United Nations

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

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 Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Working Group on Communications under the Optional Protocol to the Convention, 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

World Food Programme (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

Meetings beginning in February:

February
(1 day)

Committee of Permanent Representatives to UN-Habitat, Nairobi

February

United Nations Staff Pension Committee (1 meeting), New York

February/March

Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, New York

1-4 February

Economic and Social Council, organizational session, New York

1 February-22 April

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

7 February

Investments Committee, New York

7-11 February

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Situations, Geneva

7-11 February

Commission on Narcotic Drugs, meeting of heads of national drug law enforcement agencies, European region, Vienna

9-18 February

Commission for Social Development, forty-third session, New York

14-18 February

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on the Rights to Development, Geneva

14 February-4 March

Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Working Group B and informal/expert meetings, Vienna

14 February-11 March

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

16-17 February

International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Governing Council, Rome

21-25 February

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum, twenty-third session, Nairobi

21 February-4 March

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, forty-third session, Vienna

21 February-11 March

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, sixty-sixth session, Geneva

22-25 February

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development, Geneva

22-25 February

Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), sixtieth session, Geneva

23 February

Tenth meeting of the States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, New York

23-25 February

Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, New York

28 February-3 March

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Board of Governors, Vienna

28 February-4 March

Intergovernmental preparatory meeting for the thirteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, New York

28 February-4 March

United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations, Board of Trustees, Geneva

28 February-11 March

Commission on the Status of Women, forty-ninth session, New York

28 February-11 March

International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), sixtieth session, Bangkok

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