Resource persons

(k) Calls on the Secretary General and the Security Council to establish a committee of independent experts to examine allegations of past massive human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed in Somalia, and to report on options for how these might be addressed

The following resource persons attended the session

Text of paragraph 23 of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation

15. Also decides to rename the International Day of Disabled Persons, observed every year on 3 December, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities

Article 5 states in pertinent part Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, having committed a belligerent act and having fallen into the hands of the enemy, belong to any of the categories enumerated in article 4 persons entitled to POW status , such persons shall enjoy the protection of the present Convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal.

See generally the reports of the Representative of the Secretary General on internally displaced persons (E CN.4 2004 77), and his successor, the Representative of the Secretary General on the human rights of internally displaced persons (E CN.4 2005 84).

See Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, principle 17.

Article 16 Law of persons and family law

Health Canada, HIV AIDS Among Aboriginal Persons in Canada A Continuing Concern (2003), p. 2. http www.hc sc.gc.ca pphb dgspsp publicat epiu aepi hiv vih aborig_e.html

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sexual and Gender based Violence against Refugees, Returnees, and Internally Displaced Persons Guidelines for Prevention and Response (2003), p. 42.

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Alan Winters et al., Negotiating the Liberalization of the Temporary Movement of Natural Persons, Commonwealth Secretariat, March 2002. See also, UNU WIDER, Efficiency Gains from the Elimination of Global Restrictions on Labour Mobility, 2003.

Paragraph 3 (a) of Council resolution 1373 (2001), called upon all States to find ways of intensifying and accelerating the exchange of operational information, especially regarding actions or movements of terrorist persons or networks .

The former Representative of the Secretary General on internally displaced persons raised such concerns, for example, in his report on his mission to the Russian Federation (E CN.4 2004 77 Add.2, p. 32).

See article 4 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which exempts from protection the following persons own nationals of parties to the conflict nationals of a State not bound by the Conventions nationals of a neutral State and nationals of a co belligerent State with normal diplomatic relations with the Occupying Power.

See, for example, the following reports by Human Rights Watch Ravaging the Vulnerable Abuses Against Persons at High Risk of HIV Infection in Bangladesh, vol. 15, No. 6 (C), (August 2003) Epidemic of Abuse Police Harassment of HIV AIDS Outreach Workers in India, vol. 14, No. 5 (C), (July 2002) Lessons Not Learned Human Rights Abuses and HIV AIDS in the Russian Federation, vol. 16, No. 5 (D), (April 2004).

Influential opposition figures such as former parliamentarian and political prisoner Riad Seif and the SNC s former leader, Burhan Ghalioun have proposed promising strategies for forming such an umbrella organization. For example, a group of wise persons who do not seek political positions could oversee the creation of a provisional council that includes all relevant political groups and coalitions, the military councils, the business community, and religious leaders.