Summary
This issue includes:
Calls for input: Business enterprises; Cultural rights; Development; Disappearances; Discrimination against women and girls; Education; Extreme poverty; Freedom of expression; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Housing; Independence of judges and lawyers; International Solidarity; Mercenaries; Sexual orientation and gender identity; Summary executions; Unilateral coercive measures; Violence against women.
Upcoming country visits: Burkina Faso; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Côte d’Ivoire; Jordan; Peru; Philippines; Tunisia; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Venezuela
Calls for input
| Mandate | Call | Deadline | Additional Info |
| Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures | Calls for contributions for the Sanctions Research Platform | 01 Jan 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty | Call for contributions for report on “Eradicating poverty in a post-growth context: preparing for the next Development Goals” (to be presented at the HRC 56) | 15 Jan 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression | Call for contributions from the mandate for the country visit to the Philippines (to be presented at HRC 59) | 15 Jan 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on business enterprises | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Tunisia (to be presented at the HRC 56) | 15 Jan 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression | Call for input on report on Journalists in Exile (to be presented at the HRC 56) | 15 Jan 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on summary executions | Call for contributions for report on “the protection of dead persons and their human remains, including of victims of potentially unlawful killings” | 29 Jan 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on violence against women | Call for contributions for report on prostitution and violence against women and girls (to be presented at the HRC 56) | 31 Jan 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on discrimination against women and girls | Call for inputs for follow-up to the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls’ country visits to Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Greece, Poland, Honduras, Chad, Samoa, Kuwait and Hungary | 31 Jan 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers |  Call for input for the report on “safeguarding the independence of judicial systems in the face of contemporary challenges to democracy” (to be presented at the HRC 56) |
31 Jan 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity | Call for input for report on “Protection against violence and discrimination based on SOGI, in relation to the human rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly” (to be presented at HRC 56) |
31 Jan 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association | Call for inputs for report on “emerging restrictions on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association and rising authoritarianism” (to be presented at HRC 56) | 31 Jan 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on education | Call for contributions for report on “academic freedom and freedom of expression in educational institutions.” (to be presented at the HRC 56) | 02 Feb 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on cultural rights | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Chile (to be presented at HRC 58) | 02 Feb 2024 | Read more |
| Working Group on enforced disappearances | Call for contributions for study on “Elections and Enforced Disappearances” (to be presented at HRC 57) |
15 Feb 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on violence against women | Call for contributions from the mandate for the country visit to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 10 Feb 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on mercenaries | Call for contributions from the mandate for the country visit to Côte d’Ivoire | 15 Feb 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Independent Expert on international solidarity | Call for inputs for report on the participation of CSOs pursuing expressions of international solidarity (to be presented at HRC 56) |
15 Feb 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures | Call for contributions for report on “Access to justice in the face of unilateral sanctions and over-compliance” (to be presented at GA 79) | 28 Feb 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on development | Call for input for reports on Climate Justice and right to development of children and future generations. | 29 Feb 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures | Call for input for 2023 Thematic Report to the 57th Session of the UN Human Rights Council – Monitoring and Impact Assessment | 30 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on housing | Call for contributions for report on “Resettlement as a human rights issue” (to be presented at HRC 55 and GA 79) | 31 Mar 2024 | Read more |
: requests information on LGBTI persons
Country visits by the Independent Expert on SOGI
The President of the UN Human Rights Council has appointed Graeme Reid as the incoming holder of the mandate of the Independent Expert on violence and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). He took on the role on 1st of November 2023. For more information have a look at our article at this link.
The UN Independent Expert on SOGI undertakes 1 to 3 fact-finding country visits per year.
The former Independent Expert, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, visited Cambodia in 2023, the United States of America in 2022, Tunisia in 2021, Ukraine in 2019, and Georgia and Mozambique in 2018. In 2017, his predecessor Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn visited Argentina.
In March 2018, the former Independent Expert Victor Madrigal-Borloz made 12 country visit requests. On 4 July 2018 Malta invited the Independent Expert to visit their country. The Independent Expert also requested a visit to Japan (8 October 2019), Tunisia (19 November 2019), India and Colombia (both 7 January 2020), Cambodia (28 March 2020), and Fiji and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (both 24 May 2022).
In this section, you may find information about the current status of the requests. Up-to-date information about country visits may be found here.
If your country is planned for the Independent Expert’s visit and you wish to engage with ILGA on this, please contact us (sp@.ilga.org).
| Country | Current Status |
| Argentina* | Visit conducted on 1–10 Mar 2017.
End of Mission Statement: English – Spanish |
| Armenia* | Request to postpone (17 Apr 2018) |
| Burkina Faso | Reminder visit request – for 2021 (17 Jan 2020) |
| Cambodia | Visit conducted on 10–20 Jan 2023.
End of Mission Statement: English Press Release: English |
| Colombia* | Request to postpone (7 Apr 2020) |
| Fiji* | Visit request (24 May 2022) |
| Georgia* | Visit conducted on 25 Sep to 5 Oct 2018.
End of Mission Statement: English – Georgian |
| Ghana* | Reminder visit request – for 2021 (7 Jan 2020) |
| India* | Visit request (7 Jan 2020) |
| Japan* | Visit request for second half of 2020 (8 Oct 2019) |
| Kenya* | Reminder visit request – for 2021 (7 Jan 2020) |
| Malta* | Invitation Country Visit (4 Jul 2018) |
| Mozambique* | Visit conducted on 3-10 Dec 2018.
End of Mission Statement: English – Portuguese Press Release: English – Portuguese |
| Nepal | Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
| Poland* | Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
| Sri Lanka* | Request to postpone to 2020 (2 Oct 2019). |
| Thailand* | Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
| Tunisia* | Visit conducted on 8 -18 Jun 2021
End of Mission Statement: English – Arabic – French |
| Ukraine* | Visit conducted on 30 Apr to 10 May 2019.
End of Mission Statement: English – Ukrainian |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland* | Accepting dates: 24 Apr – 5 May 2023 (6 Feb 2023)
End of Mission Statement: English |
| United States of America* | Visit conducted on 15 – 26 Aug 2022
End of Mission Statement: English Press Release: English |
* Countries with standing invitations. A standing invitation is an open invitation extended by a Government to all thematic special procedures. By extending a standing invitation States announce that they will always accept requests to visit from all special procedures.
Upcoming country visits by other mandates
This information is regularly updated by the OHCHR here.
To find out how to support the visits, please contact the respective mandate-holders at their e-mail addresses, available here
| Country | Mandate | Dates |
| POSTPONED!!! Singapore | Terrorism | 12 – 19 Jul 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Bosnia and Herzegovina | Mercenaries | 3 – 11 Oct 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Mozambique | Summary executions |
6 – 21 Nov 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Russian Federation | Minority issues | 1 – 18 Apr 2022 |
| POSTPONED!!! Costa Rica | Minority issues | 4 – 16 May 2023 |
| Peru | Health |
TBC 2023/2024 |
| Tunisia | Business enterprises |
1 Jan – 31 Mar 2024 |
| Philippines | Freedom of expression |
23 Jan – 2 Feb 2024 |
| Venezuela | Food | 1 – 14 Feb 2024 |
| NEW!!! United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Violence against women | 12 – 21 Feb 2024 |
| NEW!!! Côte d’Ivoire | Mercenaries | 4 – 13 Mar 2024 |
| NEW!!! Colombia | Indigenous Peoples | 5 – 15 Mar 2024 |
| Chile | Cultural Rights |
25 Mar – 5 Apr 2024 |
| Canada | Water and sanitation | 8 – 19 Apr 2024 |
| Canada | Arbitrary Detention | 13 – 24 May 2024 |
| Jordan | Cultural Rights |
20 – 31 May 2024 |
| Burkina Faso | Trafficking |
10 Jul – 19 Jul 2024 |
| Chile | Independence of judges and lawyers | 29 Jul – 9 Aug 2024 |
| Colombia | Business enterprises |
29 Jul – 9 Aug 2024 |
| Chile | Health |
21 Nov – 4 Dec 2024 |
: Mandate frequently considers LGBTI issues