Commission
GUIDE TO UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS MACHINERY
- remit
- See provisional agenda for 2001.
- Generally speaking, the Commission:
- considers the human rights situations in Member States
- considers particular human rights issues as they apply around the world
- receives the reports of its Special Rapporteurs and Working Groups
- draws up new human rights standards
- established
- 1946
- current members (state, date mandate expires – all mandates expire on 31 december)
- latin american and caribbean states
- Argentina
- 2002
- Brazil
- 2002
- Colombia
- 2001
- Costa-Rica
- 2003
- Cuba
- 2003
- Ecuador
- 2002
- Guatemala
- 2003
- Mexico
- 2001
- Peru
- 2003
- Uruguay
- 2003
- Venezuela
- 2003
- western european and other states
- Belgium
- 2003
- Canada
- 2003
- France
- 2001
- Germany
- 2002
- Italy
- 2002
- Norway
- 2001
- Portugal
- 2002
- Spain
- 2002
- United Kingdom
- 2003
- United States
- 2001
- african states
- Algeria
- 2003
- Burundi
- 2002
- Cameroon
- 2003
- Congo-Kinshasa
- 2003
- Kenya
- 2003
- Liberia
- 2001
- Libya
- 2003
- Madagascar
- 2001
- Mauritius
- 2001
- Niger
- 2001
- Nigeria
- 2002
- Senegal
- 2003
- South Africa
- 2003
- Swaziland
- 2002
- Zambia
- 2002
- asian-pacific states
- China
- 2002
- India
- 2003
- Indonesia
- 2002
- Japan
- 2002
- Malaysia
- 2003
- Pakistan
- 2001
- Qatar
- 2001
- Saudi Arabia
- 2003
- South Korea
- 2001
- Syria
- 2003
- Thailand
- 2003
- Viet Nam
- 2003
- eastern european states
- Czech Republic
- 2002
- Latvia
- 2001
- Poland
- 2003
- Romania
- 2001
- Russian Federation
- 2003
- reports to
- ECOSOC
- meets
- Annually in Geneva for 6 weeks. It will meet from 18 March to 26 April 2002.
- un address
- Office of the
- High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Palais des
- Nations
- United Nations
- 8 -14 Avenue de la
- Paix
- 1211 Geneva 10
- Switzerland
- submissions by
- December - only NGOs with consultative status have access, see the human rights machinery of the un
- secretarIAT
- Ms María Francísca IZE-CHARRIN Mr Guennadi LEBAKINE
(Also, each Special Rapporteur and Working Group has its own Assistant or Secretary - see relevant table)
- room number
- 1-037
- 1-053
- telephone
- 00 41 22 917 9260
- 00 41 22 917 9328
- fax
- 00 41 22 917 9011
- mfize-charrin.hchr@unog.ch
- glebakine.hchr@unog.ch