United Nations

January (1 day)

Extraordinary meeting of Permanent Representatives to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi

January/February (1 mtg)

United Nations Staff Pension Committee, New York

January/February (3 days)

United Nations seminar on assistance to the Palestinian People, Place to be determined

5-18 January

Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations, regular session, New York

10-14 January

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), Working Group on Arbitration, New York

10-14 January

International Meeting for the ten-year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Mauritius

10-20 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

10-28 January

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, thirty-second session, New York

10-28 January

Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-eighth session, Geneva

10-28 January

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Committee, Montreal

14 January, once every fortnight thereafter

Military Staff Committee, New York

17 January

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Programme and Budget Committee, Vienna

17-19 January

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, workshop on free, prior and informed consent, New York

17-19 January

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Executive Board, first regular session, New York

17-25 January

World Health Organization (WHO), Executive Board, Geneva

18-22 January

Second World Conference on Disaster Reduction and its preparatory committee, Kobe, Japan

19 January

Economic and Social Council, election of Bureau, New York

20, 24 January

Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA, UNICEF and World Food Programme (WFP), New York

24-28 January

UNCITRAL, Working Group on Security Interests, New York

24 January-4 February

Ad Hoc Committee to elaborate a convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, New York

24 January-4 February

Open-ended Working Group on an International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, second session, New York

24 January-1 April

Conference on Disarmament first part, Geneva

25-28 January

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Executive Board, first regular session, New York

31 January-2 February

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Working Party on the medium-term plan and the programme budget, forty-fourth session, first part, Geneva

31 January-4 February

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, pre-sessional working group, New York

31 January-4 February

Committee on the Rights of the Child, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

31 January-4 February

International Narcotics Control Board,  eighty-second session, Vienna

31 January-4 February

WFP, Executive Board, first regular session, Rome

31 January-11 February

Commission on Human Rights, intersessional open-ended working group mandated to elaborate a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearance, Geneva

31 January-25 February     

Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations and its Working Group, substantive session, New York

* *** *