Info Note on UN Special Procedures (May 2024)

This issue includes:

Calls for input: Belarus; Cultural rights; Disabilities; Discrimination against women and girls; Executions; Education; Extreme poverty; Health; Minority issues; Racism; Sale and sexual exploitation of children; Sexual orientation and gender identity. 

Upcoming country visitsmissions carried out by UN Special Procedure mandate holders to assess the situation of human rights in a specific country. During their missions, they will meet with national and local authorities, national human rights institutions, as well as with NGOs, civil society, and survivors of human rights violations. Findings, conclusions and recommendations of such missions are published in reports to the Human Rights Council.: Angola; Australia; Botswana; Brazil; Burkina Faso; Canada; Chile; China; Colombia; Dominican Republic; Guinea-Bissau; Jordan; Kuwait; Lithuania; Mongolia; Peru; Republic of Korea; Sweden; Thailand; Ukraine; United States of America. 

Calls for input

• Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity 

Call for contributions for report on electoral participation and sexual orientationrefers to a person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to - and intimate and sexual relations with - individuals of a different gender or the same gender or more than one gender. and gender identityrefers to a person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. (to be presented at GA 79)

Deadline: 02 May 2024 

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• NEW!!! Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights 

Call for contributions for report on the right to participate in sports (to be presented at GA 79)

Deadline: 10 May 2024 

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• Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions 

Call for contributions for report on the killing of LGBTIQ+ persons (to be presented at GA 79)

Deadline: 10 May 2024 

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• Special Rapporteur on minority issues 

Call for contributions for report on institutional arrangements of States that enable minority rights to flourish (to be presented at GA 79) 

Deadline: 10 May 2024 

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• NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children 

Call for contributions for report on existing and emerging sexually exploitative practices and abuse against children in the digital environment (to be presented at GA 79) 

Deadline: 15 May 2024 

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• NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism 

Call for contributions for mandate’s visit to Brazil (to be presented at HRC 59)

Deadline: 24 May 2024 

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• NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the right to education 

Call for contributions for report on artificial intelligence in education (to be presented at GA 79) 

Deadline: 27 May 2024 

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• NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the right to health 

Call for contributions for report on harm reduction for sustainable peace and development (to be presented at GA 79) 

Deadline: 27 May 2024 

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• NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on Belarus 

Call for contributions for report on engagement of Belarus with UN and regional human rights mechanisms, bodies and mandates (to be presented at GA 79) 

Deadline: 31 May 2024 

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• NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities 

Call for contributions for report the participation of persons with disabilities in the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Post-2030 discussions (to be presented at GA 79) 

Deadline: 31 May 2024 

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• Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty 

Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Colombia (to be presented at HRC 59) 

Deadline: 14 June 2024 

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• NEW!!! Working Group on discrimination against women and girls  

Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to the Dominican Republic (to be presented at HRC 59)

Deadline: 15 June 2024 

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