This is the 60th monthly info note by ILGA World on UN Special Procedures: call for inputs and upcoming country visits
This issue includes:
Call for inputs: African Descent; Climate Change; Cultural Rights; Enforced Disappearances; Health; Mercenaries; Poverty; Sale of Children; Terrorism; Toxics; Trafficking; Unilateral Coercive Measures; Violence against Women.
Upcoming country visits: Albania; Argentina; Australia; Bangladesh; Botswana; Costa Rica; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Ethiopia; Germany; Ghana; Libya; Liechtenstein; Morocco; Pakistan; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Serbia; South Sudan; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Joint Submission to the Independent Expert on SOGI
The Independent Expert on SOGI is planning to produce a report on Religion and Belief and will be collecting inputs by the end of this year. The mandate will be seeking information on the intersections between SOGI and religion and the implications of religion and belief to LGBTI communities.
ILGA World will be collecting information on this topic to prepare a joint submission to the Independent Expert. If you have any data relating to LGBTI communities and religion, please reach out to us at [email protected].
Call for Inputs
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Mandate |
Call |
Deadline |
Additional Info |
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Working Group on people of African descent |
Call for input on upcoming visit to Australia |
1 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty |
Call for submissions in advance of visit to Morocco
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4 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on Trafficking |
Calls for input on upcoming visit to South Sudan |
11 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on climate change |
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11 Nov 2022
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Questionnaire:
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights |
Call for inputs in advance of country visit to Ghana |
11 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the sale of children |
Call for inputs on upcoming country visit to the Republic of the Philippines |
14 Nov 2022 |
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Working Group on people of African descent |
Call for input on upcoming visit to United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland |
15 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on health |
Calls for input on digital innovation, technologies and the right to health (to be presented at the HRC 53)
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15 Nov 2022 |
Questionnaire:
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Special Rapporteur on the sale of children |
Call for input on report on reparations for child victims and survivors of sale and sexual exploitation (to be presented at the HRC 52) |
19 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on cultural rights |
Call for inputs for a report on cultural rights and migration (to be presented at the HRC 52)
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25 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on Violence against women |
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30 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Working Group on mercenaries |
Calls for input on upcoming visit to Armenia |
15 Dec 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on terrorism |
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31 Dec 2022 |
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NEW!!! Working Group on enforced disappearances |
Call for inputs for a thematic study by the Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances on “new technologies and enforced disappearances” (to be presented at the HRC 54)
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3 Feb 2023 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures |
Calls for input on Sanctions Research Platform |
31 Dec 2023 |
: requests information on LGBTI persons
Country visits by the Independent Expert on SOGI
The UN Independent Expert on SOGI, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, undertakes 1 to 3 fact-finding country visits per year.
He visited Tunisia in 2021, Ukraine in 2019, and Georgia and Mozambique in 2018. In 2017, his predecessor Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn visited Argentina.
In March 2018, 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 the United States of America (26 July 2021).
In this section, you may find information about 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 ([email protected]).
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Country |
Current Status |
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Argentina* |
Visit conducted on 1-10 Mar 2017. End of Mission Statement: English – Spanish |
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Armenia* |
Request to postpone (17 Apr 2018) |
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Burkina Faso |
Reminder visit request – for 2021 (17 Jan 2020) |
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Cambodia |
NEW!!! Proposal of dates: 10 –20 Jan 2023 (17 Oct 2022) |
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Colombia* |
Request to postpone (7 Apr 2020) |
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Fiji* |
Visit request (24 May 2022) |
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Georgia* |
Visit conducted on 25 Sep to 5 Oct 2018. End of Mission Statement: English – Georgian |
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Ghana* |
Reminder visit request – for 2021 (7 Jan 2020) |
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India* |
Visit request (7 Jan 2020) |
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Japan* |
Visit request for second half of 2020 (8 Oct 2019) |
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Kenya* |
Reminder visit request – for 2021 (7 Jan 2020) |
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Malta* |
Invitation Country Visit (4 Jul 2018) |
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Mozambique* |
Visit conducted on 3-10 Dec 2018. End of Mission Statement: English – Portuguese Press Release: English – Portuguese Country visit report: E / F / S / A / C / R
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Nepal |
Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
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Poland* |
Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
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Sri Lanka* |
Request to postpone to 2020 (2 Oct 2019). |
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Thailand* |
Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
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Tunisia* |
Visit conducted on 8 -18 Jun 2021 |
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Ukraine* |
Visit conducted on 30 Apr to 10 May 2019. End of Mission Statement: English - Ukrainian |
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland* |
Visit request (24 May 2022) |
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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 you can support the visits, please contact the respective mandate-holders at their e-mail addresses, available here.
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Country |
Mandate |
Dates |
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POSTPONED!!! Cyprus |
Disappearances |
21-30 Jun 2021 |
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POSTPONED!!! Singapore |
Terrorism |
12-19 Jul 2021 |
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POSTPONED!!! Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Mercenaries |
3-11 Oct 2021 |
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POSTPONED!!! Mozambique |
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6- 21 Nov 2021 |
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POSTPONED!!! Russian Federation |
Minority issues |
1-18 April 2022 |
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NEW!!! Syrian Arab Republic |
Unilateral coercive measures |
30 Oct- 10 Nov 2022 |
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Serbia |
Truth |
3-11 Nov 2022 |
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Bangladesh |
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7 -17 Nov 2022 |
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Ethiopia |
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7-18 Nov 2022 |
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Argentina |
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14-25 Nov 2022 |
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Paraguay |
Minority issues |
14-25 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Albania |
Development |
15-24 Nov 2022 |
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Costa Rica |
Slavery |
16 –25 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Costa Rica |
Indigenous Peoples |
16-25 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Serbia |
Truth |
22 Nov-2 Dec 2022 |
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Bangladesh |
Leprosy |
28 Nov – 07 Dec 2022 |
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NEW!!! Philippines |
Sale of Children |
28 Nov-8 Dec 2022 |
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NEW!!! Peru |
Water and Sanitation |
1 Dec-15 Dec 2022 |
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Germany |
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28 Nov –9 Dec 2022 |
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Tajikistan |
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28 Nov-9 Dec 2022 |
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Ghana |
Hazardous Substances and Wastes |
30 Nov-13 Dec 2022 |
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South Sudan |
Trafficking |
5 – 14 Dec 2022 |
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POSTPONED!!! Pakistan |
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5-16 Dec 2022 |
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NEW!!! Libya |
Violence against Women |
11-20 Dec 2022 |
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Australia |
African Descent |
12-20 Dec 2022 |
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Morocco |
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6-19 Dec 2022 |
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United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland |
African Descent |
18-27 Jan 2023 |
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NEW!!! Serbia |
Freedom of Expression |
23 Jan-3 Feb 2023 |
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Argentina |
Business Enterprises |
20 Feb-2 Mar 2023 |
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NEW!!! Dominican Republic |
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28 Feb –10 Mar 2023 |
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NEW!!! Syrian Arab Republic |
Water and sanitation |
17-29 Apr 2023 |
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Botswana |
Disabilities |
24 Apr-04 May 2023 |
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Liechtenstein |
Foreign debt |
12-19 Jun 2023 |
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Ecuador |
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28 Aug – 8 Sep 2023 |
: Mandate frequently considers LGBTI issues