UPR Call For Applications

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VOLUNTARY FUND FOR INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS Call for Applications October December 2013 Dear all, Please note

e that the deadline to submit applications to attend the 17th session of the Universal 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, 14 October to 1 November 2013) Bolivia Djibouti Mauritania Mozambique United States of America Uruguay Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) 51st session (Geneva, 4-29 November 2013) Committee on the Elimination of Discriminatio n against Women (CEDAW) 56th session (Geneva, 30 September to 18 October 2013) Andorra Benin Cambodia Colombia Republic of Moldova Seychelles Tajikistan Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (in the absence of a report) Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) 66th presessional working group (Geneva, 7-11 October 2013) India Indonesia Jordan Kyrgyzstan St. Lucia OPSC: India OPSC: Jordan OPSC: United Kingdom Committee against Torture (CAT) 51st session (Geneva, 28 October to 22 November 2013) Committee on Enforced Disappearanc es (CED) 5th session (Geneva, 4-15 November 2013)

Albania Austria Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Djibouti Egypt Gabon

Andorra Belgium Burkina Faso Kyrgyzstan Latvia Mozambique Poland Portugal

Argentina Spain

Kuwait Norway Adoption of list of Issues: - Armenia - Czech Republic - El Salvador - Finland - Indonesia - Monaco - Nepal - Portugal - Serbia - Ukraine

OPAC: Cuba OPAC: India OPAC: Jordan

Uzbekistan

The following States will be reviewed during the 17 th 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: indigenousfunds@ohchr.org Please mention the mechanism you wish to attend in the subject header of your email 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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