International Coordinating Committee
of National Human Rights Institutions (ICC)

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ICC Activities:

• Ms. Katharina Rose is the ICC (International Co-ordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights) a.i. representative in Geneva. She participates actively in the Human Rights Council sessions as well as in the UN Human Rights Treaty bodies on behalf of the ICC Chair and A status institutions.
  
  
• Sub-Committee on Accreditation of the ICC: Following the Sub-Committee on Accreditation of the International Coordinating Committee of NHRIs meeting which took place on 22-26 October 2007, the Sub-Committee informed by letter concerned institutions about the outcome of the accreditation reviews including specific recommendations for ensuring full compliance with the Paris Principles (the death line to appeal for the NHRIs is the 30th November, no reply will be considered as acceptance). The ICC voting members will be then asked to review and approve the report within 10 days i.e. by 10 December.
  
  
• Universal Periodic Review: The first round of the Universal Periodic Review mechanism will take place from 7-18 April 2008. National human rights institutions may submit information for consideration and inclusion by OHCHR in the summary of stakeholders' information (which is one of the 3 documents based upon which the UPR review will take place). The deadline for submission of information is 20 November 2007. Countries to be reviewed in the first round include Bahrain, Ecuador, Tunisia, Morocco, Indonesia, Finland, United Kingdom, India, Brazil, Philippines, Algeria, Poland, Netherlands, South Africa, Czech Republic, Argentina.
  

ICC Agenda / meetings

• Information note to National Institutions
  
  
• 2006 - 62nd Session
  
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• 2005 - 61th Session
  
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• 2004 - 60th Session
  
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• 2003 - 59th Session
  
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• ICC Agenda
  
  
• 2006 - Eighteenth Session, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 26-27 October [as of 22.09.06] 
  

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• 2006 - Seventeenth Session, Geneva. [as of 06.04.06] 
  
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• 2005 - Sixteenth Session, Geneva.
  
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• 2004 - Fifteenth Session, Seoul.
  
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• 2004 - Fourteenth Session, Geneva.
  
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• 2003 - Annual Meeting, Geneva
   
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• 2002 Annual Meeting, Geneva.
  
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ICC information

• Members / Chairperson / Vice-Chairperson
  
  
• Members of the International Co-ordinating Committee 2007-2008 (HTML)
  
  
• Members of the International Co-ordinating Committee 2006-2007 (HTML)
  
  
• Members of the International Co-ordinating Committee 2005-2006 (HTML)
  
  
• Members of the International Co-ordinating Committee 2004-2005 (HTML)
  
  

• Members of the International Co-ordinating Committee 2003 (HTML)
  
  

• Members of the International Co-ordinating Committee 2002 (HTML)  

• Reports / List of participants
  
  
  
• Seventeenth Session of the International Co ordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC), 12 and 13 April 2006, Geneva
  
  Draft Report
  
  
• Sixteenth Session of the International Co ordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC), 14 and 15 April 2005, Geneva
  
  Draft Report
  
  
• Fifteenth Session of the International Co‑ordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (ICC), 14 September, Seoul, Korea 2004.
  
  Draft Report

Statement by Mr. Morten Kjærum, Chairperson of the ICC, 14 September 2004

• Fourteenth Session of the International Co‑ordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, 15 and 16 April 2004, Geneva.
  
  Draft Report (PDF - 148 Kb)

• National Institutions in need:  Guidelines for Early Warning
  
  
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Statements of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to the ICC meetings

• The High Commissioner's statement to the ICC meeting of 2003, Geneve 14 April 2003
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• The High Commissioner's statement to the ICC meeting of 2002, Geneve 17 April 2002
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• The High Commissioner's statement to the ICC meeting of 2001, Geneve 18 April 2001  
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ICC Sub-Committee on Accreditation  

• List of accredited National Institutions
  
  2007 Accredited National Institutions (updated Dec 2007)
  
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  2006 Accredited National Institutions
  
  2005 Accredited National Institutions
  
  2004 Accredited National Institutions
  
  
  
• Reports
  
  
• Report and Recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Accreditation, Geneva, 22-26 Oct. 2007
  
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• Report and Recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Accreditation, 19th Session, Geneva, 22 Mar. 2007
  
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• Report and Recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Accreditation, 18th Session, Santa Cruz, 27 Oct. 2006
  
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• Report and Recommendations of the Sub-Committee on Accreditation, 16th Session, Geneva, 14-15 Apr. 2005
  
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• Rules of Procedure for the ICC Sub-Committee on Accreditation (adopted 14 Sep. 2004)
  
  

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• Rules of Procedures
  
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• Proposed Schedule for Consideration of NHRI as Part of Re-Accreditation Process
  
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Application for Accreditation

• Information on applying for accreditation including the template Statement of Compliance with the Paris Principles. (Updated May 2007)
  
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      Proposed Amendments to the ICC Statute  for onward distribution

• ICC STATUTE-EXPLANATORY NOTE 09-10-08
• COMPENDIUM OF AMENDMENTS ICC STATUTE as of 09-10-08
• AMENDED TABLE OF ICC STATUTE as of 09-10-08