Info Note on UN Special Procedures (April 2023): Calls for input and upcoming country visits

 

This is the 65th 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; Cultural rights; Environment; Foreign debt; Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Hazardous substances and wastes; Housing; Independence of judges and lawyers; Indigenous peoples; Minority issues; Older persons; Racism; Sale of children; Slavery; Unilateral coercive measures; Water and sanitation.

Upcoming country visitsArgentina; Australia; Bangladesh; Botswana; Canada; Chile; Costa Rica; Denmark; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Finland; Honduras; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Poland; Serbia; South Africa; Syrian Arab Republic; Tajikistan; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

  

Calls for input

 

Mandate

Call

Deadline

Additional Info

Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

Call for inputs: report on “Development of practical tools to assist law enforcement bodies in promoting and protecting human rights in the context of peaceful protests” (to be presented at the HRC 55)

07 Apr 2023

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Questionnaire: EN | SP | FR

Special Rapporteur on minority issues

Call for inputs for the country visit of the Special Rapporteur to Costa Rica

07 Apr 2023

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NEW!!! Working Group on African descent

Call for inputs: Economic Empowerment of people of African descent (to be presented at the HRC 54 and the GA 78)

09 Apr 2023

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Special Rapporteur on slavery

Call for inputs: report on the use of technology in facilitating and preventing contemporary forms of slavery (to be presented at the GA 78)

14 Apr 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on cultural rights

Call for inputs: report on cultural rights and the governance of development (to be presented at the GA 78)

14 Apr 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on water and sanitation

Call for inputs: report on “Fulfilling the human rights of those living in poverty and restoring the health of aquatic ecosystems: two converging challenges” (to be presented at the HRC 54)

20 Apr 2023

Read moreQuestionnaire:EN | SP

Special Rapporteur on sale of children

Call for input: report on “Addressing the exploitation and sexual abuse of children in the context of travel and tourism; a closer look at the phenomena of voluntourism” (to be presented at the GA 78)

21 Apr 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on indigenous peoples

Call for input: report on “Green financing, a just transition to protect Indigenous Peoples’ rights” (to be presented at the HRC 54)

21 Apr 2023

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Special Rapporteur on housing

Call for inputs: report on “A place to live in dignity for all: Make housing affordable” (to be presented at the GA 78)

30 Apr 2023

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Questionnaire: EN

Special Rapporteur on environment

Call for inputs: report on “Promoting Environmental Democracy: Procedural elements of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment” (to be presented at the GA 78)

01 May 2023

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Questionnaire: EN | SP | FR

NEW!!! Independent Expert on older persons

Call for inputs: report on older persons in the context of climate change-induced disasters and building back better (to be presented at the GA 78)

01 May 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers

Call for inputs: report on legal empowerment to expand and transform access to justice  (to be presented at the GA 78)

05 May 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on sale of children

Call for inputs for the country visit of the Special Rapporteur to Uruguay

05 May 2023

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NEW!!! Independent Expert on foreign debt

Call for inputs: report on “Multiple crises, fiscal systems and human rights” (to be presented at the GA 78)

08 May 2023

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Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and wastes

Call for submissions in advance of the visit by the Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and wastes to Australia

15 May 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on racism

Call for inputs: report on “Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” (to be presented at the GA 78)

26 May 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on slavery

Call for inputs for the country visit of the Special Rapporteur to Canada

31 May 2023

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Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures

Calls for inputs for the Sanctions Research Platform

31 Dec 2023

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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 the United States of America in 2022, 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 Fiji and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (both 24 May 2022).

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]).

Country

Current Status

Argentina*

Visit conducted on 1–10 Mar 2017.

End of Mission Statement: EnglishSpanish

Press Release: EnglishSpanish

Country visit report: E / F / S / A / C / R

Armenia*

Request to postpone (17 Apr 2018)

Burkina Faso

Reminder visit request – for 2021 (17 Jan 2020)

Cambodia

Visit conducted on 10–20 Jan 2023.

End of Mission Statement: English

Colombia*

Request to postpone (7 Apr 2020)

Fiji*

 Visit request (24 May 2022)

Georgia*

Visit conducted on 25 Sep to 5 Oct 2018.

End of Mission Statement: EnglishGeorgian

Press Release: EnglishGeorgian

Country visit report: E / F / S / A / C / R

Ghana*

Reminder visit request – for 2021 (7 Jan 2020)

India*

Visit request (7 Jan 2020)

Japan*

Visit request for second half of 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Kenya*

Reminder visit request – for 2021 (7 Jan 2020)

Malta*

Invitation Country Visit (4 Jul 2018)

     Mozambique*

Visit conducted on 3-10 Dec 2018.

End of Mission Statement: EnglishPortuguese

Press Release: EnglishPortuguese

Country visit report: E / F / S / A / C / R

Nepal

Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020)

Poland*

Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020)

Sri Lanka*

Request to postpone to 2020 (2 Oct 2019).

Background note

Thailand*

Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020)

Tunisia*

Visit conducted on 8 -18 Jun 2021

End of Mission Statement: EnglishArabicFrench

Press Release: EnglishArabicFrench

Country visit report: E / F / S / A / C / R

Ukraine*

Visit conducted on 30 Apr to 10 May 2019.

End of Mission Statement: EnglishUkrainian

Press Release: EnglishRussianUkrainian

Country visit report: E / F / S / A / C / R

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland*

Accepting dates: 24 Apr – 5 May 2023 (6 Feb 2023)

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 to support the visits, please contact the respective mandate-holders at their e-mail addresses, available here.

Country

Mandate

Dates

POSTPONED!!!  Singapore

Terrorism

12 – 19 Jul 2021

POSTPONED!!!  Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mercenaries

3 – 11 Oct 2021

POSTPONED!!!  Mozambique

Summary executions

6 – 21 Nov 2021

POSTPONED!!! Russian Federation

Minority issues

1 – 18 Apr 2022

Tajikistan

Freedom of religion

11 – 21 Apr 2023

Luxembourg

Health

17 – 26 Apr 2023

Botswana

Disabilities

24 Apr – 4 May 2023

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Sexual orientation and gender identity

24 Apr – 5 May 2023

NEW!!! Syrian Arab Republic

Water and sanitation

24 Apr – 3 May 2023

NEW!!! Georgia

International order

26 Apr – 5 May 2023

Liechtenstein

Foreign debt

1 May  – 31 Aug 2023

Chile

Environment

3 – 12 May 2023 

Costa Rica

Minority issues

4 – 16 May 2023

NEW!!! Peru

Freedom of peaceful assembly

8 – 17 May 2023

NEW!!! Tunisia

   Independence of judges and lawyers

16 – 26 May 2023

Bangladesh

Extreme poverty

17 – 29 May 2023

NEW!!! Colombia

Trafficking

22 – 31 May 2023

NEW!!! Malta

Discrimination against women and girls

26 Jun – 7 Jul 2023

Costa Rica

Health

18 – 28 Jul 2023

South Africa

Racism

21 – 30 Aug 2023

Canada

Slavery

23 Aug – 6 Sep 2023

  Ecuador

Extreme poverty

28 Aug – 8 Sep 2023

Australia

Hazardous substances and wastes

28 Aug – 8 Sep 2023

NEW!!! Mauritania

Discrimination against women and girls

25 Sep – 6 Oct 2023

Finland

Education

21 – 30 Nov 2023

 

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