This is the 41st monthly info note by ILGA World on UN Special Procedures and sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC).
This issue includes:
Call for inputs: Environment; Housing; Leprosy; Older persons; Peaceful assembly and association; Sale of children; Slavery; Violence against women; Water and Sanitation
Upcoming country visits: Botswana, Finland, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Mexico, Nepal, Paraguay, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Venezuela
Join ILGA World in supporting LGBTI communities
The Independent Expert on older persons is collecting information on the situation of LGBTI older persons, particularly LBTI older women (deadline 15 Apr 2021).
The Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing is collecting information on housing discrimination and spatial segregation of certain groups, including LGBTI persons, for his upcoming report (deadline 30 April 2021).
The Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children is collecting information on the gender dimension of the sale and sexual exploitation of children and the integration of a human rights-based and a non-binary approach to combating and eradicating sale and sexual exploitation of children (deadline 10 May 2021).
You can find more information on the calls in a section below.
If you want to participate in joint submissions coordinated by ILGA World, please contact Kseniya Kirichenko, ILGA World’s Programmes Coordinator ([email protected])!
Call for inputs
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Mandate |
Call |
Deadline |
Additional Info |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing |
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12 Apr 2021 |
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NEW!!! Independent Expert on older persons |
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15 Apr 2021 |
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NEW!!! Independent Expert on older persons |
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15 Apr 2021 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation |
Call for inputs: report on mandate planning (to be presented at the 48th session of the Human Rights Council) and report on commodification of water (to be presented at the 76th session of the General Assembly) |
15 Apr 2021 |
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Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery |
Call for inputs: report on the role of organised criminal groups with regards to contemporary forms of slavery (to be presented to the 76th session of the General Assembly, Oct 2021) |
16 Apr 2021 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing |
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30 Apr 2021 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on violence against women |
Call for inputs: report on femicide (to be presented to the 76th session of the General Assembly, Oct 2021) |
30 Apr 2021 |
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Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment |
Call for inputs: report focusing on human rights and associated obligations related to the adverse environmental impacts of the global food system (to be presented to the General Assembly later in 2021) |
1 May 2021 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members |
Call for inputs: report focusing on national laws, regulations, resolutions, and policies that have discriminatory impacts on persons affected by leprosy and measures as well as challenges to abolish/amend them (to be presented to the General Assembly in 2021) |
10 May 2021 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children |
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10 May 2021 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association |
Call for inputs: report on the enjoyment of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association to advance climate justice (to be presented to the General Assembly at its 76th session) |
30 May 2021 |
: 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 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), and Cambodia (28 March 2020).
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 |
Proposed dates September 2021 (14 Dec 2020) |
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Colombia* |
Request to postpone (7 Apr 2020) |
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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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Nepal |
Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
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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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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* |
Proposed dates from 18 May 2021 to 28 May 2021 (15 Dec 2020) |
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Ukraine* |
Visit conducted on 30 Apr to 10 May 2019. End of Mission Statement: English - Ukrainian |
* 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!!! Tunisia |
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16-27 Nov 2020 |
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POSTPONED!!! Venezuela |
Unilateral coercive measures |
1-12 Feb 2021 |
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Mexico |
Internally displaced persons |
15 - 27 Mar 2021 |
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Finland |
Older persons |
16-25 Mar 2021 |
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Singapore |
Terrorism |
5-12 Apr 2021 |
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POSTPONED!!! Kyrgyzstan |
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1-12 Nov 2021 |
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POSTPONED!!! Paraguay |
Minority Issues |
24 May - 4 June 2021 |
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Mauritania |
Slavery |
22 June - 1 July 2021 |
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Botswana |
Disability |
20-29 July 2021 |
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NEW!!! Sri Lanka |
Slavery |
23 Aug – 1 Sep 2021 |
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Nepal |
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6-17 Sept 2021 |