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    VOLUNTARY FUND FOR INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS

    Call for Applications

    October December 2013

    Dear all,

    Please note that the deadline to submit applications to attend the 17th session of theUniversal Periodic Review and all sessions of treaty bodies taking place in Geneva

    between October and December 2013 is: 5 August 2013.

    Below are the States that will be examined by the treaty bodies for the said period:

    Human

    Rights

    Committee

    (CCPR)

    109th session

    (Geneva, 14October to 1

    November

    2013)

    Committee on

    Economic,

    Social and

    Cultural Rights

    (CESCR) 51st

    session (Geneva,4-29 November

    2013)

    Committee ontheElimination ofDiscrimination againstWomen

    (CEDAW) 56th session(Geneva, 30September to18 October2013)

    Committee

    on the

    Rights of the

    Child (CRC)

    66th pre-

    sessionalworking group

    (Geneva, 7-11

    October 2013)

    Committee

    against

    Torture (CAT)

    51st session

    (Geneva, 28

    October to 22November 2013)

    Committee on

    Enforced

    Disappearanc

    es (CED) 5th

    session

    (Geneva, 4-15November

    2013)

    Bolivia Albania Andorra India Andorra Argentina

    Djibouti Austria Benin Indonesia Belgium Spain

    Mauritania Belarus Cambodia Jordan Burkina Faso

    Mozambique Belgium Colombia Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan

    United States

    of America

    Bosnia and

    Herzegovina

    Republic of

    Moldova

    St. Lucia Latvia

    Uruguay Djibouti Seychelles OPSC: India Mozambique

    Egypt Tajikistan OPSC: Jordan Poland

    Gabon Saint Vincent

    and the

    Grenadines (in

    the absence of

    a report)

    OPSC: United

    Kingdom

    Portugal

    Kuwait OPAC: Cuba Uzbekistan

    Norway OPAC: India

    Adoption of list ofIssues:- Armenia- Czech Republic- El Salvador- Finland- Indonesia

    - Monaco- Nepal- Portugal- Serbia- Ukraine

    OPAC: Jordan

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    The following States will be reviewed during the 17th session of the Universal Periodic

    Review:

    - Belize- Central Africa Republic- Chad

    - China- Congo- Jordan- Malaysia- Malta- Mauritius- Mexico- Monaco- Nigeria- Saudi Arabia- Senegal

    This information might be subject to changes. Therefore, we would strongly advise that

    you check the OHCHR webpage on a regular basis to have updated information:

    http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/HumanRightsBodies.aspx

    http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/UPRMain.aspx

    http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/HRCIndex.aspx

    The application forms for these meetings are available on the following web link:

    http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/IPeoplesFund/Pages/ApplicationsForms.aspx

    Applications need to be signed, dated and sent with all the supporting documents

    to the following email: [email protected]

    Please mention the mechanism you wish to attend in the subject header of your e-

    mail

    Please also verify the new criteria for selection established by the members of the Board of

    Trustees of the Voluntary Fund to make sure that you are eligible to apply to attend the

    sessions you are interested in. The new criteria are available on the following web link:

    http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/IPeoplesFund/Pages/criteria.aspx

    For any other additional information, you can consult our website:

    http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/IPeoples/IPeoplesFund/Pages/IPeoplesFundIndex.aspx

    Best wishes,

    The Secretariat of the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations

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