This is the 8th monthly info note by ILGA on UN Special Procedures and sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC).

This issue includes:

Call for inputs: contemporary forms of racism; privacy; development.

Upcoming country visits: Argentina, Austria, Canada, Cape Verde, Egypt, Guatemala, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Moldova, Morocco, Poland, Republic of Korea, Ukraine, Uruguay, United Kingdom.

Download the June 2018 info note on Special Procedures
as a PDF file

Call for inputs

^NEW! Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance – Call for submissions: Combatting glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination – Deadline 29 June 2018. Read more

^NEW! Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance – Call for submissions: Thematic report on the impact of nationalist populism on racial equality – Deadline 29 June 2018. Read more

^NEW! Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy – Call for contributions: Gender Perspectives on Privacy – Deadline 30 September 2018. Read more

^NEW! Special Rapporteur on the right to development – Initiating discussions on human rights compliant development policies (for Europe – in June 2018, in Geneva, Switzerland; for the Americas – in October 2018, in Panama, Panama and for Asia – in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 2018). Read more

Upcoming country visits

This information is regularly updated by the OHCHR here. To find out how you can support the visits, please contact the respective mandate-holder at their email, found in the OHCHR directory.