Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families Fourteenth sessionGeneva, 4-8 April 2011

Provisional agenda and annotation

Note by the Secretariat*

1.The fourteenth session of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva (Palais Wilson) from 4 to 8 April 2011. The first meeting of the session will be convened on Monday 4 April at 10 a.m.

2.The attached provisional agenda and annotations for the fourteenth session of the Committee have been prepared by the Secretary-General in consultation with the Chairperson of the Committee, in accordance with rule 5 of the Committee’s provisional rules of procedure.

Provisional agenda

1.Opening of the session.

2.Adoption of the agenda.

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

4.Submission of reports by States parties.

5.Promotion of the Convention.

6. Issues pertaining to the Convention.

7. Adoption of the annual report to the General Assembly.

8. Organizational and other matters.

Annotations

1.Opening of the session

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

2.Adoption of the agenda

Under rule 6 of the Committee’s provisional rules of procedure, the first item on the agenda of any session shall be the adoption of the agenda, unless the election of officers is required under rule 12. In accordance with rule 7, the Committee may revise the agenda during a session and may, as appropriate, defer or delete items.

3.Consideration of reports submitted by States partiesunder article 73 of the Convention

At its fourteenth session, the Committee will consider the second periodic report received from Mexico (CMW/C/MEX/2).

A tentative timetable for the consideration of reports at the fourteenth session, prepared in consultation with the Committee, is indicated below:

Timetable for consideration of reports under article 73 of the Convention

Mexico

Second periodic report (CMW/C/MEX/2)

Monday 4 April 2011, p.m. Tuesday 5 April 2011, a.m.

The Secretary-General has informed the State party concerned of the date on which its report is scheduled for consideration by the Committee.

4. Submission of reports by States parties

The Committee has received the following initial reports, which are pending consideration by the Committee:

State party	Date due	Date received	Symbol
Argentina	1 June 2008	2 February 2010	CMW/C/ARG/1
Chile	1 July 2006	9 February 2010	CMW/C/CHL/1
Guatemala	1 July 2004	8 March 2010	CMW/C/GTM/1
Tajikistan	1 January 2004	3 December 2010	CMW/C/TJK/1
Paraguay	1 January 2010	10 January 2011	CMW/C/PRY/1

The following initial reports were due by 1 February 2011 but have not yet been received:

State party	Date due
Belize	1 July 2004
Burkina Faso	1 March 2005
Cape Verde	1 July 2004
Ghana	1 July 2004
State party	Date due
Guinea	1 July 2004
Honduras	1 December 2006
Jamaica	1 January 2010
Kyrgyzstan	1 January 2005
Lesotho	1 January 2007
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	1 October 2005
Mauritania	1 May 2008
Morocco	1 July 2004
Nicaragua	1 February 2007
Niger	1 July 2010
Nigeria	1 November 2010
Peru	1 January 2007
Rwanda	1 April 2010
Seychelles	1 July 2004
Timor-Leste	1 May 2005
Turkey	1 January 2006
Uganda	1 July 2004
Uruguay	1 July 2004

The following second periodic reports were due by 1 February 2011 but have not yet been received:

State party	Date due
Bolivia	1 July 2009
Egypt	1 July 2009
El Salvador	1 December 2010
Mali	1 October 2009

5. Promotion of the Convention

Under this item, the Committee will discuss its involvement in and support for various events to continue promoting the Convention, including follow-up on the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention.

6. Issues pertaining to the Convention

Under this item, the Committee will explore the possibility of holding a day of general discussion at future sessions on topics related to the Convention.

7. Adoption of the annual report to the General Assembly

In accordance with article 74, paragraph 7, of the Convention, the Committee shall submit an annual report to the General Assembly on the implementation of the Convention.

8. Organizational and other matters

Under this item, the Committee will consider miscellaneous issues relevant to the Committee’s business, including its programme of work, dates for the future sessions of the Committee, methods of work of the Committee, and harmonization of treaty body working methods and other issues arising out of the inter-committee meeting Working Group on Follow-up of the Human Rights Treaty Bodies held in January 2011. The Committee will have before it the report of this meeting.