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INFO NOTE ON UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES: CALL FOR INPUTS AND UPCOMING COUNTRY VISITS – MAY 2018

This is the 7th 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: business and human rights; right to housing; torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; independence of judges and lawyers; contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences; minority issues.

Upcoming country visits: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Ireland, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mali, Moldova, Poland, Republic of Korea, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

 

Call for inputs

 

  • NEW! Working Group on Business and Human Rights – Call for submission for a meeting and consultation with civil society (Geneva, 16-17 May 2018) Read more

  • NEW! Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing – Call for submission for the 2018 report to General Assembly on “informal settlements and the right to housing” – Deadline 15 May 2018 Read more

  • Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment – Questionnaire, for the upcoming thematic report of Special Rapporteur on Torture – Deadline 15 May 2018 Read more

  • Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers – report on Bar Associations – Deadline 16 May 2018 Read more

  • Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences – Thematic report on domestic servitude of migrant women and girls – Deadline 18 May 2018 Read more

  • Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of the joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with regard to human rights – Report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of the UNGASS joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with regard to human rights – Deadline 18 May 2018 Read more

  • Special Rapporteur on minority issues – Statelessness: A Minorities Issue – Deadline 24 May 2018 Read more

  • Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences – Thematic report on the gender dimensions of contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences – Deadline 01 June 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.

Honduras  Human rights defenders  29 April – 12 May 2018
United Kingdom Racism 30 April – 11 May 2018
Guatemala Indigenous people 1-10 May 2018
Ireland Sale of children 14-21 May 2018
France Terrorism 14-23 May 2018
Ukraine Foreign debt 14-23 May 2018
 Republic of Korea Housing 14-23 May 2018
 Mali Migrants 21-29 May 2018
 Kyrgyzstan  Health  22-31 May 2018
 Belgium Terrorism 24-31 May 2018
 Ukraine  Torture   28 May – 8 June 2018
NEW! Ukraine Enforced disappearances 11-20 June 2018
NEW! Austria Use of mercenaries 21-29 June 2018
NEW! Moldova  Human rights defenders  26 June – 02 July 2018
NEW! Kenya Business 02-11 July 2018
NEW! Guatemala Independence of judges 20-28 August 2018
Malaysia Sale of children 24 September-1 October 2018
Egypt Adequate housing 24 September-3 October 2018
Poland  Cultural rights  24 September – 5 October 2018
 Argentina  Freedom of expression  5-15 October 2018
 Canada  Health  29 October – 9 November 2018
NEW! United Kingdom   Extreme poverty  06-16 November 2018
 Malaysia   Extreme poverty  12-22 August 2019