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اجتماع الأشخاص الذين يرأسون هيئات معاهدات حقوق الإنسان الدورة الخامسة والعشرون
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- اجتماع الأشخاص الذين يرأسون هيئات معاهدات حقوق الإنسان الدورة الخامسة والعشرون
- من: 20 آيار/مايو 2013 إلى: 24 آيار/مايو 2013
ANNUAL MEETING OF CHAIRPERSONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS TREATY BODIES
New York: 20/5/2013:
The annual Meeting of Chairpersons of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies provides a forum for members of the ten human rights treaty bodies (Human Rights Committee, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, Committee against Torture, Committee on the Rights of the Child, Committee on Migrant Workers, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Committee on Enforced Disappearance and the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture) to discuss their work and consider ways to enhance the effectiveness of the treaty body system as a whole.
Issues addressed at these meetings have included, among other things, the streamlining and overall improvement of human rights reporting procedures, harmonization of the Committees' methods of work, follow-up to World Conferences, and financial issues.
In response to reports from several of the treaty bodies, the General Assembly, in 1983, called on the chairpersons of human rights treaty bodies to meet in order to discuss how to enhance the work of the treaty bodies (A/RES/38/117). The first meeting of chairpersons took place in 1984. Since 1995, the chairpersons of human rights treaty bodies have met annually.
Since 1999, the chairpersons have convened a meeting with special procedures mandate holders (both thematic and country mandates) of the Human Rights Council. Their discussions have focused on technical questions, such as increasing the exchange of information between treaty bodies and special procedures. Substantive issues, including the effect of globalization on the enjoyment of human rights (2003) and counter-terrorism measures and human rights (2004), have also been discussed.
Informal consultations with States parties as well as UN partners and NGOs have also been a feature of the meeting of chairpersons.
From 2002 to 2011, an Inter-Committee Meeting, consisting of the chairpersons plus two members of each of the committees, was also convened to discuss issues relating to working methods and other substantive matters of the human rights treaty bodies.
