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Refugees & forced migration
2002 UN Commission on Human Rights
2001-12-06, Issue 45
The fifty-eighth session of the UN Commission on Human Rights will be be held from 18 March to 26 April 2002 in Geneva. The International Catholic Commission on Migration and December 18 encourage all ECOSOC accredited NGOs to prepare a written statement on the human rights of migrants from their own perspective. Written statements submitted by NGOs and government delegations are issued as UN documents and made available as such to member and observer governments and NGO participants.
2002 UN Commission on Human Rights
It is time again to think about the fifty-eighth session of the UN Commission on Human Rights to be held from 18 March to 26 April 2002 in Geneva.
As NGOs are often invited to read their oral statements late at night before an empty room, the International Catholic Commission on Migration and December 18 encourage all ECOSOC accredited NGOs to prepare a written statement on the human rights of migrants from their own perspective. Written statements submitted by NGOs and government delegations are issued as UN documents and made available as such to member and observer governments and NGO participants. Written statements submitted by NGOs should be sent to Mr. Mika Kanervavuori, 1-050 (PW), UNOG, CH-1211 Geneva 10 (Tel.: (41 22) 917 94 31 Fax: (41 22) 917 90 11; E-mail address: mkanervavuori.hchr@unog.ch as soon as possible, and in any case before 15 January 2002. Organizations are encouraged, if possible, to provide the UN CHR Secretariat with the text of their statements in the different working languages of the United Nations (English, French and Spanish) on diskettes or by e-mail (mkanervavuori.hchr@unog.ch). The maximum length of written statements is 2,000 words for NGOs in general consultative status and 1,500 words for NGOs in special consultative status and for NGOs on the Roster. See NGO information note on the HCHR website:
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/58chr/58main.htm
If your organisation is planning to write a written statement, please let us know before December 1st at info@december18.net
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