United Nations

25 April-13 May

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, thirty-fourth session, Geneva

Meetings beginning in May:

May (3 days)

United Nations Latin American and Caribbean Meeting on the Question of Palestine, place to be determined

2-6 May

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

2 May-3 June

International Law Commission, fifty-seventh session (also 4 July-5 August), Geneva

2-11 May

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Committee for the Review of the Convention, Bonn

2-13 May

International Narcotics Control Board, eighty-third session, Vienna

2-20 May

Committee against Torture, thirty-fourth session, Geneva

2-27 May

2005 Review Conference of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, second session, New York

2-27 May

General Assembly, Fifth Committee, resumed session, New York

3 May

International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), Executive Board, New York

9 May  

Investments Committee, New York

9-12 May          

Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), twenty-third session, Damascus

9-20 May

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

10-12 May

United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Programme and Budget Committee, twenty-first session, Vienna

11 May

Committee for Programme and Coordination, organizational session, New York

11-13 May

Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Committee of Experts of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, twenty-fourth meeting, Abuja, Nigeria

11-13 May

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, pre-sessional meeting, New York

12-18 May

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), sixty-first session, Bangkok

14-15 May

Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, thirty-eighth session of the Commission, Abuja, Nigeria

16-20 May

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, pre-sessional working group, Geneva

16-25 May

World Health Organization (WHO), World Health Assembly, fifty-eighth session, Geneva

16-27 May

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, New York

16-27 May

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), meetings of subsidiary bodies of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, Bonn

16-27 May

United Nations Forum on Forest, fifth session, New York

16 May-3 June

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

17-19 May

Regional seminar to review the situation in Non-Self Governing Territories under the Second Decade on the Eradication of Colonialism, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

17 May-15 July

Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, New York

23-27 May

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Geneva

23-27 May

Commission on Science and Technology for Development, eighth session, Geneva

23-27 May        

Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, fourteenth session, Vienna

23 May-3 June  

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

24 May-17 June

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Council, Montreal

26 May-3 June

Commission on Human Rights, Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, Geneva

30-31 May

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

30 May-3 June

Commission on Human Rights, Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Working Group on Minorities, Geneva

30 May-3 June

United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, fifty-third session, Vienna

30 May-15 July 

Conference on Disarmament, second part, Geneva

31 May-3 June

High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation, fourteenth session, New York

31 May-9 June

International Labour Organization (ILO), General Conference, Geneva

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