Summary
More: call for inputs and 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. …Read more Read less
This issue includes:
Calls for input: African descent; Business; Executions; Extreme poverty; International solidarity; Foreign debt; Freedom of peaceful assembly; Internally displaced persons; Minority issues; Racism; Sexual orientationrefers to a person’s capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to - and intimate and sexual relations with - individuals of a different gender or the same gender or more than one gender. More and gender identityrefers to a person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. More; Slavery; Torture; Unilateral coercive measures; Violence against women; Water and sanitation.
Upcoming country visits: Angola; Australia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Brazil; Burkina Faso; Canada; Chile; China; Colombia; Denmark; Dominican Republic; Guinea-Bissau; Jordan; Kuwait; Lesotho; Lithuania; Maldives; Mongolia; Peru; Republic of Korea; Sweden; Ukraine; United States of America.
Calls for input
| Mandate | Call | Deadline | Additional Info |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on internally displaced persons | 🌈 Call for contributions for report on climate change and internal displacement (to be presented at HRC 56) 🌈 | 01 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on water and sanitation | Call for contributions for report on “Nexus water-economy: water management for services and productive uses from a human rights approach” (to be presented at HRC 57) | 01 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism | Call for contributions for report on combating glorification of Nazism (to be presented at HRC 56) | 05 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on violence against women | 🌈 Call for contributions for report on violence against women and girls in sport (to be presented at GA 79) 🌈 | 08 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on slavery | 🌈 Call for contributions for report on contemporary forms of slavery as affecting currently and formerly incarcerated people (to be presented at HRC 57) 🌈 | 12 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on Business and Human Rights | Call for contributions for the working group’s visit to Colombia (to be presented at HRC 59) | 15 Apr 2024
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| Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina | 15 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt | Call for input for report on “The fiscal social contract and the human rights economy” (to be presented at GA 79) | 20 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent | Call for contributions for the working group’s visit to Colombia (to be presented at HRC 57)
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22 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on torture | Call for contributions for report on the identification, documentation, investigation and prosecution of crimes of sexual torture during war and armed conflicts, and rehabilitation of victims and survivors. (to be presented at GA 79) | 24 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identityabbreviated form to refer to the IESOGI – a UN Special Procedures mandate specifically dedicated to addressing violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. More | 🌈 Call for contributions for the mandate’s report on electoral participation and sexual orientation and genderrefers to a social construct which places cultural and social expectations on individuals based on their assigned sex. More identity (to be presented at GA 79) 🌈 | 25 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Ukraine (to be presented at HRC 59) | 26 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| Independent Expert on international solidarity | 🌈 Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Denmark (and Greenland) (to be presented at HRC 59) 🌈 | 30 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to China (to be presented at HRC 57) | 30 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures | Call for input on the “Guiding Principles on Sanctions, Compliance (over-compliance) and human rights” | 30 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
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🌈 Call for contributions for the mandate’s report on the killing of LGBTIQ+ persons (to be presented at GA 79) 🌈
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10 May 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on minority issues | Call for contributions for report on institutional arrangements of States that enable minority rights to flourish (to be presented at GA 79) | 10 May 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Colombia (to be presented at HRC 59) | 14 June 2024 | Read more |
: requests information on LGBTIacronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people. Although this is not the acronym available to describe people of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics, it is the most commonly used in United Nations spaces and advocacy. More persons
Country visits by the Independent Expert on SOGI
The President of the UN Human Rights Councilan inter-governmental body within the United Nations which has the responsibility to promote and protect human rights. It is comprised of 47 member States, each elected to 3-year terms by the 193 member States of the United Nations. More has appointed Graeme Reid as the incoming holder of the mandate of the Independent Expert on violence and 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 on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGIabbreviation standing for sexual orientation and gender identity More). He took on the role on 1st of November, 2023. For more information, have a look at our article at this link.
The UN Independent Expert on SOGI undertakes 1 to 3 fact-finding country visits per year.
The former Independent Expert, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, visited Cambodia in 2023, 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, the former Independent Expert 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 the 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 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 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 |
| POSTPONED!!! Costa Rica | Minority issues | 4 – 16 May 2023 |
| Peru | Health |
TBC 2023/2024 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | Mercenaries | 4 – 13 Mar 2024 |
| Colombia | Indigenous Peoples | 5 – 15 Mar 2024 |
| NEW!!! Finland | Truth, Justice and Reparation | 11 – 15 Mar 2024 |
| Peru | Older Persons |
11 – 22 Mar 2024 |
| NEW!!! Maldives | International Order | 12 – 21 Mar 2024 |
| NEW!!! Sweden | Truth, Justice and Reparation | 18 – 22 Mar 2024 |
| Chile | Cultural Rights |
25 Mar – 5 Apr 2024 |
| NEW!!! Brazil | Human rights defenders | TBC Apr 2024 |
| Denmark | International Solidarity | 8 – 19 Apr 2024 |
| Canada | Water and sanitation | 8 – 19 Apr 2024 |
| NEW!!! Bosnia and Herzegovina | Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association | 15 – 22 Apr 2024 |
| NEW!!! Maldives | Environment | 16 – 25 Apr 2024 |
| United States of America | Education | 29 Apr – 10 May 2024 |
| Canada | Arbitrary Detention | 13 – 24 May 2024 |
| Jordan | Cultural Rights |
20 – 31 May 2024 |
| Burkina Faso | Trafficking |
10 Jul – 19 Jul 2024 |
| NEW!!! Dominican Republic | Discrimination against women and girls |
22 – 31 Jul 2024 |
| Chile | Independence of judges and lawyers | 29 Jul – 9 Aug 2024 |
| Colombia | Business enterprises |
29 Jul – 9 Aug 2024 |
| NEW!!! Brazil | Racism | 5 – 16 Aug 2024 |
| NEW!!! Republic of Korea | Independence of judges and lawyers | 4 – 14 Nov 2024 |
| NEW!!! Lithuania | Disappearanaces | 20 –27 Nov 2024 |
| Chile | Health |
21 Nov – 4 Dec 2024 |
: Mandate frequently considers LGBTI issues