Summary
This issue includes:
Call for inputs: African Descent; Disabilities; Extreme poverty; Food; Hazardous substances and waste; Indigenous peoples; Migrants; Mercenaries; Older persons; Sale of children; Sexual orientation and gender identity; Trafficking; Truth; Violence against women
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; Argentina; Brazil; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Ethiopia; Greece; Kyrgyzstan; Maldives; Mauritania; Moldova; Netherlands; Pakistan; Paraguay; Peru; Poland; Russian Federation; Tunisia; United States of America
IE on SOGI new call for inputs, country visit to USA
The 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 has published a call for inputs for his upcoming visit to the United States of America (Deadline 15 April 2022)
If you have any data on the human rights situation of 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 communities in USA; particularly focusing on cases of 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 based on SOGIabbreviation standing for sexual orientation and gender identity More – please send your inputs to ohchr-ie-sogi@un.org
You can send your information to contribute to ILGA World’s submission to the following email: sp@stg.ilga.org before the 13th of April.
For more information read here.
Call for inputs
| Mandate | Call | Deadline | Additional Info |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the right to food | Call for inputs: Report on impact of the COVID-19 on the right to food | 8 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children | Call for inputs: Addressing the vulnerabilities of children to sale and sexual exploitation in the framework of the SDGs (to be presented at the GA77) | 8 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Call for inputs: report on “Indigenous Women and the Development, Application, Preservation and Transmission of Scientific Knowledge” (to be presented at the HRC51) | 13 April 2022 | Read more
Questionnaire |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples | Call for inputs: Report on “Protected Areas and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: the Obligations of States and International Organizations” (to be presented at the GA77) | 13 April 2022 | Read more
Questionnaire |
| Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants | Call for inputs: Report on the impact of climate change and the protection of the human rights of migrants (to be presented at the GA77) | 14 April 2022 | Read more
Questionnaire |
| NEW!!! Independent Expert on 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 | Call for inputs on upcoming country visit to the United States of America |
15 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on the use of mercenaries | Call for inputs: Report on maritime security (to be presented at the GA77) | 15 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights | Call for submissions: Thematic report on “The Job Guarantee” (to be presented at the GA77) | 15 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on violence against women | Call for inputs on upcoming visit to Brazil |
24 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and waste | Call for inputs: Report on the impact of toxics on Indigenous peoples (to be presented at the GA77) | 25 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence | Call for inputs: Report on achieving the SDGs through people and victim centred transitional justice measures in post authoritarian and post conflict settings (to be presented at the GA77) | 25 April 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on trafficking | Call for Inputs: Report on trafficking of persons in the context of climate change (to be presented at the GA77) |
12 May 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities | Call for inputs: Report on armed conflict and disability – the conduct of hostilities, military operations and peacekeeping operations (to be presented at the GA77) | 15 May 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on people of African descent | Call for inputs: Report on the human rights situation of Children of African Descent | 16 May 2022 | Read more |
: 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 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 the United States of America (26 July 2021).
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).
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Country |
Current Status |
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Argentina* |
Visit conducted on 1-10 Mar 2017. End of Mission Statement: English – Spanish |
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Armenia* |
Request to postpone (17 Apr 2018) |
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Burkina Faso |
Reminder visit request – for 2021 (17 Jan 2020) |
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Cambodia |
Proposed dates September 2021 (14 Dec 2020) |
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Colombia* |
Request to postpone (7 Apr 2020) |
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Georgia* |
Visit conducted on 25 Sep to 5 Oct 2018. End of Mission Statement: English – Georgian |
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Ghana* |
Reminder visit request – for 2021 (7 Jan 2020) |
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India* |
Visit request (7 Jan 2020) |
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Japan* |
Visit request for second half of 2020 (8 Oct 2019) |
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Kenya* |
Reminder visit request – for 2021 (7 Jan 2020) |
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Malta* |
Invitation Country Visit (4 Jul 2018) |
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Nepal |
Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
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Mozambique* |
Visit conducted on 3-10 Dec 2018. End of Mission Statement: English – Portuguese Press Release: English – Portuguese |
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Poland* |
Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
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Sri Lanka* |
Request to postpone to 2020 (2 Oct 2019). |
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Thailand* |
Reminder visit request – for 2020 (7 Jan 2020) |
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Tunisia* |
Visit conducted on 8 -18 Jun 2021 |
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Ukraine* |
Visit conducted on 30 Apr to 10 May 2019. End of Mission Statement: English – Ukrainian |
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United States of America* |
Acceptance of visit request – 15- 26 Aug 2022 (25 Jan 2022)
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* 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 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!!! Cyprus | Disappearances | 21-30 Jun 2021 |
| 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!!! Serbia | Freedom of expression |
15-24 Nov 2021 |
| Russian Federation | Minority issues | 1 -18 Apr 2022 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Discrimination against women |
4-15 Apr 2022 |
| Mauritania | Slavery | 4 – 13 May 2022 |
| POSTPONED!!! Maldives | Terrorism | 15-24 May 2022 |
| Pakistan | Foreign debt | 16-25 May 2022 |
| Brazil | Violence against women |
23 May – 1 Jun 2022 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Extreme poverty |
23 May – 3 Jun 2022 |
| NEW!!! Greece | Human rights defenders |
13-22 Jun 2022 |
| Argentina | Foreign debt | 1-10 Aug 2022 |
| Maldives | Discrimination against women |
1-12 Aug 2022 |
| Algeria | Freedom of assembly |
12-22 Sep 2022 |
| Ethiopia | Extreme poverty |
7-18 Nov 2022 |
| Argentina | Summary executions |
14-25 Nov 2022 |
| NEW!!! Paraguay | Minority issues | 14-25 Nov 2021 |
| Peru | Water and Sanitation | 28 Nov-9 Dec 2022 |
| Pakistan | Extreme poverty |
5-16 Dec 2022 |
| Ecuador | Extreme poverty |
28 Aug – 3 Dec 2023 |
: Mandate frequently considers LGBTI issues