This is the 56th monthly info note by ILGA World on UN Special Procedures: call for inputs and upcoming country visits
This issue includes:
Call for inputs: Environment; Foreign debt; Freedom of expression; Freedom of religion; Housing; Unilateral coercive measures.
Upcoming country visits: Algeria; Argentina; Ecuador; Ethiopia; Japan; Liechtenstein; Luxembourg; Maldives; Mexico; Nigeria; Paraguay; Pakistan; Peru; Poland; Portugal; Turkey; Slovenia; Uruguay
Call for inputs
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Mandate |
Call |
Deadline |
Additional Info |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures |
Call for inputs: Sanctions Research Platform |
4 July 2022 |
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Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing |
Call for inputs: Report on the right to adequate housing and climate change(to be presented at the HRC52) |
8 July 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief |
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11 July 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression |
Call for inputs: Report on challenges to freedom of opinion and expression in times of conflicts and disturbances (to be presented at the GA77) |
11 July 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment |
Call for inputs on upcoming country visit to Portugal |
1 Aug 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment |
Call for inputs on upcoming country visit to Slovenia |
10 Aug 2022 |
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NEW!!! Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt |
Call for inputs: “New study on a proposed non binding set of practical guidelines for efficient asset recovery (HRC resolution 46/11, paragraph 24)” |
15 Aug 2022 |
: 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 ([email protected]).
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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 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 you can support the visits, please contact the respective mandate-holders at their e-mail addresses, available here.
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Country |
Mandate |
Dates |
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POSTPONED!!! Cyprus |
Disappearances |
21-30 Jun 2021 |
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POSTPONED!!! Singapore |
Terrorism |
12-19 Jul 2021 |
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POSTPONED!!! Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Mercenaries |
3-11 Oct 2021 |
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POSTPONED!!! Mozambique |
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6- 21 Nov 2021 |
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POSTPONED!!! Serbia |
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15-24 Nov 2021 |
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POSTPONED!!! Russian Federation |
Minority issues |
1 -18 Apr 2022 |
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Uruguay |
Disappearances |
7-14 July 2022 |
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NEW!!! Poland |
Migrants |
12-21 July 2022 |
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Turkey |
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18-27 July 2022 |
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NEW!!! Luxembourg |
Business and human rights |
18-27 July 2022 |
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Argentina |
Foreign debt |
1-10 Aug 2022 |
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Maldives |
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1-12 Aug 2022 |
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Mexico |
Internally displaced persons |
29 Aug - 9 Sep 2022 |
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NEW!!! Nigeria |
Older persons |
29 Aug - 9 Sep 2022 |
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Algeria |
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12-22 Sep 2022 |
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NEW!!! Portugal |
Environment |
19-27 Sep 2022 |
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NEW!!! Japan |
Internally displaced persons |
26 Sep-7 Oct 2022 |
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NEW!!! Slovenia |
Environment |
29 Sep-6 Oct 2022 |
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Ethiopia |
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7-18 Nov 2022 |
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Argentina |
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14-25 Nov 2022 |
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Paraguay |
Minority issues |
14-25 Nov 2022 |
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Peru |
Water and Sanitation |
28 Nov-9 Dec 2022 |
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Pakistan |
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5-16 Dec 2022 |
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NEW!!! Liechtenstein |
Foreign debt |
12-19 June 2023 |
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Ecuador |
Extreme poverty |
28 Aug - 3 Dec 2023 |
: Mandate frequently considers LGBTI issues