INFO NOTE ON UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES – MAY 2021
This is the 42nd monthly info note by ILGA World on UN Special Procedures and sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC).
This issue includes:
Call for inputs: Sexual orientation and gender identity; Environment; Truth; Leprosy; Sale of children; Housing; Foreign debt; Torture; Peaceful assembly and association; Minority issues
Upcoming country visits: Botswana, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Finland, Italy, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Mexico, Nepal, Paraguay, Serbia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tunisia
Call for inputs
| Mandate | Call | Deadline | Additional Info |
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NEW!!! Independent expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity |
 Call for inputs: country visit to Tunisia (visit to be conducted in Jun 2021 TBC) |
30 Apr 2021 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
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Call for imputs: report on transitional justice measures and the legacy of human rights violations in colonial contexts (to be presented to the General Assembly, Oct 2021) | 7 May 2021 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members | Call for inputs: report focusing on national laws, regulations, resolutions, and policies that have discriminatory impacts on persons affected by leprosy and measures as well as challenges to abolish/amend them (to be presented to the General Assembly in 2021) | 10 May 2021 | Questionnaire EN | ES | FR |
| Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children | Call for inputs: report on Gender dimension of the sale and sexual exploitation of children and the importance of integrating a human rights-based and a non-binary approach to combating and eradicating sale and sexual exploitation of children (to be presented to the 76th session of the General Assembly, Oct 2021) |
10 May 2021 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing | Call for inputs: report on housing discrimination and spatial segregation (to be presented to the General Assembly in 2021 and the HRC in 2022) |
14 May 2021 | |
| NEW!!! Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights | Call for inputs: report on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights (to be presented to the General Assembly during its 76th session, Oct 2021) | 15 May 2021 | Read more EN | ES | FR |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on Torture | Call for inputs: report to inform on the topic of accountability for torture and ill-treatment (to be presented to the General Assembly at its 76th Session, Oct 2021 | 15 May 2021 |
Questionnaire
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| Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association | Call for inputs: report on the enjoyment of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association to advance climate justice (to be presented to the General Assembly at its 76th session) | 30 May 2021 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on minority issues |
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9 Jun 2021 | Read more AR | EN | PR |
: 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 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), and Cambodia (28 March 2020).
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: English – Spanish Press Release: English – Spanish 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 | Proposed dates September 2021 (14 Dec 2020) |
| Colombia* | Request to postpone (7 April 2020) |
| Georgia* | Visit conducted on 25 Sep to 5 Oct 2018. End of Mission Statement: English – Georgian Press Release: English – Georgian 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) |
| Nepal | Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
| Mozambique* | Visit conducted on 3-10 Dec 2018. End of Mission Statement: English – Portuguese Press Release: English – Portuguese Country visit report: E / F / S / A / C / R |
| 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) |
| NEW!!! Tunisia* | Request to postpone from 8 to 18 June 2021 (21 Apr 2021) Call for inputs | Background note |
| Ukraine* | Visit conducted on 30 Apr to 10 May 2019. End of Mission Statement: English – Ukrainian Press Release: English – Russian – Ukrainian Country visit report: E / F / S / A / C / R |
* 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! Tunisia | Sexual orientation and gender identity |
8-18 Jun 2021 TBC |
| POSTPONED!!! Mexico | Internally displaced persons | 15 – 27 Mar 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Finland | Older persons | 20-29 Apr 2021 TBC |
| NEW!!! Kenya | Sale of Children | 17-21 May 2021 |
| Paraguay | Minority Issues | 24 May – 4 Jun 2021 |
| NEW!!! Cyprus | Disappearances | 21 – 30 Jun 2021 |
| Mauritania | Slavery | 22 Jun – 1 Jul 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Singapore | Terrorism | 12-19 Jul 2021 |
| Botswana | Disability | 20-29 Jul 2021 |
| Sri Lanka | Slavery | 23 Aug – 1 Sep 2021 |
| Nepal | Extreme poverty |
6-17 Sep 2021 |
| NEW!!! Italy | Business enterprises | 27 Sep – 6 Oct 2021 |
| NEW!!! Serbia | Freedom of Expression |
1 – 30 Sep 2021 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Extreme poverty |
1-12 Nov 2021 |
| NEW!!! Ethiopia | Extreme poverty |
7-18 Nov 2022 |