Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families

Fortieth session

Geneva, 7–17 April 2025

Item 2 of the provisional agenda

Adoption of the agenda

Annotated provisional agenda

Provisional agenda

1.Opening of the session.

2.Adoption of the agenda.

3.Organizational matters.

4.Submission of reports by States parties.

5.Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 73 of the Convention.

6.Methods of work of the Committee.

7.Promotion of the Convention.

8.Adoption of the annual report.

Annotations

1.Opening of the session

The representative of the Secretary-General will open the fortieth session of the Committee.

2.Adoption of the agenda

In accordance with rule 5 of the Committee’s rules of procedure, the present annotated provisional agenda has been prepared by the Secretary-General in consultation with the Chair of the Committee.

In accordance with rule 6 of the rules of procedure, the adoption of the agenda will be the first item on the provisional agenda of any session, except where the election of officers is required pursuant to rule 13. In accordance with rule 7, the Committee may revise the agenda during a session and may, as appropriate, defer or delete items.

3.Organizational matters

The fortieth session of the Committee will be held at Palais Wilson, from 7 to 17 April 2025. The first meeting of the session will be convened on Monday, 7 April, at 10 a.m.

The Committee will consider its programme of work and issues relevant to its business, including the dates of its future sessions. The programme of work will be made available on the web page of the Committee.

4.Submission of reports by States parties

During their thirty-fourth meeting, the Chairs of the treaty bodies decided that the simplified reporting procedure would become the default procedure for all Committees, with the possibility for States parties to opt out; at their thirty-fifth meeting, the Chairs reaffirmed the decision, with a clarification that the simplified procedure applied to both initial and periodic reports. In accordance with those decisions, and based on its available human resources, the Committee will adopt lists of issues prior to reporting for the States parties that have not opted out.

As at 27 January 2025, the initial reports of the following States parties were due but had not been received by the Committee for consideration:

State party	Initial date due	Deadline for submission of the replies to the list of issues prior to reporting
Chad a	1 June 2023
Côte d’Ivoire b	1 January 2025
Fiji c	1 December 2020
Gambia d	1 January 2020	19 August 2024
Guinea-Bissau a	1 February 2020
Malawi a	1 January 2024
Togo a	1 April 2022

a A list of issues prior to reporting will be adopted by the Committee at a future session.

b The State party plans to submit its initial report under the traditional reporting procedure.

c At its fortieth session, the Committee will have before it for adoption the list of issues prior to reporting .

d The list of issues prior to reporting ( CMW/C/GMB/QPR/1 ) was adopted by the Committee at its thirty-seventh session.

The second periodic reports of the following States parties were due but had not yet been received as at 27 January 2025:

State party	Initial date due	Deadline for submission of the replies to the list of issues prior to reporting
Bangladesh a	1 May 2022
Guinea b	9 September 2020
Guyana c	1 May 2023
Lesotho c	1 May 2021
Libya c	1 May 2024
Madagascar c	1 October 2023
Mozambique c	1 October 2023
Nicaragua c	1 October 2021
Niger d	1 October 2021	29 December 2023
Uganda c	24 April 2020

a On 28 March 2023, the State party opted out of the simplified reporting procedure, and will submit its report under the traditional procedure.

b At its fortieth session, the Committee will have before it for adoption the list of issues prior to reporting .

c A list of issues prior to reporting will be adopted by the Committee at a future session.

d The list of issues prior to reporting ( CMW/C/NER/QPR/2 ) was adopted by the Committee at its thirty -sixth session.

The third periodic reports of the following States parties were due but had not yet been received as at 27 January 2025:

State party	Initial date due	Deadline for submission of the replies to the list of issues prior to reporting
Albania a	1 May 2024
Algeria b	1 May 2023
Argentina a	1 October 2024
Guatemala a	1 May 2024
Sri Lanka c	1 October 2021

a A list of issues prior to reporting will be adopted by the Committee at a future session .

b On 31 March 2023, the State party opted out of the simplified reporting procedure, and will submit its report under the traditional procedure.

c On 16 May 2023, the State party opted out of the simplified reporting procedure, and will submit its report under the traditional procedure.

The Committee received the fourth periodic report of Colombia on 9 October 2024. The fourth periodic reports of the following States parties were due but had not yet been received as at 27 January 2025:

State party	Initial date due	Deadline for submission of the replies to the list of issues prior to reporting
Bosnia and Herzegovina a	1 October 2024
Ecuador b	1 October 2022

a A list of issues prior to reporting will be adopted by the Committee at a future session.

b At its fortieth session, the Committee will have before it for adoption the list of issues prior to reporting .

The following States parties were reviewed in the absence of a report and were each requested to submit combined initial and periodic reports:

State party	Due date of initial report	Due date of combined initial and periodic reports	Deadline for submission of the replies to the list of issues prior to reporting
Belize a	1 July 2004	5 September 2016	1 November 2020
Jamaica b	1 January 2010	1 May 2019	1 March 2022
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines c	1 February 2012	1 May 2019

a The State party was reviewed in the absence of a report at the twenty-first session of the Committee . At the same session, Belize was requested to submit its combined initial to third periodic reports. A list of issues prior to reporting ( CMW/C/BLZ/QPR/1-3 ) was adopted by the Committee at its thirty-first session.

b The State party was reviewed in the absence of a report at the twenty- sixth session of the Committee . At the same session, Jamaica was requested to submit its combined initial and second periodic reports. Owing to the coronavirus disease ( COVID-19 ) pandemic, the list of issues prior to reporting for Jamaica ( CMW/C/JAM/QPR/1-2 ) was adopted by the Committee intersessionally, on 5 February 2021.

c The State party was reviewed by the Committee in the absence of a report at its twenty- eighth session. At the same session, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines was requested to submit its combined initial and second periodic reports. A list of issues prior to reporting will be adopted by the Committee at a future session .

5.Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 73 of the Convention

At its fortieth session, the Committee will consider the fourth periodic report of Mexico (CMW/C/MEX/4), the second periodic report of the Niger, the combined initial and second periodic reports of Jamaica and the combined initial to third periodic reports of Belize. It will adopt concluding observations on the reports.

The Secretary-General has informed the States parties concerned of the dates on which their reports are scheduled for consideration by the Committee, in accordance with its provisional programme of work.

At its fourteenth session, the Committee established a simplified reporting procedure, which consists in the preparation and adoption of a list of issues and the transmittal thereof to the State party concerned prior to the submission of its report. The replies of the State party to the list of issues constitute its report under article 73 (1) of the Convention. In order to support an increased use of the simplified reporting procedure by States parties, the Committee decided, at its thirty-fourth session, that the procedure would be implemented on an opt-out basis, rather than an opt-in basis, whereby the simplified reporting procedure under rule 33 (2) of its rules of procedure is henceforth the default procedure and the traditional reporting procedure the exception. The Committee will therefore adopt a list of issues prior to reporting for any State party to the Convention that has not explicitly requested use of the traditional reporting procedure, after States parties have been duly informed of the decision taken by the Committee. At its fortieth session, the Committee will adopt lists of issues prior to reporting in respect of Ecuador, Fiji and Guinea, and a list of issues in relation to the third periodic report of Tajikistan.

6.Methods of work of the Committee

The Committee recalls that at their thirty-sixth annual meeting, held in New York from 24 to 28 June 2024, the Chairs of the treaty bodies made progress in aligning the working methods of the Committees, including with respect to the simplified reporting procedure and the proposed advisory mechanism for harmonization.

At its future sessions, therefore, the Committee will discuss its methods of work, the harmonization of the treaty bodies’ working methods and other issues arising from General Assembly resolution 68/268 on strengthening and enhancing the effective functioning of the human rights treaty body system.

7.Promotion of the Convention

The Committee will discuss its involvement in and support for various events and initiatives in promotion of the Convention, including meetings with stakeholders, days of general discussion and the preparation of general comments.

8.Adoption of the annual report

In accordance with article 74 (7) of the Convention, the Committee submits an annual report to the General Assembly on the implementation of the Convention.

The Committee will have before it for adoption a report on its thirty-ninth and fortieth sessions.