This is the 59th 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; Discrimination against Women and Girls; Disabilities; Environment; Foreign Debt; Human Rights Defenders; Mercenaries; Minority Issues; Sale of Children; Unilateral Coercive Measures.
Upcoming country visits: Armenia; Australia; Bangladesh; Botswana; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Ethiopia; Germany; Ghana; Liberia; Liechtenstein; Mongolia; Morocco; Pakistan; Paraguay; Peru; Serbia; South Sudan; Tajikistan; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Joint Submission to WG on Discrimination against Women and Girls
The Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls have published a call for inputs for their upcoming report on “Human Security of Women and Girls in the Context of Poverty and Inequality”. The mandate is seeking information on groups of women and girls who face particular barriers to accessing their rights, including on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
ILGA World is collecting information on this topic to prepare a joint submission to the Special Rapporteur. If you have any data relating to LGBTI persons and human trafficking in Bangladesh, please reach out to us at [email protected]
Call for Inputs
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Mandate |
Call |
Deadline |
Additional Info |
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Special Rapporteur on Foreign Debt |
Call for input on International Financial Obligation, Digital Systems and Human Rights (to be presented at the HRC 52)
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30 Sep 2022 |
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Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures |
Call for contributions: “Toward a universal system of monitoring to assess the human rights impact of unilateral sanctions” |
30 Sep 2022 |
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NEW!!! Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls |
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03 Oct 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues
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Call for inputs on upcoming visit to Paraguay |
07 Oct 2022 |
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NEW!!! Working Group on Mercenaries |
Calls for input on upcoming visit to Armenia |
10 Oct 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the Environment |
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14 Oct 2022 |
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Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities |
Call for input: Report on innovation in the design and delivery of services that underpin the right to live independently and be included in the community (to be presented at the HRC 52) |
14 Oct 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders |
Call for input: Report on the positive change achieved by human rights defenders (to be presented at the HRC 52) |
20 Oct 2022 |
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NEW!!! Working Group on People of African Descent |
Call for input on upcoming visit to Australia. |
01 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! 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 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 |
: 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 |
Request to postpone (30 May 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 |
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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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Paraguay |
Toxics and human rights |
3-14 Oct 2022 |
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NEW!!! Mongolia |
Arbitrary detention |
3 –14 Oct 2022 |
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NEW!!!Armenia |
Mercenaries |
16-24 Oct 2022 |
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Bangladesh |
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31 Oct-9 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Liberia |
Business enterprises |
31 Oct –11 Nov 2022 |
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Serbia |
Truth |
3-11 Nov 2022 |
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Bangladesh |
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7 -18 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!!! Costa Rica |
Slavery |
16 –25 Nov 2022 |
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Bangladesh |
Leprosy |
28 Nov – 07 Dec 2022 |
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Peru |
Water and Sanitation |
28 Nov-9 Dec 2022 |
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NEW!!! Germany |
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28 Nov –9 Dec 2022 |
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NEW!!! Tajikistan |
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28 Nov-9 Dec 2022 |
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NEW!!! Ghana |
Hazardous Substances and Wastes |
30 Nov-13 Dec 2022 |
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NEW!!! South Sudan |
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5 – 14 Dec 2022 |
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POSTPONED!!! Pakistan |
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5-16 Dec 2022 |
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NEW!!! Australia |
African Decent |
12-20 Dec 2022 |
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Morocco |
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6-19 Dec 2022 |
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NEW!!! United Kingdom of Great Britian and Northern Ireland |
African Decent |
18-27 Jan 2023 |
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Argentina |
Business Enterprises |
20 Feb-2 Mar 2023 |
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NEW!!! Botswana |
Disabilities |
24 Apr-04 Mar 2023 |
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Liechtenstein |
Foreign debt |
12-19 June 2023 |
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Ecuador |
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28 Aug – 8 Sep 2023 |
: Mandate frequently considers LGBTI issues