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

 

This is the 63rd monthly info note by ILGA World on UN Special Procedures: call for inputs and upcoming country visits

This issue includes:

Call for inputs: Business enterprises; Enforced disappearances; Environment; Foreign debt; Hazardous substances and wastes; Health; Indigenous Peoples; Older persons; Racism; Slavery; Summary executions; Terrorism; Trafficking; Truth justice, reparation & guarantees on non- recurrence; Unilateral coercive measures; Violence against women

Upcoming country visitsArgentina; Armenia; Australia; Bangladesh; Botswana; Canada; 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; Ukraine.

  

Call for Inputs

Mandate

Call

Deadline

Additional Info

Special Rapporteur on Violence against women

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

19 Feb 2023

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Working Group on enforced disappearances

Call for contributions in preparation for the visit of the Working Group to Honduras

28 Feb 2023

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Questionnaire:

SP

Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures

Calls for inputs: report on “The impact of unilateral coercive measures on the right to health” (to be presented at the HRC 54) and on “Secondary sanctions, over-compliance and human rights” (to be presented at the GA 78)

28 Feb 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on terrorism

 Call for inputs: report on global study on the impact of counter-terrorism measures on civil society and civic space

28 Feb 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on trafficking

 Call for inputs: report on trafficking in persons and protection of refugees, stateless persons and internally displaced persons

28 Feb 2023

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NEW!!! Independent Expert on older persons

 Call for inputs: report on violence, abuse and neglect of older persons rights (to be presented at the HRC 54)

01 Mar 2023

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Questionnaire:

EN | SP | FR

NEW!!! Working Group on business enterprises

 Call for inputs: report on development finance institutions and human rights (to be presented at the HRC 53)

03 Mar 2023

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Questionnaire: EN | SP | FR

NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on summary executions

Call for input: Deaths in custody (to be presented at the HRC 53)

06 Mar 2023

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Questionnaire: EN | SP | FR

NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and wastes

Call for inputs: report on toxic impacts of some climate change solutions

06 Mar 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on indigenous peoples

Call for inputs: report on “Tourism and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” (to be presented at the GA 78)

08 Mar 2023

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NEW!!! Independent Expert on SOGI

 Call for inputs: To inform the country visit of the IE to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

12 Mar 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on health

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

15 Mar 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on racism

Call for inputs: report on combatting glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices of racism (to be presented at the HRC 53)

17 Mar 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on racism

Call for inputs: to inform the report on strategic vision for the fulfillment of the mandate (to be presented at the  HRC 53)

17 Mar 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on Truth justice, reparation & guarantees on non- recurrence

Call for inputs: report on financing of reparations owed to victims of serious violations of human rights and humanitarian law (to be presented at the GA 78)

17 Mar 2023

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Questionnaire:

EN | SP | FR

NEW!!! Independent Expert on foreign debt

Call for submissions to prepare the Independent Expert's country visit to the Principality of Liechtenstein

31 Mar 2023

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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on Slavery

 Call for inputs: report on homelessness as a cause and a consequence of contemporary forms of slavery (to be presented at the HRC 54)

31 Mar 2023

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NEW!!! 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!!! 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 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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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 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]).

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

NEW!!! 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

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

Ukraine*

Visit conducted on 30 Apr to 10 May 2019.

End of Mission Statement: English - Ukrainian

Press Release: EnglishRussian - Ukrainian

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

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland*

NEW!!! 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 you can 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

NEW!!! Ukraine

Torture

15 – 28 Feb 2023

Argentina

 Business Enterprises

16 – 28 Feb 2023

Armenia

Mercenaries

20 Feb – 3 Mar 2023

Poland

Violence against Women

27 Feb – 9 Mar 2023

Dominican Republic

Older Persons

28 Feb – 10 Mar 2023

Honduras

Enforced Disappearances

21 – 30 Mar 2023

NEW!!! Serbia

Freedom of expression

28 Mar – 6 Apr 2023

NEW!!! Tajikistan

Freedom of religion

11 – 21 Apr 2023

Luxembourg

Health

17 – 26 Apr 2023

Syrian Arab Republic

  Water and sanitation

17 – 29 Apr 2023

Botswana

Disabilities

24 Apr – 4 May 2023

NEW!!! United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

 Sexual orientation and gender identity

24 Apr – 5 May 2023

NEW!!! Liechtenstein

Foreign debt

1 May  – 31 Aug 2023

Costa Rica

Minority issues

4 – 16 May 2023

Bangladesh

Extreme poverty

17 – 29 May 2023

Costa Rica

Health

18 – 28 July 2023

NEW!!! South Africa

Racism

21 – 30 Ago 2023

Canada

Slavery

23 Aug – 6 Sep 2023

  Ecuador

Extreme poverty

28 Aug – 8 Sep 2023

NEW!!! Australia

Hazardous substances and wastes

28 Aug – 8 Sep

NEW!!! Finland

Education

21 – 30 Nov 2023

 

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