The Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-second session: Geneva, 13 - 31 January. Countries under review are: Czech Republic, Estonia, Haiti, Iceland, Italy, Republic of Korea, Romania, Solomon Islands and Viet Nam.

The Human Rights Committee, seventy-seventh session: Geneva, 17 March - 4 April. Countries under review are: Estonia, Israel, Luxembourg, Mali.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, sixty-second session: Geneva, 3 - 21 March. Countries under review are Côte d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Fiji, Ghana, Morocco, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Uganda.

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, thirtieth session: Geneva, 5 - 23 May. Countries under review are Israel, Luxembourg, Brazil, New Zealand and Iceland.

The Committee against Torture, thirtieth session: Geneva, 28 April –
16 May. Countries under review are Azerbaijan, Belgium, Croatia, Iceland, Moldova, New Zealand, Slovenia and Turkey.

The Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-third session: Geneva,
19 May – 6 June. Countries under review are: Cyprus, Eritrea, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Libya, Morocco, Sri Lanka, Syrian Arab Republic and Zambia.

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, twenty-ninth session: New York, 30 June - 18 July 2003. Countries under review are Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Japan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Slovenia.

The Human Rights Committee, seventy-eighth session: Geneva, 14 July –
8 August. Countries under review are El Salvador, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovakia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, sixty-third session: Geneva, 4 - 22 August. The countries to be reviewed are (not yet available).

The Committee on the Rights of the Child, thirty-fourth session: Geneva, 15 September – 3 October. The countries under review are: Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalem, Canada, Georgia, Madagascar, New Zealand, Pakistan, San Marino and Singapore.

The Human Rights Committee, seventy-ninth session: Geneva, 20 October -7 November. The countries under review are Colombia, Philippines and Sri Lanka.

The Committee against Torture, thirty-first session: Geneva,
10 - 21 November. Countries under review are Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Greece and Latvia.

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, thirty-first session: Geneva, 10 - 28 November. Countries under review are Republic of Moldova, Yemen, Russian Federation, Guatemala and Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

For updates, see: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/calen2003.htm

For more information on the work of the treaty bodies, please contact Ms. Marie Heuzé at (41-22) 779-0370 or at press_Geneva@unog.ch for meetings held in Geneva; for meetings held in New York, please contact Ms. Elisabeth Ruzicka-Dempsey at (212) 963-1742 or at ruzicka-dempsey@un.org.