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Table 7: Overview of treaty body sessions
Treaty body
Annual meeting times
Committee on the
Three sessions: April/May (three-week plenary); August
Elimination of Racial (four-week plenary); and November/December (threeDiscrimination
week plenary)
Human Rights
Committee
Three sessions: March (one-week pre-sessional working
group and three-week plenary); June/July (one-week
pre-sessional working group and four-week plenary);
and October/November (one-week pre-sessional
working group and three-week plenary)
Committee on
Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights
Three sessions: February/March (two-week plenary and
one-week pre-sessional working group); June (threeweek plenary); and September/October (three-week
plenary and one-week pre-sessional working group)
Committee on
the Elimination
of Discrimination
against Women
Three sessions: February/March (three-week plenary
and one-week pre-sessional working group); July (threeweek plenary and one-week pre-sessional working
group); and October/November (four-week plenary and
one-week pre-sessional working group)
Committee against
Torture
Three sessions: April/May (four-week plenary); July/
August (three-week plenary); and November/December
(five-week plenary)
Committee on the
Rights of the Child
Three sessions: January/February (three-week plenary
and one-week pre-sessional working group); May/June
(three-week plenary and one-week pre-sessional working
group); and September/October (three-week plenary
and one-week pre-sessional working group)
Committee on
Migrant Workers
Two sessions: April (two-week plenary); and August/
September (eight-day plenary)
Committee
on Enforced
Disappearances
Two sessions: February (two-week plenary); and
September (two-week plenary)
Committee on the
Rights of Persons
with Disabilities
Two sessions: March/April (three-and-a-half-week
plenary and one-week pre-sessional working group);
and August/September (three-week plenary and
one-week pre-sessional working group)
Subcommittee on
Three sessions: February (one-week plenary); June
Prevention of Torture (one-week plenary); and November (one-week plenary)
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