Group on
Communications 1/
16-25 March Vienna Commission on Narcotic Drugs, forty-second session
22-24 March Geneva UNCTAD - Expert Meeting on International Investments
Agreement 1/
22-31 March New York Commission on Population and Development,
thirty-second session, and the Commission acting as the preparatory committee for the
special session of the General Assembly for the review and appraisal of the implementation
of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development
22 March-9 April New York Human Rights Committee, 1/ sixty-fifth
session
22 March-30 April Geneva Commission on Human Rights, fifty-fifth
session
March (3 days) Geneva Board of Trustees of the United Nations
Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, fifth session
5-9 April New York Executive Board of UNDP and UNFPA, second regular
session
5-16 April 2/ New York Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for
Development, first session
6-9 April Addis Ababa ECA - Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole,
nineteenth session
12-14 April Addis Ababa ECA, Twenty-fourth meeting of the Conference of
Ministers, thirty-third
session of the Commission
12-16 April (3 days) Geneva UNCTAD - Meeting of Experts within the
framework of the Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development 1/
19-30 April New York Commission on Sustainable Development, seventh
session
22-28 April Bangkok ESCAP, fifty-fifth session
26-28 April Geneva UNCTAD - Expert Meeting on Examining Trade in the
Agricultural Sector 1/
26 April-14 May Geneva Committee against Torture, twenty-second
session
26 April-14 May Geneva Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, twentieth session
27 April-6 May Vienna Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal
Justice, eighth session
April (1 week) Geneva Board of Trustees of the United Nations
Voluntary Fund for Indigenous
Populations
April (3 days) Geneva Advisory Group of the United Nations Trust
Fund for the International Decade of the World Indigenous People
April (1 day) New York Commission on Sustainable Development,
organizational session
April/May New York Committee for Development Policy,
(1 week) thirty-third session
April/May (3 days) Geneva Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund
for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, eleventh session
3-14 May Geneva Commission on Sustainable Development - Ad Hoc Open-ended
Intergovernmental Forum on Forests, third session
4-6 May Geneva ECE, fifty-fourth session
5-14 May Nairobi Commission on Human Settlements, 1/
seventeenth session
6-7 May New York Economic and Social Council, resumed organizational
session
10-14 May New York Commission on Human Rights - WorkingGroup on Enforced
or Involuntary
Disappearances, fifty-seventh session
10-21 May Vienna International Narcotics Control Board,
sixty-sixth session
11-14 May Rome Executive Board of the World Food
Programme, second regular session
17-18 May Nairobi Commission on Human Settlements,organizational session
of the Commission acting as the preparatory committee for the General Assembly special
session on the Habitat Agenda 1/
17-20 May Rome Executive Board of the World Food Programme, annual
session
17-21 May Geneva Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -
Pre-sessional Working Group
17-21 May Geneva Commission on Science and Technology for Development,
fourth session
17-21 May Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention, twenty-fourth session
17-28 May New York Preparatory Committee for the special session of the
General Assembly on the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social
Development and further initiatives, 1/ first
substantive session
17-28 May Geneva Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Fund
for Victims of Torture, eighteenth session
17 May-4 June Geneva Committee on the Rights of the Child,
twenty-first session
25-31 May Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Subcommission on Prevention
of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities - Working Group on Minorities
31 May-11 June Bonn UNFCCC - meetings of subsidiary bodies of the
Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
May(3 days) Beirut ESCWA - Technical Committee
May(2 days) Beirut ESCWA - twentieth session
May(1 day) New York Committee for Programme and Coordination,
organizational session
1-4 June Geneva Meeting of persons chairing human rights treaty bodies
1-4 June New York High-level Committee on the Review of Technical
Cooperation among Developing Countries, 1/ eleventh session
1-18 June 2/ New York Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, 1999
session
2-4 June Geneva UNCTAD - Meeting of Experts within the framework of the
Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development 1/
7-11 June New York UNICEF - Executive Board, annual session
7-11 June Geneva Committee on the Rights of the Child -Pre-Working Group
1/
7-25 June New York Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women, 1/
twenty-first session
14-18 June Geneva UNCTAD - Meeting of governmental experts from
landlocked and transit
developing countries and representatives of donor countries, and financial and development
institutions 1/
14-25 June New York Executive Board of UNDP and UNFPA, annual session
21-23 June Geneva UNCTAD - Expert Meeting on Air Transport Services 1/
23 June-2 July Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Subcommission on
Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities - Working Group on Contemporary
Forms of Slavery
28-30 June Geneva UNCTAD - Expert Meeting on Portfolio Investment Flows
and Foreign Direct Investment 1/
28 June-2 July New York Committee on the Elimination of
Discrimination against Women, Pre-sessional Working Group 1/
30 June-2 July New York General Assembly, special session for the review
and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International
Conference on Population and Development
June/July (4 weeks) New York Committee for Programme and
Coordination, thirty-ninth session
5-9 July Geneva Human Rights Committee - Working Group on Communications
1/
7-9 July Geneva UNCTAD - Intergovernmental Group of Experts on
Competition Law and Policy 1/
7-9 July Geneva UNCTAD - Expert Meeting on the Impact of Changing Supply
and Demand Market Structures on Commodity Prices and Exports 1/
5-16 July Geneva Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods
- Subcommittee of
Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, sixteenth session
5-30 July Geneva Economic and Social Council, substantive session
12-30 July Geneva Human Rights Committee, 1/ sixty-sixth session
14-16 July Geneva UNCTAD - Meeting of Experts within the framework of the
Commission on
Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development
19-23 July Geneva UNCTAD - Commission on Enterprise, Business
Facilitation and Development, 1/ fourth session
19-30 July Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Subcommission on
Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities - Working Group on
Communications
26-30 July Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Subcommission on
Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities - Working Group on Indigenous
Populations
2-27 August Geneva Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
1/ fifty-fifth session
2-27 August Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Subcommission on
Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, fifty-first session
30 August-3 September Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Working Group
on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, fifty-eighth session
6-8 September Geneva UNCTAD - Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and
the Programme Budget, 1/
thirty-fourth session, first part
7-10 September New York UNICEF - Executive Board, second regular session
7 September-December New York General Assembly, fifty-fourth session
13-17 September New York Executive Board of UNDP and UNFPA, third regular
session
13-17 September Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Working Group on
Arbitrary Detention, twenty-fifth session
20-24 September Geneva UNCTAD - Commission on Trade in Goods and
Services, and Commodities, fourth session
20 September-8 October Geneva Committee on the Rights of the Child, 1/
twenty-second session
September (2 days) New York General Assembly, special session for an
assessment and appraisal of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the
Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States
September Geneva Scientific and Technical Committee on the International
Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
Third quarter (1 week) Santiago Commission on Narcotic Drugs - Meeting of
Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies, Latin America and the Caribbean
Region
4-8 October Geneva UNCTAD - Commission on Investment, Technology and
Related Financial Issues, 1/ fourth session
4-8 October Geneva UNHCR - Executive Committee, fiftieth session
11-15 October Geneva Human Rights Committee - Working Group on
Communications 1/
11-15 October Geneva Committee on the Rights of the Child - Pre-sessional
Working Group 1/
18-29 October Geneva UNCTAD - Trade and Development Board, 1/
forty-sixth session
18 October- 5 November Geneva Human Rights Committee, 1/ sixty-seventh
session
19-22 October Rome Executive Board of the World Food Programme, third
regular session
25 October-5 November Bonn UNFCCC - Conference of the Parties to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, fifth session, and meetings of
subsidiarybodies
1-18 November Vienna International Narcotics Control Board, sixty-seventh
session
8-19 November Geneva Committee against Torture, 1/ twenty-
third session
8-26 November To be determined UNCTAD - Regional preparatory
meetings
for the tenth session of UNCTAD 1/
15-26 November Recife, Brazil Conference of the Parties to the United
Nations Convention on Desertification, third session
15 November-3 December Geneva Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights, twenty-first session
24 November Geneva Seventh meeting of States Parties to the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
24 November- Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Working Group 3 December
on Arbitrary Detention, twenty-sixth session
24 November-3 December Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Working Group
on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, fifty-ninth session
November (1 week) Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Open-ended
Working Group on the right to development
November (3 days) Geneva Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for
Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights, twelfth session
November (1 day) New York United Nations Pledging Conference for
Development Activities
2-3 December Vienna Commission on Narcotic Drugs, resumed forty-second
session
6-10 December Geneva Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -
Pre-sessional
Working Group
6-17 December Geneva Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous
Goods - Subcommittee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, seventeenth session
13-14 December Geneva UNCTAD - Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and
the Programme Budget, 1/
thirty-fourth session, second part
To be determined New York United Nations Group of Experts on (2 weeks) Geographical Names,
twentieth session
To be determined Geneva Commission on Human Rights - Working Group (1 week) on Migrants
and Human Rights
To be determined Vienna European Regional Preparatory Meeting for (1 week) the Tenth
United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders
To be determined Santiago ECLAC - Committee of the Whole, (2 days) twenty-fifth session
To be determined Santo Domingo INSTRAW - Board of Trustees, 1/ nineteenth
(1 week) session
To be determined New York Ad Hoc Group of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax
Matters
To be determined New York Special High-level Meeting between the Economic and Social
Council and the Bretton Woods institutions
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1/ Subsidiary body of the General Assembly.
2/ Dates to be confirmed by the Economic and Social Council.
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