INFO NOTE ON UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES – JUNE 2019
This is the 20th 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: Development; Disability; Environment; Foreign debt; Freedom of assembly and association; Racism; Sexual orientation and gender identity; Terrorism
Upcoming country visits: Brazil; Ecuador; Gambia; Greece; Honduras; Hungary; Kyrgyzstan; Malaysia; Mongolia; Nigeria; Norway; Qatar; South Africa; Spain; Sri Lanka; Switzerland
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Civil societies organisations worldwide are urging the Human Rights Council to renew the mandate of the Independent Expert on violence and discrimination on the basis of SOGI during its 41st session. Click here to sign the statement before 26 June 2019, and join the #RenewIESOGI campaign!
Calls for input
| Mandate | Call | Deadline | Additional Info |
| NEW!
|
 Public consultation in Geneva, Switzerland: Marginalisation and exclusion of LGBT people from socio-cultural and economic environments |
25 Jun 2019 | Read more: |
| Special Rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association | Call for inputs: Country visit to Sri Lanka (15-26 Jul 2019) |
25 Jun 2019 | Read more |
| NEW! Special Rapporteur on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance | Call for submissions: Reparations, racial justice, and equality (thematic report to the 74th GA) | 30 Jun 2019 | Read more: |
| NEW! Special Rapporteur on countering terrorism | Call for submissions: “Soft law” and informal lawmaking in the global counter-terrorism architecture (thematic report to the 74th GA in Sep 2019) | 30 Jun 2019 | Read more |
| NEW! Special Rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association | Call for inputs: The impact of restrictions to the rights to freedom of assembly and association on development (thematic report to the 74th GA in Sep 2019) | 2 Jul 2019 | Read more |
| Independent Expert on foreign debt | Call for contributions: Private debt and human rights (thematic report to the 43rd HRC in Mar 2019) |
31 Jul 2019 | Read more: |
| Special Rapporteur on the environment | Call for input: Country visit to Norway (12-23 Sep 2019) | 31 Jul 2019 | Read more |
| NEW! Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities | Call for submissions: Good practices on effective access to justice for persons with disabilities | 15 Aug 2019 | Read more
Questionnaire: |
| NEW! Special Rapporteur on the right to development | Call for submissions: Country visit to Switzerland (23 Sep-2 Oct 2019) | 31 Aug 2019 | 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.
In 2019, he is visiting Ukraine and Sri Lanka.
In 2018, he visited Georgia and Mozambique.
In 2017, his predecessor Prof. Vitit Muntarbhorn visited Argentina.
In March 2018, Victor Madrigal-Borloz made 12 country visit requests, and in this section you may find information about current status of the requests. Additionally, on 4 July 2018 Malta invited the Independent Expert to visit their country.
If you wish to engage with ILGA with regard to the Independent Expert’s visit to your country, please contact us ([email protected]).
| Country | Current Status |
| Argentina* | Visit conducted on 1-10 Mar 2017.
End of Mission Statement: English – Spanish |
| Armenia* | Request to postpone (17 April 2018) |
| Burkina Faso | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Cambodia | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Georgia* | Visit conducted on 25 Sep to 5 Oct 2018.
End of Mission Statement: English – Georgian |
| Ghana* | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Kenya* | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Malta* | Invitation Country Visit (4 Jul 2018) |
| Nepal | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Mozambique* | Visit conducted on 3-10 Dec 2018.
End of Mission Statement: English – Portuguese Press Release: English – Portuguese |
| Poland* | Request to postpone (15 May 2018) |
| Sri Lanka* | NEW! Visit postponed to 28 Oct to 8 Nov 2019. |
| Thailand* | Visit request (26 Mar 2018) |
| Ukraine* | Visit conducted on 30 Apr to 10 May 2019.
End of Mission Statement: 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-holder at their email, found in the OHCHR directory.
| Country | Mandate | Dates |
| NEW! Kyrgyzstan | Disappearances | 25-30 Jun 2019 |
| Hungary | Migrants | 10-17 Jul 2019 |
| Sri Lanka | Freedom of assembly and association |
15-26 Jul 2019 |
| Malaysia | Extreme poverty |
12-22 Aug 2019 |
| Sri Lanka | Freedom of religion |
15-24 Aug 2019 |
| Honduras | Independence of judges and lawyers | 16-22 Aug 2019 |
| NEW! Honduras | Business | 19-28 Aug 2019 |
| Mongolia | Foreign debt | 2-11 Sep 2019 |
| Norway | Environment | 12-23 Sep 2019 |
| South Africa | Albinism | 16-26 Sep 2019 |
| NEW! Ecuador | Health |
17-26 Sep 2019 |
| Nigeria | Housing |
17-26 Sep 2019 |
| Switzerland | Development | 23 Sep – 2 Oct 2019 |
| Norway | Disability | 2-11 Oct 2019 |
| Gambia | Sale and sexual exploitation of children |
21-29 Oct 2019 |
| Qatar | Arbitrary detention | 3-14 Nov 2019 |
| Qatar | Racism |
24 Nov – 1 Dec 2019 |
| NEW! Brazil | Toxic waste | 2-13 Dec 2019 |
| Greece | Arbitrary detention | 2-13 Dec 2019 |
| Qatar | Education | 8-16 Dec 2019 |
| Qatar | Slavery | 13-20 Jan 2020 |
| Spain | Extreme poverty |
27 Jan – 7 Feb 2020 |
= Mandate frequently considers LGBTI issues.