This is the 67th 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; Business enterprises; Development; Discrimination against women and girls; Enforced disappearances; Environment; Extreme poverty; Freedom of religion or belief; Internally displaced persons; Racism; SOGI; Toxics; Unilateral coercive measures; Violence against women.
Upcoming country visits: Algeria; Australia; Bahamas; Brazil; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Finland; Georgia; Honduras; Japan; Liechtenstein; Malta; Mauritius; Mauritania; Montenegro; Republic of Moldova; South Africa; Tunisia.
Calls for input
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Mandate |
Call |
Deadline |
Additional Info |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief |
Call for input: report on “Promotion of the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, or belief at the national and local level” (to be presented at the GA 78) |
02 Jun 2023 |
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NEW!!! Independent Expert on SOGI |
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05 Jun 2023 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on development |
Call for inputs: to collect information on 2023 reports and possible priorities for the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to development in the next 3 years |
09 Jun 2023 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on internally displaced persons |
Call for input: report on thematic priorities of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (to be presented at the GA 78) |
12 Jun 2023 |
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Special Rapporteur on Environment |
Call for inputs: report on “Should the interests of foreign investors trump the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment?” (to be presented at the GA 78) |
15 Jun 2023 |
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women |
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16 Jun 2023 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on toxics |
Call for inputs for the country visit of the Special Rapporteur to South Africa |
20 Jun 2023 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on racism |
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23 Jun 2023 |
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Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty |
Call for inputs for the country visit of the Special Rapporteur to Ecuador |
01 Jul 2023 |
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NEW!!! Working Group on enforced disappearances |
Call for inputs with a view to issuing a joint statement on the notion of short-term enforced disappearance |
31 Jul 2023 |
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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 HRC 55) |
02 Oct 2023 |
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Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures |
Calls for inputs for the Sanctions Research Platform |
31 Dec 2023 |
: 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 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]).
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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 |
Visit conducted on 10–20 Jan 2023. End of Mission Statement: English Press Release: English |
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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 End of Mission Statement: English – Arabic – French |
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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* |
Accepting dates: 24 Apr – 5 May 2023 (6 Feb 2023) NEW!!! End of Mission Statement: English |
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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 to 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!!! 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 Apr 2022 |
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Liechtenstein |
Foreign debt |
1 May – 31 Aug 2023 |
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POSTPONED!!! Costa Rica |
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4 – 16 May 2023 |
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Honduras |
Summary executions |
22 May – 2 Jun 2023 |
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Mauritius |
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30 May – 8 Jun 2023 |
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NEW!!! Liechtenstein |
Cultural rights |
19 – 26 Jun 2023 |
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Malta |
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26 Jun – 7 Jul 2023 |
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Costa Rica |
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18 – 28 Jul 2023 |
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Japan |
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24 Jul – 4 Aug 2023 |
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Brazil |
Violence against women |
31 Jul – 10 Aug 2023 |
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NEW!!! South Africa |
Hazardous substances and wastes |
31 Jul – 11 Aug 2023 |
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South Africa |
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21 – 30 Aug 2023 |
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NEW!!! Colombia |
Truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence |
14 – 25 Aug 2023 |
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Canada |
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23 Aug – 6 Sep 2023 |
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Ecuador |
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28 Aug – 8 Sep 2023 |
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Australia |
Hazardous substances and wastes |
28 Aug – 8 Sep 2023 |
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NEW!!! Georgia |
Disabilities |
4 – 14 Sep 2023 |
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NEW!!! Montenegro |
Independence of judges and lawyers |
19 – 26 Sep 2023 |
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Mauritania |
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25 Sep – 6 Oct 2023 |
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NEW!!! Chile |
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16 – 28 Oct 2023 |
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NEW!!! Australia |
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30 Oct – 10 Nov 2023 |
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Republic of Moldova |
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7 – 16 Nov 2023 |
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NEW!!! Algeria |
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15 Nov – 5 Dec 2023 |
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Finland |
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21 – 30 Nov 2023 |
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Bahamas |
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27 Nov – 8 Dec 2023 |
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NEW!!! Tunisia |
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1 Jan 2024 – 31 Mar 2024 |
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