SPECIAL PROCEDURES FACTSHEETS

The factsheets compile the references and recommendations made by these experts to 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. More persons, 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. More, 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. More and expression, and sex characteristicsa term that refers to physical features relating to sex - including genitalia and other sexual and reproductive anatomy, chromosomes, hormones, and secondary physical features emerging from puberty. More (SOGIESCabbreviation standing for sexual orientation and gender identity & expression, and sex characteristics. More). They cover all the thematic and country visit reports, and the communications sent to States between January 2011 and December 2021.

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• Independent Expert on protection against 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. More based on sexual orientation and gender identity
• Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons
• Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
• Independent Expert on foreign debt
• Independent expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
• Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity
• Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali
• Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia
• Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Central African Republic

• Working Group on discrimination against women and girls
• Working Group on arbitrary detention
• Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances
• Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
• Working group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination
• Working Group on people of African descent

• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
• Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
• Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
• Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
• Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment
• Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
• Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
• Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
• Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
• Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
• Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
• Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
• Special Rapporteur on minority issues
• Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
• Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context
• Special Rapporteur on the right to education
• Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
• Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers
• Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy
• Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children
• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
• Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children
• Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
• Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
• Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
• Special Rapporteur on the right to development
• Special Rapporteur on the right to food
• Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes
• Special Rapporteur on the environment
• Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members
• Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967