Summary
This issue includes:
Call for inputs: extreme poverty; right to privacy; right to development
Upcoming country visits: Argentina; Bhutan; Canada; Cape Verde; Egypt; France; Guatemala; Italy; Malaysia; Morocco; Poland; Ukraine; United Kingdom; Uruguay.
Country visits by the Independent Expert on SOGI
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Call for inputs
| Mandate | Call | Deadline | Additional Info |
| NEW! Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Call for written submissions – Country visit to Argentina (12-21 Sep 2018) | 20 Jul 2018 | Questionnaire EN / ES |
| NEW! Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty | Call for written submissions – Country visit to the UK (6-16 Nov 2018) | 14 Sep 2018 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy | Consultation on “Gender Perspectives on Privacy” | 30 Sep 2018 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on the right to development | Initiating discussions on human rights compliant development policies (for the Americas – in October 2018, in Panama, Panama and for Asia – in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 2018) | NA | Read more
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| NEW! Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders | In view of the 20th anniversary of the UN Declaration on human rights defenders, the Special Rapporteur prepared a Concept Note that captures the ideas, key messages and activities he would like to propose for this anniversary. If you have any comment, please send it to defenders@ohchr.org | NA | Concept Note EN / FR / ES |
Country visits by the Independent Expert on SOGI
The UN Independent Expert on SOGI, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, undertakes 1-3 fact-finding country visits per year as part of his mandate. His predecessor, Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn, visited Argentina in March 2017. Check his report on this visit here: EN / FR / ES / AR / RU / ZH
In March 2018, Victor Madrigal-Borloz made 12 country visit requests, and in this section you may find information about current status of the requests.
Additionally, on 4 July 2018 Malta invited the Independent Expert to visit their country. Up-to-date information about country visits may be found here.
If you wish to engage with ILGA with regard to the Independent Expert’s fact-finding visit to your country, please contact us (kseniya@silga.com).
| Country | Current Status |
| Argentina | Visit conducted on 1-10 Mar 2017 |
| Armenia | Request to postpone (17 April 2018) |
| Burkina Faso | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Cambodia | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Georgia | Accepting dates from 25 Sep to 5 Oct 2018 (18 Jul 2018) |
| Ghana | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Kenya | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Malta | Invitation Country Visit (4 Jul 2018) |
| Nepal | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Mozambique | Acceptance of visit request for December 2018 (12 Apr 2018) |
| Poland | Request to postpone (15 May 2018) |
| Sri Lanka | Acceptance of visit request for the second half 2019 (17 Apr 2018) |
| Thailand | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Ukraine | The Ukrainian delegation confirmed their acceptance of the visit during an interactive dialogue with the IE on 18 Jun 2018.
Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
Upcoming country visits by other mandates
This information is regularly updated by the OHCHR here. To find out how you can support the visits, please contact the respective mandate-holder at their email, found in the OHCHR directory.
| Country | Mandate | Dates |
| Guatemala | Independence of judges | 20-28 Aug 2018 |
| Argentina | Food | 12-21 Sep 2018 |
| Malaysia | Sale of children | 24 Sep-1 Oct 2018 |
| Egypt |  Housing |
24 Sep-3 Oct 2018 |
| Poland | Cultural rights |
24 Sep-5 Oct 2018 |
| Italy | Slavery | 3-12 Oct 2018 |
| Argentina | Freedom of expression |
5-15 Oct 2018 |
| Morocco | Independence of judges | 24 Oct-1 Nov 2018 |
| Canada | Health |
29 Oct-9 Nov 2018 |
| United Kingdom | Extreme poverty |
06-16 Nov 2018 |
| Cape Verde | Right to development | Nov 2018 |
| Uruguay | Privacy | Nov 2018 |
| Malaysia | Water and sanitation |
21 Nov-4 Dec 2018 |
| NEW! Bhutan | Arbitrary detention | 14-25 Jan 2019 |
| France | Housing |
28 Jan-6 Feb 2019 |
| Malaysia | Extreme poverty |
12-22 Aug 2019 |