ILGA World (The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) and the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) have compiled a series of factsheets highlighting the work that UN Special Procedures - independent human rights experts, appointed to monitor and report on human rights violations - have undetaken to defend the rights of LGBTI persons.

The factsheets compile the references and recommendations made by these experts to LGBTI persons, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). They cover all the thematic and country visit reports, and the communications sent to States between January 2011 and December 2021.

You can download the factsheets here:

• Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
• Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons
• Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
• Independent Expert on foreign debt
• Independent expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
• Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity
• Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali
• Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia
• Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Central African Republic

• Working Group on discrimination against women and girls
• Working Group on arbitrary detention
• Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances
• Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
• Working group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination
• Working Group on people of African descent

• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
• Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
• Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
• Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
• Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment
• Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
• Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
• Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
• Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
• Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
• Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples
• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
• Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
• Special Rapporteur on minority issues
• Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
• Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context
• Special Rapporteur on the right to education
• Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
• Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers
• Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy
• Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children
• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences
• Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children
• Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
• Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
• Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
• Special Rapporteur on the right to development
• Special Rapporteur on the right to food
• Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes
• Special Rapporteur on the environment
• Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members
• Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
• Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967