Summary
This issue includes:
Call for inputs: Discrimination against women and girls; disability; foreign debt; hazardous substances and wastes; trafficking; 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; Argentina; Bangladesh; Ecuador; Ethiopia; Germany; Italy; Japan; Liechtenstein; Mexico; Morocco; Nigeria; Paraguay; Peru; Portugal; Serbia; Slovenia.
Joint Submission to SR on Trafficking
The Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons has published a call for inputs on her upcoming visit to Bangladesh (31 October- 9 November 2022). The mandate is seeking information on the measures in place to ensure effective prevention of trafficking and assistance to lesbianadjective/noun to describe a woman whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction is to other women. Women and non-binary people may use this term to describe themselves. More, gayadjective to describe people whose enduring physical, romantic, and/ or emotional
attractions are to people of the same gender. Men, women and non-binary people may use this
term to describe themselves. More, bisexualadjective used to describe a person who has the capacity to form enduring physical, romantic, and/ or emotional attractions to those of the same gender or to those of other genders. More, transadjective/umbrella term to describe a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. More and other genderrefers to a social construct which places cultural and social expectations on individuals based on their assigned sex. More diverse persons, and intersexan umbrella term for the spectrum of variations of sex characteristics that naturally occur within the human species. Intersex people are born with variations of sex characteristics (such as genitals, reproductive organs, hormonal and chromosomal patterns) that are more diverse than stereotypical definitions of male or female bodies. Up to 1.7% of the global population are born with such traits; yet, because their bodies are seen as different, intersex children and adults are often stigmatised and subject to harmful practices – including in medical settings - and discriminated against. More persons (Deadline 23 Sep 2022).
ILGA World is collecting information on this topic to prepare a joint submission to the Special Rapporteur. If you have any data relating to 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 and human trafficking in Bangladesh, please reach out to us at sp@stg.ilga.org
Call for Inputs
| Mandate | Call | Deadline | Additional Info |
| NEW!!! Independent Expert on Foreign Debt | Call for inputs on a proposed non-binding set of guidelines for efficient asset recovery (HRC resolution 46/11, para. 24)
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31 Aug 2022 | 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 | Calls for input on upcoming visit to the Maldives |
08 Sep 2022 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and wastes | Call for inputs on upcoming country visit to Paraguay | 15 Sep 2022 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on trafficking | Call for inputs on upcoming country visit to Bangladesh |
23 Sep 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Independent Expert on Foreign Debt | Call for inputs: Report on international financial obligations, digital systems and human rights (to be presented at the HRC 52) | 30 Sep 2022 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures | Call for contributions: “Toward a universal system of monitoring to assess the human rights impact of unilateral sanctions” | 30 Sep 2022 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities | Call for inputs: Report on innovation in the design and delivery of services that underpin the right to live independently and be included in the community (to be presented at the HRC 52) | 14 Oct 2022 | Read more |
: requests information on LGBTI persons
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 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).
| 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 | Request to postpone (30 May 2022) |
| Colombia* | Request to postpone (7 Apr 2020) |
| Fiji* | NEW!!! 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 Country visit report: E / F / S / A / C / R
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| 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 |
| Ukraine* | Visit conducted on 30 Apr to 10 May 2019.
End of Mission Statement: English – Ukrainian |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland* | NEW!!! Visit request (24 May 2022) |
| United States of America* | Visit conducted on 15 – 26 Aug 2022
NEW!!! 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 you can support the visits, please contact the respective mandate-holders at their e-mail addresses, available here.
| Country | Mandate | Dates |
| 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!!! Russian Federation | Minority issues | 1-18 April 2022 |
| Mexico | Internally displaced persons | 29 Aug – 9 Sep 2022 |
| Nigeria | Older persons |
29 Aug – 9 Sep 2022 |
| NEW!!! Bangladesh | Climate Change | 4-15 Sep 2022 |
| Algeria | Freedom of assembly |
12-22 Sep 2022 |
| Germany | Cultural Rights | 12-22 Sep 2022 |
| Portugal | Environment | 19-27 Sep 2022 |
| NEW!!! Serbia | Freedom of Expression |
19-30 Sep 2022 |
| Japan | Internally displaced persons | 26 Sep-7 Oct 2022 |
| Italy | Internally displaced persons | 26 Sep-7 Oct 2022 |
| Slovenia | Environment | 29 Sep-6 Oct 2022 |
| Paraguay | Toxics and human rights | 3-14 Oct 2022 |
| Bangladesh | Trafficking |
31 Oct-9 Nov 2022 |
| Serbia | Truth | 3-11 Nov 2022 |
| NEW!!! Bangladesh | Older persons |
7 -18 Nov 2022 |
| Ethiopia | Extreme poverty |
7-18 Nov 2022 |
| Argentina | Summary executions |
14-25 Nov 2022 |
| Paraguay | Minority issues | 14-25 Nov 2022 |
| NEW!!! Bangladesh | Leprosy | 28 Nov – 07 Dec 2022 |
| Peru | Water and Sanitation | 28 Nov-9 Dec 2022 |
| POSTPONED!!! Pakistan | Extreme Poverty |
5-16 Dec 2022 |
| NEW!!! Morocco | Extreme poverty |
6-19 Dec 2022 |
| NEW!!! Argentina | Business Enterprises | 20 Feb-2 Mar 2023 |
| Liechtenstein | Foreign debt | 12-19 June 2023 |
| Ecuador | Extreme poverty |
28 Aug – 8 Sep 2023 |
: Mandate frequently considers LGBTI issues