SUBMISSIONS TO INFORM SPECIAL PROCEDURES THEMATIC REPORTS

Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• Joint submission for the report on violence and discrimination experienced by lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women
  • Joint submission by ILGA World; LESLAC: Red de organizaciones de lesbianas y mujeres bisexuales de Latinoamérica y el Caribe; Women Enabled International; Equal Namibia; Fundación Leswarmi (mujeres lesbianas y bisexuales de comunidades indígenas); Asociación Gitanas Feministas por la Diversidad; and individual human rights defenders from Nigeria

UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health<

• Response to the call for inputs to the report on health as an enabler of dignity
  • Joint submission by Centre for Reproductive Rights, ILGA World, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), and Women Enabled International

Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls

• Response to the call for inputs to the report on violence against mothers
  • Joint submission by Centre for Reproductive Rights, ILGA World, Just Futures Collaborative, Pregnancy Justice, Global Alliance against Traffic in Women, Gender Centre – Geneva Graduate Institute, Woodhull Freedom Foundation, DEMUS, LIFS Peru, and the Global Health Justice Partnership of Yale Law and Public Health Schools

Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples

• Response to the call for input on the report on historical and contemporary forms of violations against indigenous women and girls’ reproductive health and rights
  • Joint submission The Centre for Reproductive Rights and ILGA World

Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• Submission to the report on sexual orientation and gender identity in relation to forced displacement
  • Joint submission by ILGA World, TGEU, Mitini Nepal, Young Queer Alliance Mauritius,  Out for Sustainability, Fenix Aid Org, The Office against Discrimination, Racism, and Intolerance (ODRI), and independent LGBTI human rights defenders from South Africa and Georgia
• Input from local civil society to the report on LGBT people and the right to education
  • Joint submission by ILGA World; Red LESLAC, ILGALAC, Frente Nacional de organizaciones LGBTI+ Orgullo y Lucha (Argentina); Nazariya: A Queer Feminist Resource Group (India); Red de Juristas por los Derechos Sexuales (Cuba); and individual LGBTI defenders from Paraguay, Tanzania and Uganda

Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls

• Response by 23 organisations to the call for inputs on the “Forms of sex-based violence against women and girls: New frontiers and emerging issues” report
• Input by 18 organisations to the addendum to the report on the concept of consent in relation to violence against women and girls

Special Rapporteur on the right to development

• Response to the call for input for the “Nexus between gender equality and the right to development” report
  • Joint submission by Centre for Reproductive Rights, ILGA World, and IPPF.

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression

• Freedom of expression of LGBTI people in the Philippines (joint submission by ILGA World, Babaylanes, Bahaghari, and PANTAY on the occasion of the mandate holder’s country visit)

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief

• LGBTI people and freedom of religion or belief in Hungary (joint submission by ILGA World and Háttér Society on the occasion of the mandate holder’s country visit)

Submissions to the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• Restrictions on the freedom of expression, association and assembly of LGBTI communities
  • in Africa
  • in the Americas
  • in Asia
  • in Europe
• Electoral participation of LGBTI people
  • in Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania
  • in the Americas

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences

• Input for the Special Rapporteur’s report to the 79th session of the UN General Assembly on violence against women and girls in sport – joint submission by TGEU, GATE, ILGA World
  • Additional input by TGEU, GATE, ILGA World
• Violence against LBTI women and girls in sports – joint submission by ILGA World, Sport & Rights Alliance, ODRI, and 6Rang

Submission to the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights

• LGBTI people’s right to participate in sports

Submissions to the Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial summary or arbitrary executions

• Killings of LGBTIQ+ people in Africa, the Americas and Europe
• Killings of LGBTIQ+ people in Asia

Submission to the Independent Expert on a democratic and equitable international order

• LGBTI inclusion in a democratic and equitable international order

 Submission to the Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders

• LGBTI human rights defenders engagement with the Agenda 2030

Submissions to the Working Group on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises

• LGBTI people’s human rights in the context of business activities

Submissions to the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• The impact of colonial legacies in the lives of LGBTI+ and other ancestral sexual and gender-diverse persons

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing and the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights 

• Decriminalisation of homelessness and extreme poverty: Addressing the vulnerabilities and global challenges for LGBTI people

Submission to the Working Group on discrimination against Women and Girls

• Feedback to inform the Working Group on lessons learned, key challenges and opportunities related to the mandate, and its impact

Submissions to the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in persons, especially women and children

• “Yo no quiero esto para mi vida”: Trata de personas lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, trans y de género diverso en Colombia
• Trata de personas lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y trans en Colombia

Submissions to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons

• Desplazamiento interno y construcción de paz con las personas LGBTIQ+ en Colombia

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression

• Gendered disinformation in the context of LGBTI communities

Submissions to the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• input to a thematic report: LGBTI and gender non-conforming people’s right to health and the realisation of SDG 3: global needs, gaps and trends
• input to a thematic report: peace, security, sexual orientation and gender identity in Afghanistan (joint submission with Outright Action International)
• input to a thematic report: peace, security, sexual orientation and gender identity in Afghanistan (joint submission with ILGA Asia)
• input to a thematic report: human rights of LGBT persons and the armed conflict in Colombia
• input to a thematic report: freedom of religion and belief and SOGI rights
• inputs on the country visit to the United States

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

• follow-up on the official visits to Armenia, Sri Lanka, and Tunisia

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health

• Violence and its impact on LGBTI people’s right to physical and mental health

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against women, its causes and consequences

• violence and its impact on indigenous women and girls of diverse and ancestral SOGIESC

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in persons, especially women and children

• inputs on the country visit to Bangladesh

Submission to the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

• thematic report on poverty and inequality

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences

• Femicides against LBTI women

Submissions to the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons

• The human rights of lesbian, bisexual, trans and intersex (LBTI) older women
• Intersections of ageism and age discrimination with cisheteronormativity, homophobia and transphobia, and discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression

Submission to the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• Input to a thematic report: Gender, sexual orientation and gender identity

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples

• COVID-19 recovery: LGBTQI2S+ indigenous peoples

Submission to the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• The impact of COVID-19 on the human rights of LGBT persons, communities and/or populations

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence

• The multi-layered aspects of a gender perspective in transitional justice processes: LGBTI+ persons

Submissions to the Special Rapporteur on violence against women

• COVID-19 and the increase of domestic and gender-based violence against lesbian and bisexual women and non-binary, trans and intersex persons
• Rape and other forms of sexual violence against lesbian and bisexual women and non-binary, trans and intersex persons

Submission to the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• On marginalisation and exclusion from socio-cultural environments

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on violence against women

• Mistreatment and violence against lesbian and bisexual women and trans persons during reproductive health care with a focus on childbirth

Joint submission to the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy

• Gender perspectives on privacy in the digital era: A joint submission on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and sex characteristics

Joint submission to the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice

• Deprivation of liberty: experiences of lesbian and bisexual women and trans and intersex persons

Joint submission to the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights

• The impact of fundamentalism and extremism on the cultural rights of LBTI individuals