INFO NOTE ON UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES – JUNE 2019
Summary
This issue includes:
Call for inputs: Development; Disability; Environment; Foreign debt; Freedom of assembly and association; Racism; 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.; Terrorism
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.: Brazil; Ecuador; Gambia; Greece; Honduras; Hungary; Kyrgyzstan; Malaysia; Mongolia; Nigeria; Norway; Qatar; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Switzerland
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Civil societies organisations worldwide are urging the Human Rights Councilan inter-governmental body within the United Nations which has the responsibility to promote and protect human rights. It is comprised of 47 member States, each elected to 3-year terms by the 193 member States of the United Nations. to renew the mandate of the Independent Expert on violence and discriminationunequal or unfair treatment which can be based on a range of grounds - such as age, ethnic background, disability, and diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions or sex characteristics, amongst others. on the basis of SOGIabbreviation standing for sexual orientation and gender identity during its 41st session. Click here to sign the statement before 26 June 2019, and join the #RenewIESOGI campaign!
Calls for input
| Mandate | Call | Deadline | Additional Info |
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 Public consultation in Geneva, Switzerland: Marginalisation and exclusion of LGBT people from socio-cultural and economic environments |
25 Jun 2019 | Read more: |
| Special Rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association | Call for inputs: Country visit to Sri Lanka (15-26 Jul 2019) |
25 Jun 2019 | Read more |
| NEW! Special Rapporteur on racism, racial discriminationunequal or unfair treatment which can be based on a range of grounds - such as age, ethnic background, disability, and diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions or sex characteristics, amongst others., xenophobia and related intolerance | Call for submissions: Reparations, racial justice, and equality (thematic report to the 74th GA) | 30 Jun 2019 | Read more: |
| NEW! Special Rapporteur on countering terrorism | Call for submissions: “Soft law” and informal lawmaking in the global counter-terrorism architecture (thematic report to the 74th GA in Sep 2019) | 30 Jun 2019 | Read more |
| NEW! Special Rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association | Call for inputs: The impact of restrictions to the rights to freedom of assembly and association on development (thematic report to the 74th GA in Sep 2019) | 2 Jul 2019 | Read more |
| Independent Expert on foreign debt | Call for contributions: Private debt and human rights (thematic report to the 43rd HRC in Mar 2019) |
31 Jul 2019 | Read more: |
| Special Rapporteur on the environment | Call for input: Country visit to Norway (12-23 Sep 2019) | 31 Jul 2019 | Read more |
| NEW! Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities | Call for submissions: Good practices on effective access to justice for persons with disabilities | 15 Aug 2019 | Read more
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| NEW! Special Rapporteur on the right to development | Call for submissions: Country visit to Switzerland (23 Sep-2 Oct 2019) | 31 Aug 2019 | Read more: |
= Requests information on LGBTIacronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people. Although this is not the acronym available to describe people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics, it is the most commonly used in United Nations spaces and advocacy. persons.
Country visits by the Independent Expert on SOGI
The UN Independent Expert on SOGIabbreviation standing for sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, undertakes 1 to 3 fact-finding 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. per year.
In 2019, he is visiting Ukraine and Sri Lanka.
In 2018, he visited Georgia and Mozambique.
In 2017, his predecessor Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn visited Argentina.
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.
If you wish to engage with ILGA with regard to the Independent Expert’s visit to your country, please contact us ([email protected]).
| Country | Current Status |
| Argentina* | Visit conducted on 1-10 Mar 2017.
End of Mission Statement: English – Spanish |
| Armenia* | Request to postpone (17 April 2018) |
| Burkina Faso | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Cambodia | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Georgia* | Visit conducted on 25 Sep to 5 Oct 2018.
End of Mission Statement: English – Georgian |
| 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* | Visit conducted on 3-10 Dec 2018.
End of Mission Statement: English – Portuguese Press Release: English – Portuguese |
| Poland* | Request to postpone (15 May 2018) |
| Sri Lanka* | NEW! Visit postponed to 28 Oct to 8 Nov 2019. |
| Thailand* | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Ukraine* | Visit conducted on 30 Apr to 10 May 2019.
End of Mission Statement: English |
* Countries with standing invitations. A standing invitation is an open invitation extended by a Government to all thematic special proceduresindependent human rights experts within the UN Human Rights Council with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. They are non-paid and elected for 3-year mandates that can be re-conducted for another three years. Special procedures can undertake country visits, and act on individual cases of reported violations by sending communications to States and others. They also engage in advocacy, raise public awareness, provide advice for technical cooperation, and contribute to the development of international human rights standards.
. By extending a standing invitation States announce that they will always accept requests to visit from all special proceduresindependent human rights experts within the UN Human Rights Council with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. They are non-paid and elected for 3-year mandates that can be re-conducted for another three years. Special procedures can undertake country visits, and act on individual cases of reported violations by sending communications to States and others. They also engage in advocacy, raise public awareness, provide advice for technical cooperation, and contribute to the development of international human rights standards.
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Upcoming country visits by other mandates
This information is regularly updated by the OHCHR here. To find outbeing open about their diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or sex characteristics. how you can support the visits, please contact the respective mandate-holder at their email, found in the OHCHR directory.
| Country | Mandate | Dates |
| NEW! Kyrgyzstan | Disappearances | 25-30 Jun 2019 |
| Hungary | Migrants | 10-17 Jul 2019 |
| Sri Lanka | Freedom of assembly and association |
15-26 Jul 2019 |
| Malaysia | Extreme poverty |
12-22 Aug 2019 |
| Sri Lanka | Freedom of religion |
15-24 Aug 2019 |
| Honduras | Independence of judges and lawyers | 16-22 Aug 2019 |
| NEW! Honduras | Business | 19-28 Aug 2019 |
| Mongolia | Foreign debt | 2-11 Sep 2019 |
| Norway | Environment | 12-23 Sep 2019 |
| South Africa | Albinism | 16-26 Sep 2019 |
| NEW! Ecuador | Health |
17-26 Sep 2019 |
| Nigeria | Housing |
17-26 Sep 2019 |
| Switzerland | Development | 23 Sep – 2 Oct 2019 |
| Norway | Disability | 2-11 Oct 2019 |
| Gambia | Sale and sexual exploitation of children |
21-29 Oct 2019 |
| Qatar | Arbitrary detention | 3-14 Nov 2019 |
| Qatar | Racism |
24 Nov – 1 Dec 2019 |
| NEW! Brazil | Toxic waste | 2-13 Dec 2019 |
| Greece | Arbitrary detention | 2-13 Dec 2019 |
| Qatar | Education | 8-16 Dec 2019 |
| Qatar | Slavery | 13-20 Jan 2020 |
| Spain | Extreme poverty |
27 Jan – 7 Feb 2020 |
= Mandate frequently considers LGBTIacronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people. Although this is not the acronym available to describe people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics, it is the most commonly used in United Nations spaces and advocacy. issues.