Summary
This issue includes:
Call for inputs: Discrimination against Women and Girls; Environment; Extreme poverty; Freedom of peaceful assembly; Housing; Independence of judges and lawyers; People of African Descent; Torture; Unilateral coercive measures.
Upcoming country visitsmissions carried out by UN Special Procedure mandate holders to assess the situation of human rights in a specific country. During their missions, they will meet with national and local authorities, national human rights institutions, as well as with NGOs, civil society, and survivors of human rights violations. Findings, conclusions and recommendations of such missions are published in reports to the Human Rights Council. More: Algeria; Australia; Bahamas; Brazil; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Ecuador; Finland; Germany; Georgia; Honduras; Japan; Liechtenstein; Malta; Mauritania; Mexico; Mongolia; Montenegro; Peru; Philippines; Republic of Moldova; South Africa; The Netherlands; Tunisia; Ukraine.
Calls for input
| Mandate | Call | Deadline | Additional Info |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly | Call for inputs for the country visit of the Special Rapporteur to Algeria (to be presented at the HRC 56) | 25 Aug 2023 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on people of African descent | Call for contributions for the country visit of the Working Group to Norway | 28 Aug 2023 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers | Call for contributions for the country visit of the Special Rapporteur to Montenegro | 01 Sep 2023 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on housing and the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty | Call for inputs: Decriminalization of homelessness and extreme poverty | 15 Sep 2023 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on discriminationunequal or unfair treatment which can be based on a range of grounds - such as age, ethnic background, disability, and diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions or sex characteristics, amongst others. More against women and girls | Call for inputs from the mandate for the country visit to Mauritania (to be presented at the HRC 56) | 15 Sep 2023 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on discrimination against women and girls | Call for inputs from the mandate on lessons learned, key challenges and impact over the last six years | 18 Sep 2023 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures | Call for inputs: Draft Monitoring & Impact Assessment Tool | 20 Sep 2023 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association |  Call for inputs: report on “Development of practical tools to assist law enforcement bodies in promoting and protecting human rights in the context of peaceful protests” (to be presented at the HRC 55) |
30 Sep 2023 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on environment | Call for inputs: report on “Promoting Environmental Democracy: Procedural elements of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment” (to be presented at the HRC 55) | 02 Oct 2023 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on torture | Call for contributions for the country visit of the Special Rapporteur to Ukraine | 31 Oct 2023 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures | Calls for inputs for the Sanctions Research Platform | 31 Dec 2023 | Read more |
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Country visits by the Independent Expert on SOGI
The UN Independent Expert on SOGIabbreviation standing for sexual orientation and gender identity More, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, undertakes 1 to 3 fact-finding country visits per year.
He visited the United States of America in 2022, Tunisia in 2021, 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), Cambodia (28 March 2020), and Fiji and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (both 24 May 2022).
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 (sp@stg.ilga.org).
| Country | Current Status |
| Argentina* | Visit conducted on 1–10 Mar 2017.
End of Mission Statement: English – Spanish |
| Armenia* | Request to postpone (17 Apr 2018) |
| Burkina Faso | Reminder visit request – for 2021 (17 Jan 2020) |
| Cambodia | Visit conducted on 10–20 Jan 2023.
End of Mission Statement: English Press Release: English |
| Colombia* | Request to postpone (7 Apr 2020) |
| Fiji* | Visit request (24 May 2022) |
| Georgia* | Visit conducted on 25 Sep to 5 Oct 2018.
End of Mission Statement: English – Georgian |
| 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) |
| Mozambique* | Visit conducted on 3-10 Dec 2018.
End of Mission Statement: English – Portuguese Press Release: English – Portuguese |
| Nepal | Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
| Poland* | Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
| Sri Lanka* | Request to postpone to 2020 (2 Oct 2019). |
| Thailand* | Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
| Tunisia* | Visit conducted on 8 -18 Jun 2021
End of Mission Statement: English – Arabic – French |
| Ukraine* | Visit conducted on 30 Apr to 10 May 2019.
End of Mission Statement: English – Ukrainian |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland* | Accepting dates: 24 Apr – 5 May 2023 (6 Feb 2023)
End of Mission Statement: English |
| United States of America* | Visit conducted on 15 – 26 Aug 2022
End of Mission Statement: English Press Release: English |
* Countries with standing invitations. A standing invitation is an open invitation extended by a Government to all thematic special proceduresindependent human rights experts within the UN Human Rights Council with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. They are non-paid and elected for 3-year mandates that can be re-conducted for another three years. Special procedures can undertake country visits, and act on individual cases of reported violations by sending communications to States and others. They also engage in advocacy, raise public awareness, provide advice for technical cooperation, and contribute to the development of international human rights standards.
More. 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 to support the visits, please contact the respective mandate-holders at their e-mail addresses, available here.
| Country | Mandate | Dates |
| POSTPONED!!! Singapore | Terrorism | 12 – 19 Jul 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Bosnia and Herzegovina | Mercenaries | 3 – 11 Oct 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Mozambique | Summary executions |
6 – 21 Nov 2021 |
| POSTPONED!!! Russian Federation | Minority issues | 1 – 18 Apr 2022 |
| Liechtenstein | Foreign debt | 1 May – 31 Aug 2023 |
| POSTPONED!!! Costa Rica | Minority issues |
4 – 16 May 2023 |
| Japan | Business enterprises |
24 Jul – 4 Aug 2023 |
| Brazil | Violence against women | 31 Jul – 10 Aug 2023 |
| South Africa | Hazardous substances and wastes | 31 Jul – 11 Aug 2023 |
| Colombia | Truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence | 14 – 25 Aug 2023 |
| South Africa | Racism |
21 – 30 Aug 2023 |
| Bahamas | Foreign debt | 21 – 31 Aug 2023 |
| Canada | Slavery |
23 Aug – 6 Sep 2023 |
| Ecuador | Extreme poverty |
28 Aug – 8 Sep 2023 |
| Australia | Hazardous substances and wastes | 28 Aug – 8 Sep 2023 |
| Georgia | Disabilities | 4 – 14 Sep 2023 |
| NEW!!! Ukraine | Torture |
4 – 15 Sep 2023 |
| NEW!!! Algeria | Freedom of peaceful assembly |
16 – 26 Sep 2023 |
| NEW!!! Honduras | Climate change | 18 – 28 Sep 2023 |
| Mexico | Arbitrary Detention | 18 – 29 Sep 2023 |
| Montenegro | Independence of judges and lawyers | 19 – 26 Sep 2023 |
| Mauritania | Discrimination against women and girls |
25 Sep – 6 Oct 2023 |
| Peru | Arbitrary executions | 25 Sep – 6 Oct 2023 |
| NEW!!! Canada | Water and sanitation | 2 – 13 Oct 2023 |
| Chile | Torture |
16 – 28 Oct 2023 |
| Honduras | Freedom of expression |
17 – 27 Oct 2023 |
| Australia | Sale of children | 30 Oct – 10 Nov 2023 |
| Mongolia | Independence of judges and lawyers | 6 – 15 Nov 2023 |
| Republic of Moldova | Older persons |
7 – 16 Nov 2023 |
| Algeria | Human rights defenders | 15 Nov – 5 Dec 2023 |
| Finland | Education |
21 – 30 Nov 2023 |
| Bahamas | Arbitrary Detention | 27 Nov – 8 Dec 2023 |
| NEW!!! The Netherlands | Housing | 11 – 21 Dec 2023 |
| Tunisia | Business enterprises |
1 Jan – 31 Mar 2024 |
| NEW!!! Philippines | Freedom of expression |
23 Jan – 2 Feb 2024 |
| NEW!!! Chile | Cultural Rights | 25 Mar – 5 Apr 2024 |
| Canada | Arbitrary Detention | 13 – 24 May 2024 |
| Colombia | Business enterprises |
29 Jul – 9 Aug 2024 |
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