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regular sessions of his or her treaty body, such as a workshop, the United Nations
will pay the normal DSA rate (100 per cent).
As a general rule the United Nations Secretariat does not provide support for any
intersessional meetings or travel except for those that are official. Consequently,
if a treaty body member is invited to take part in a training course, workshop or
academic seminar organized by a State, another United Nations entity (such as
UNICEF or UN-Women), an academic institution or an NGO, the United Nations
Secretariat will not cover travel costs. These organizations may cover travel and
DSA themselves, although they are likely to have different rules.
The regular budget approved by the General Assembly provides OHCHR with
resources that cover the travel and DSA of treaty body members, as well as staff
to support treaty body work. Furthermore, the regular budget foresees resources
for all conference services provided by UNOG to treaty bodies, including
simultaneous interpretation of meetings and the costs related to documentation
(editing, translation and reproduction).
Despite the increases that the General Assembly approved under the recent treaty
body strengthening process, the regular budget remains insufficient to cover all
the resources needed to support the treaty bodies. In particular, OHCHR relies
on extrabudgetary resources—namely from donor States and others—to cover
a portion of staffing and other costs. The High Commissioner for Human Rights
makes an annual appeal to donors to seek additional resources to support all the
work of OHCHR, including some limited support for treaty bodies. This appeal
contains the proposed extrabudgetary funding requirements for which voluntary
contributions are sought.
E. Contacts
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights provides
support to human rights treaty body members in the fulfilment of their important
responsibilities. Table 8 sets out the e-mail addresses and the websites of the 10
treaty bodies.
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