INFO NOTE ON UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES (APRIL 2022): CALL FOR INPUTS AND UPCOMING COUNTRY VISITS
This is the 53rd 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; Disabilities; Extreme poverty; Food; Hazardous substances and waste; Indigenous peoples; Migrants; Mercenaries; Older persons; Sale of children; Sexual orientation and gender identity; Trafficking; Truth; Violence against women
Upcoming country visits: Algeria; Argentina; Brazil; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Ethiopia; Greece; Kyrgyzstan; Maldives; Mauritania; Moldova; Netherlands; Pakistan; Paraguay; Peru; Poland; Russian Federation; Tunisia; United States of America
IE on SOGI new call for inputs, country visit to USA
The Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity has published a call for inputs for his upcoming visit to the United States of America (Deadline 15 April 2022)
If you have any data on the human rights situation of LGBTI communities in USA; particularly focusing on cases of violence and discrimination based on SOGI – please send your inputs to [email protected]
You can send your information to contribute to ILGA World’s submission to the following email: [email protected] before the 13th of April.
For more information read here.
Call for inputs
| Mandate | Call | Deadline | Additional Info |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Call for inputs: Report on impact of the COVID-19 on the right to food | 8 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children | Call for inputs: Addressing the vulnerabilities of children to sale and sexual exploitation in the framework of the SDGs (to be presented at the GA77) | 8 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Call for inputs: report on “Indigenous Women and the Development, Application, Preservation and Transmission of Scientific Knowledge” (to be presented at the HRC51) | 13 April 2022 | Read more
Questionnaire |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Call for inputs: Report on “Protected Areas and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: the Obligations of States and International Organizations” (to be presented at the GA77) | 13 April 2022 | Read more
Questionnaire |
| Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Call for inputs: Report on the impact of climate change and the protection of the human rights of migrants (to be presented at the GA77) | 14 April 2022 | Read more
Questionnaire |
| NEW!!! Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity | Call for inputs on upcoming country visit to the United States of America |
15 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on the use of mercenaries | Call for inputs: Report on maritime security (to be presented at the GA77) | 15 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Call for submissions: Thematic report on “The Job Guarantee” (to be presented at the GA77) | 15 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on violence against women | Call for inputs on upcoming visit to Brazil |
24 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and waste | Call for inputs: Report on the impact of toxics on Indigenous peoples (to be presented at the GA77) | 25 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence | Call for inputs: Report on achieving the SDGs through people and victim centred transitional justice measures in post authoritarian and post conflict settings (to be presented at the GA77) | 25 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on trafficking | Call for Inputs: Report on trafficking of persons in the context of climate change (to be presented at the GA77) |
12 May 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities | Call for inputs: Report on armed conflict and disability – the conduct of hostilities, military operations and peacekeeping operations (to be presented at the GA77) | 15 May 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on people of African descent | Call for inputs: Report on the human rights situation of Children of African Descent | 16 May 2022 | Read more |
: 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 |
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* |
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 States of America* |
Acceptance of visit request – 15- 26 Aug 2022 (25 Jan 2022)
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* 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.
| Country | Mandate | Dates |
| POSTPONED!!! Mexico | Internally displaced persons | 15-27 Mar 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Cyprus | Disappearances | 21-30 Jun 2021 |
| 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!!! Serbia | Freedom of expression |
15-24 Nov 2021 |
| Russian Federation | Minority issues | 1 -18 Apr 2022 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Discrimination against women |
4-15 Apr 2022 |
| Mauritania | Slavery | 4 – 13 May 2022 |
| POSTPONED!!! Maldives | Terrorism | 15-24 May 2022 |
| Pakistan | Foreign debt | 16-25 May 2022 |
| Brazil | Violence against women |
23 May – 1 Jun 2022 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Extreme poverty |
23 May – 3 Jun 2022 |
| NEW!!! Greece | Human rights defenders |
13-22 Jun 2022 |
| Argentina | Foreign debt | 1-10 Aug 2022 |
| Maldives | Discrimination against women |
1-12 Aug 2022 |
| Algeria | Freedom of assembly |
12-22 Sep 2022 |
| Ethiopia | Extreme poverty |
7-18 Nov 2022 |
| Argentina | Summary executions |
14-25 Nov 2022 |
| NEW!!! Paraguay | Minority issues | 14-25 Nov 2021 |
| Peru | Water and Sanitation | 28 Nov-9 Dec 2022 |
| Pakistan | Extreme poverty |
5-16 Dec 2022 |
| Ecuador | Extreme poverty |
28 Aug – 3 Dec 2023 |
: Mandate frequently considers LGBTI issues