Summary
This issue includes:
Calls for input: Cambodia; Development; Disappearances; Environment; Foreign debt; Housing; Human rights defenders; Indigenous Peoples; International Order; International Solidarity; Mercenaries; Migrants; Peaceful assembly; Racism; Slavery; Toxics; Truth, justice and reparation; Unilateral coercive measures; Violence against women; Water and sanitation.
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: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Brazil; Burkina Faso; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Côte d’Ivoire; Denmark; Dominican Republic; Finland; Jordan; Lithuania; Maldives; Peru; Republic of Korea; Sweden; Tunisia; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; United States of America; Venezuela
Calls for input
| Mandate | Call | Deadline | Additional Info |
| NEW!!! Independent Expert on international order | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to the Maldives | 08 Mar 2024
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| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Brazil (to be presented at HRC 58) | 11 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on truth, justice and reparation | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Finland | 11 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on truth, justice and reparation | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Sweden | 11 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances | Call for contributions for the follow-up reports on country visits to Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan (to be presented at HRC 57) | 15 Mar 2024
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| Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples |  Call for contributions for report on “The Situation of Mobile Indigenous Peoples” (to be presented at GA 79) |
15 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| Independent Expert on international solidarity
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Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Denmark (and Greenland) (to be presented at HRC 59) |
15 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| Working Group on mercenaries | Call for contributions for report on arms transfer and mercenarism (to be presented at HRC 57 and GA 79) | 15 Mar 2024
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| Working Group on mercenaries | Call for contributions for report on financing and mercenarism (to be presented at HRC 57 and GA 79) | 15 Mar 2024
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| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on water and sanitation | Call for input for report on “Water and food nexus: a human rights approach to water management in food systems” (to be presented at GA 79) | 15 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on water and sanitation | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Canada | 15 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights | Call for input for report on Pollution Information Portals and the right to know (to be presented at HRC 57) | 22 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to the Maldives
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29 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on development | Call for input for reports on Climate Justice and right to development of children and future generations. | 29 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights | Call for input for report on Genderrefers to a social construct which places cultural and social expectations on individuals based on their assigned sex. More and Toxics (to be presented at GA 79) |
29 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures | Call for input for the report – Monitoring and Impact Assessment (to be presented at HRC 57) | 30 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism | Call for contributions for report on artificial intelligence (AI) and racial discrimination(to be presented at HRC 56) | 31 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on housing | Call for contributions for report on “Resettlement as a human rights issue” (to be presented at HRC 55 and GA 79) | 31 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia | Call for input for report on the electoral process and the situation of women in Cambodia (to be presented at HRC 57) | 31 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| Special Rapporteur on slavery | Call for input for report on “the role of workers’ organisations in preventing and addressing contemporary forms of slavery” (to be presented at GA 79) |
31 Mar 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! 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 |
| NEW!!! 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 |
| NEW!!! 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)
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12 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! Special Rapporteur freedom of peaceful assembly and of association | Call for contributions for the mandate’s visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina | 15 Apr 2024 | Read more |
| NEW!!! 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 |
| 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 |
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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 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 (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 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 |
| 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 |
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