In this page you will find submissions prepared by ILGA World and key partners over the years to inform thematic reports prepared by Special Procedures mandate holders.

2023

Submissions to the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• The impact of colonial legacies in the lives of LGBTI+ and other ancestral sexual and gender-diverse persons

Submissions to the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in persons, especially women and children

• “Yo no quiero esto para mi vida”: Trata de personas lesbianas, gays, bisexuales, trans y de género diverso en Colombia
• Trata de personas lesbianas, gays, bisexuales y trans en Colombia

Submissions to the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons

• Desplazamiento interno y construcción de paz con las personas LGBTIQ+ en Colombia

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression

• Gendered disinformation in the context of LGBTI communities

2022

Submissions to the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• input to a thematic report: LGBTI and gender non-conforming people’s right to health and the realisation of SDG 3: global needs, gaps and trends
• input to a thematic report: peace, security, sexual orientation and gender identity in Afghanistan (joint submission with Outright Action International)
• input to a thematic report: peace, security, sexual orientation and gender identity in Afghanistan (joint submission with ILGA Asia)
• input to a thematic report: human rights of LGBT persons and the armed conflict in Colombia
• input to a thematic report: freedom of religion and belief and SOGI rights
• inputs on the country visit to the United States 

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association 

• follow-up on the official visits to Armenia, Sri Lanka, and Tunisia

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health

• Violence and its impact on LGBTI people’s right to physical and mental health

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against women, its causes and consequences

• violence and its impact on indigenous women and girls of diverse and ancestral SOGIESC

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in persons, especially women and children

• inputs on the country visit to Bangladesh

Submission to the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls

• thematic report on poverty and inequality

2021

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences

• Femicides against LBTI women

Submissions to the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons

• The human rights of lesbian, bisexual, trans and intersex (LBTI) older women
• Intersections of ageism and age discrimination with cisheteronormativity, homophobia and transphobia, and discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression

Submission to the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• Input to a thematic report: Gender, sexual orientation and gender identity

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples 

• COVID-19 recovery: LGBTQI2S+ indigenous peoples

2020

Submission to the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• The impact of COVID-19 on the human rights of LGBT persons, communities and/or populations

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence

• The multi-layered aspects of a gender perspective in transitional justice processes: LGBTI+ persons

Submissions to the Special Rapporteur on violence against women

• COVID-19 and the increase of domestic and gender-based violence against lesbian and bisexual women and non-binary, trans and intersex persons
• Rape and other forms of sexual violence against lesbian and bisexual women and non-binary, trans and intersex persons

2019

Submission to the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity

• On marginalisation and exclusion from socio-cultural environments

Submission to the Special Rapporteur on violence against women

• Mistreatment and violence against lesbian and bisexual women and trans persons during reproductive health care with a focus on childbirth
  
  

2018

Joint submission to the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy

• Gender perspectives on privacy in the digital era: A joint submission on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and sex characteristics

Joint submission to the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice 

• Deprivation of liberty: experiences of lesbian and bisexual women and trans and intersex persons

2017

Joint submission to the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights

• The impact of fundamentalism and extremism on the cultural rights of LBTI individuals