INFO NOTE ON UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES – SEPTEMBER 2021
This is the 46th 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: Development; Environment; Hazardous substances and waste; Racism; Summary executions; Torture; Water and Sanitation
Upcoming country visits: Cyprus, Ethiopia, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mauritania, Mexico, Montenegro, Mozambique, Nepal, Pakistan, Paraguay, Serbia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, United States of America, Zimbabwe
Call for inputs
| Mandate | Call | Deadline | Additional Info |
| NEW!!! The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions |  Call for comments: Country visit focusing on good practices as well as challenges in relation to the realisation of the right to life in Mozambique |
15 Sep 2021 |
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| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on torture
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Call for inputs: Comprehensive follow-up report on combating intolerance, negative stereotyping, stigmatization, discrimination, and violence based on religion or belief | 23 Sep 2021 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and wastes | Call for inputs: To inform the Special Rapporteur’s visit to Italy that will take place from 30 Nov until 13 Dec 2021 (to be presented at the HRC during its 51st session in September 2022) | 30 Sep 2021 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on discrimination against women and girls
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Call for inputs: Report on the topic of girls’ and young women’s activism, accomplishments, challenges and opportunities for change (to be presented at the 50th session of the HRC in Jun 2022) |
1 Oct 2021 | Read more
Questionnaire |
| Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment | Call for inputs: Report on Toxic-free places to live, work, study and play (to be presented at the UN HRC in March 2022) | 1 Nov 2021 | Read more
Questionnaire |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
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Call for inputs: To receive an overview on laws and regulations at national, federal state or local level that may still prohibit or sanction begging, staying, sleeping, easting or undertaking any other life sustaining activities in public spaces. |
30 Nov 2021
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| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
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Call for inputs: To receive an overview on laws and regulations at national, federal state or local level that may still prohibit or sanction begging, staying, sleeping, easting or undertaking any other life sustaining activities in public spaces. | 30 Nov 2021
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: 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 Apr 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) |
| Tunisia* | Visit conducted on 8 -18 Jun 2021 End of Mission Statement: English – Arabic – French Press Release: English – Arabic – French |
| 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!!! Mexico | Internally displaced persons | 15 – 27 Mar 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Paraguay | Minority Issues | 24 May – 4 Jun 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Cyprus | Disappearances | 21 – 30 Jun 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Mauritania | Slavery | 22 Jun – 1 Jul 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Singapore | Terrorism | 12-19 Jul 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Sri Lanka | Slavery | 23 Aug – 1 Sep 2021 |
| Nepal | Extreme poverty |
6-17 Sep 2021 |
| NEW!!! Lebanon | Extreme poverty |
6-17 Sep 2021 TBC |
| Montenegro | Sale of children | 8-16 Sep 2021 |
| Serbia | Freedom of expression |
15 – 24 Sep 2021 |
| Italy | Business enterprises | 27 Sep – 6 Oct 2021 |
| NEW!!! Zimbabwe | Unilateral coercive measures | 18-28 Oct 2021 |
| NEW!!! Finland | Older persons | 26 Oct-4 Nov 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Mozambique | Summary Executions |
6 Nov- 21 Nov 2021 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Extreme poverty |
1-12 Nov 2021 |
| NEW!!! United States of America | Minority Issues | 8-19 Nov 2021 |
| NEW!!! Hungary | Freedom of expression |
14- 22 Nov 2021 |
| Italy | Toxics and human rights | 30 Nov – 13 Dec 2021 |
| Ethiopia | Extreme poverty |
7-18 Nov 2022 |
| Pakistan | Extreme poverty |
5-16 Dec 2022 |
: Mandate frequently considers LGBTI issues