General information

A meeting of States parties will take place in New York (NLB Conference Room 2) on 1 May 2012 at 10 a.m. The purpose of this extraordinary meeting is to conduct one by-election to fill a casual vacancy arising from the death of a member of the Human Rights Committee in January 2012.

Quorum

Pursuant to article 30, paragraph 4 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the necessary quorum for the meeting is two-thirds of the 167 States Parties to the Covenant, that is to say 112 States Parties. To avoid the meeting being substantially delayed or postponed, representatives of States Parties should be present at the scheduled time of the meeting.

Credentials

In accordance with Rule 2 of the Revised Rules of Procedures of the Meeting of the States Parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the credentials of representatives and the names of members of a delegation issued by the Head of State or Government or by the Minister for Foreign Affairs should be submitted to the Secretary-General prior to the Meeting. The credentials may be brought to the Meeting or sent in advance to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York (for the attention of Mr. James Turpin, DC1 - 0504).

Additional meeting in 2012

States parties are informed that the regular scheduled elections to replace those 9 members of the Committee whose terms expire in December 2012 will be held at a States parties meeting (32st meeting) scheduled to take place on 6 September 2012.

31th Meeting of States parties

States parties to the Convention were invited to nominate their candidates by Monday, 26 March 2012. Nominations should be sent to the Secretariat at the following email addresses: kfox@ohchr.org and sthodiyil@ohchr.org.

The membership of the Human Rights Committee is currently as follows:

List of candidates as submitted by the States parties:

The following documents were issued for the thirty-first meeting of States parties.