TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS OF UNITED NATIONS BODIES IN january 2006

The following is a tentative list of United Nations meetings scheduled to be held in January, including major meetings of intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations:

Meetings beginning in January:

January	Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), forty-sixth session, New York
January/February (1 week)	Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Situations, Geneva
6-17 January	Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group to elaborate an optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva
9 January	Economic and Social Council, election of Bureau, New York
9-13 January	Commission on Human Rights, open-ended working group on the right to development, Geneva
9-20 January	Preparatory Committee for the 2006 United Nations conference to review progress made in the implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects, first meeting, New York
9-27 January	Committee on the Rights of the Child, forty-first session, Geneva
11-13 January	Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Working Group on Communications under the Optional Protocol to the Convention, New York
12 January	States Parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, twenty-first meeting, New York
13 January, once every fortnight thereafter	Military Staff Committee, New York
16-19 January	United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, first regular session, New York
16 January-3 February	Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, thirty-fourth session, New York
16 January-3 February	International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal
17 January	International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee, Vienna
19-27 January	Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, regular session, New York
20 January	Open-ended Working Group for the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, organizational session, New York
20, 23 January	Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UNICEF and World Food Programme (WFP), New York
20-24 January	WFP, Executive Board, first regular session, Rome
20 January-3 February	Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva
23-27 January	United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, New York
23-28 January	World Health Organization (WHO), Executive Board, Geneva
23 January-31 March	Conference on Disarmament, first part, Geneva
24-27 January	UNDP and UNFPA, Executive Board, first regular session, New York
30 January-3 February	Panel of Governmental Experts on Verification in All its Aspects, first session, New York
30 January-3 February	UNCITRAL, Working Group on Security Interests, New York
30 January-3 February	United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, Board of Trustees, Geneva
30 January-3 February	International Narcotics Control Board, eighty-fifth session, Vienna

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