These are lists of the official UN documents issued during the Sub-Commission session. The documents themselves can be obtained through the Sub-Commission website or the Door 40 Document Desk at the UN Headquarters in Geneva.
Last revised: 28 July 2003
Notes:
1. This is not a list of the official titles of each document. We have abbreviated the text for quick description or reference.
2. For explanations of common UN abbreviations and the UN document numbering system, see background materials.
1. Agenda
Add.1 Annotated agenda
2. Statistics of the 54th session
3. Zerrougui study on discrimination in criminal justice
Add.1 [Not specified yet.]
Add.2 Visit to Iran of the Wkg Grp on Arbitrary Detention
4. Decaux wkg paper on military tribunals
5. Hampson wkg paper on accountability of UN personnel
6. Rept of the Wkg Grp on Admin of Justice
7. Rodriguez-Cuadros wkg paper on democracy
8. Note by Secretariat: re: CHR request to prepare concept document on rt to development
9. HC report on trade & investment
10. Guisse study on drinking water & sanitation
11. Pinheiro study on refugee property
12. Weissbrodt wkg paper on draft TNC norms
13. [Not specified yet.]
14. Oloka-Onyango & Udagama study on globalization
15. Van Hoof wkg paper on non-discrimination
16. Note by Secretariat re: Social Forum
17. Jt wkg paper on extreme poverty (Bengoa, Motoc, Eide, Yokota, Guisse, and two alternates, Decaux and Pinheiro)
18. Mbonu wkg paper on corruption
19. Rept of Wkg Group on Minorities
20. Daes study on indigenous sovereignty over natural resources
21. Eide updated rept on constructive approaches for minorities
22. Rept of the Wkg Grp on Indig Populations
23. Weissbrodt study on non-citizens
Add.1 UN activities
Add.2 Regional activities
Add.3 Examples of practices
Add.4 Summary of comments rec'd
24. Eide & Yokota expanded wkg paper on discrimination based on work & descent
25. Secy Genl note re: specific human rights issues [describes recent activities of the treaty bodies]
26. Secy Genl note re: sale of children, child prostitution & pornography
27. High Comm'r rept on systematic rape, sexual slavery in armed conflict
28. Koufa study on terrorism
29. Frey study on small arms & light weapons
30. Warzazi rept on traditional practices
31. Rept of Wkg Group on Slavery
32. Hampson expanded wkg paper on reservations to human rights treaties
33. [Unused]
33. Kartashkin wkg paper on rights of women married to foreigners
35. Sik Yuen wkg paper on weapons of mass destruction
36. Motoc expanded wkg paper on human genome/bioethics
37. Decaux wkg paper on universality of human rights treaties
38. Weissbrodt wkg paper on commentary to the draft TNC norms
39. States of emergency
40. List of country situations considered at the 2003 Commission
41. Report of the UN Population Fund
1. Agenda
Add.1 Annotations
WP.1 Paper on regional guidelines or codes of practice to implement the declaration on minorities, by Tom Hadden
WP.2 [Not specified]
WP.3 Paper from Minority Rights International on possible new UN mechanisms
WP.4 Paper on minorities in Ghana by E. Gyimah-Boadi & Richard Asante
WP.5 Paper on minority rights in Fiji & the Solomon Islands by Jon Fraenkel
WP.6 Paper on Kyrgyzstan by Ainur Elebaeva
WP.7 Paper on minorities in the South Caucusus by Anna Matveeva
WP.8 Paper on minorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran by Nazila Ghanea-Hercock
WP.9 [Not specified]
WP.10 Paper on minority groups in Nigeria by Abdul Raufu Mustapha
WP.11 [Not specified]
WP.12 Paper on minorities in Malaysia & Singapore by Lily Zubaidah Rahim
WP.13 [Not specified]
WP.14 Rept by Ms. Julia Kam on a Regional Seminar held on cultural diversity and development in Southeast Asia
WP.15 Paper on ancestral domain rights of indigenous communities in Mindanao, Philippines by Erlinda M. Burton
WP.16 Paper on China's minorities -- the case of Zinjiang & The Uyghur People, by Dru C. Gladney
1. Agenda
Add.1 Annotations
2. Status of the Conventions on Slavery
3. Status of the Conventions on Trafficking
4. Other forms of exploitation (rept of the Secy-Genl)
1. Agenda
Add.1 Annotations
2. Note by the Secretariat on the Principle Theme "Globalization and Indigenous Peoples"
3. Motoc wkg paper on a list with commentaries on possible standard-setting activities that might be considered by the Working Group at its future sessions
4. Alfonso Martinez wkg paper on a list with commentaries on possible studies to be undertaken by the members of the Working Group in the immediate and near future
5. Yokota working paper on the possible elaboration of draft guidelines relating to transnational companies whose activities affect indigenous communities
6. Note by the Secretariat on Standard-setting
7. Yokota working paper on possible cooperation with the Special Rapporteur on indigenous people
8. Alfonso Martinez working paper on ways and means of developing cooperation between the Working Group and the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
9. Note by the Secretariat on the follow-up to the World Conference against Racism
10. Note by the Secretariat on Workshop on Indigenous Peoples and Sustainable Development: Technical Follow up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Washington, 19 - 20 February 2003
11. Note by the Secretariat on the Consultation and Training Workshop for Pygmy Communities on Human Rights, Development and Cultural Diversity in Cooperation with the ILO and the UNESCO, 11-15 November, Yaoundé and the Dja Biosphere Reserve, Cameroun
12. Note by the Secretariat on the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations
13. Voluntary Fund on the International Decade
14. Guisse working paper on globalization and the economic, social and cultural rights of indigenous populations
1. Jammu & Kashmir Council for Human Rights [impact of armed conflict on women’s rights]
2. Jammu & Kashmir Council for Human Rights [conflict between India & Pakistan in Kashmir]
3. La Asociación Americana de Juristas (in Spanish only) [TNCs]
4. All For Reparations and Emancipation (AFRE) [discrimination against Afrodescendants]
5. International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) [Tibet]
6. International Council of Women [the girl child and the age of marriage]
7. International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism (IMADR) [ethnic discrimination in education in Japan]
8. La Fédération des Femmes Cubaines [in French only]
9. [Not available yet]
10. La Federación de Mujeres Cubanas [in Spanish only]
11. Society for Threatened Peoples [Tibet]
12. International Association of Democratic Lawyers [US military massacre of Korean civilians during the Korean War, 1950-53]
13. Human Rights Advocates [TNC norms]
14. Joint statement by 7 NGOs (ICW-CIF, Franciscans Intl, Intl Movement ATD 4th World, ICJ, FIDH, IFSW, OMCT and Lutheran World Fed) [on extreme poverty]
15. Association for World Education [ratification of treaties & natl practice, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan]
16. International Educational Development [depleted uranium, other weapons inconsistent with human rights norms]
17. International Educational Development [abduction of children in Saudi Arabia]
18. Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights [Peru’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission]
19. International Educational Development [Kashmir]
20. International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism [discrimination based on work & descent]
21. [Not available yet]
22. Minority Rights Group Intl [Milennium Development Goals, extreme poverty, hunger, education, environmental sustainability]
23. Jt statement by Friends World Committee (Quakers) & World Organisation Against Torture [juveniles under military jurisdiction, USA/Guantamo Bay, Dem Republic of Congo, Israel & Sudan]
24. La Asociación Latinoamericana para los Derechos Humanos (ALDHU) [in Spanish only]
25. Center for Reproductive Rights [women in Nepal in prison for abortion]
26. [Not available yet]
27. Jt statement of African Society of Intl & Comparative Law, Interfaith Intl & Liberation [Darfur in western Sudan]
28. Jt statement of African Society of Intl & Comparative Law & North-South XXI [implement national plans of action, to followup from Durban Declaration, for people of African Descent, etc.]
29. [Not available yet]
30. [Not available yet]
31. [Not available yet]
32. Centre Europe – Tiers Monde (CETIM) and l’ Association Américaine de Juristes
33. Minority Rights Group [Working Group on Minorities –calls for a voluntary fund, and more relevant linkage of issues to agenda]
34. [Not available yet]
35. World Union for Progressive Judaism [Jewish refugees in Arab countries]
36. Fraternité Notre Dame [extreme poverty, hunger, Africa, Haiti, Mongolia, etc.]
37. Europe-Third World Centre (CETIM) [effects of US embargo against Cuba]
38. [Not available yet]
39. La Asociación Americana de Juristas
40. Association for World Education [two human rights defender cases in Egypt]
41. World Union for Progressive Judaism [Hamas suicide bombings]
42. Association for World Education [rascist Judeophobia/anti-Semitism]
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