This is the 52nd monthly info note by ILGA World on UN Special Procedures: Call for inputs and upcoming country visits
This issue includes:
Call for inputs: Development; Extreme poverty; Hazardous substances and waste; Migrants; Mercenaries; Older persons; Racism; Sale and sexual exploitation of children; Sexual orientation and gender identity; Slavery; Unilateral coercive measures; Violence against women
Upcoming country visits: Algeria; Argentina; Brazil; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Ethiopia; Kyrgyzstan; Maldives; Mauritania; Moldova; Netherlands; Pakistan; Peru; Poland; Russian Federation; Tunisia
IE on SOGI new call for inputs on peace, security and SOGI
The Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity has published a call for inputs on peace, security, sexual orientation, and gender identity for his thematic report to the 77th United Nations General Assembly. This report will examine the relationship between different forms of past and present armed confrontations with the lived experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTI) persons, as well as Gender Diverse (GD) persons in such contexts. (Deadline 30 March 2022)
If you have any data on peace, security, sexual orientation, and gender identity – please send your inputs to [email protected]
For more information read here.
Call for inputs
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Mandate |
Call |
Deadline |
Additional Info |
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Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights |
Call for inputs: Report on mercury, artisanal and small-scale gold mining and human rights (to be presented at the HRC 51 in Sep 2022) |
7 Mar 2022 |
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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) |
14 Mar 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on racism |
Call for inputs: Report on combatting glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance (to be presented at the HRC) |
14 Mar 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on racism |
Call for inputs: Report on SDGs framework employment in the fight against racial discrimination, especially with regard to the continuing legacies of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, colonialism and other historical racial injustices (to be presented at the HRC) |
14 Mar 2022 |
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Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures |
Call for inputs: Reports on “secondary sanctions, civil and criminal penalties for circumvention of sanctions regimes” and “Unilateral sanctions in the cyber world” (to be presented at the HRC and GA) |
15 Mar 2022 |
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Special Rapporteur on slavery |
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15 Mar 2022 |
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NEW!!! Working Group on the use of mercenaries |
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15 Mar 2022 |
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NEW!!! Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity |
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30 Mar 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on violence against women |
Call for inputs: Report on violence against women and girls in the context of the climate crisis, including environmental degradation and related disaster risk mitigation and response (to be presented at the GA77) |
31 Mar 2022 |
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NEW!!! Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons |
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1 April 2022 |
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NEW!!! Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons |
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1 April 2022 |
Questionnaire |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights |
Call for submissions: Thematic report on “The Job Guarantee” (to be presented at the GA77) |
1 April 2022 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights |
Call for submissions on Kyrgyzstan in advance of visit |
1 April 2022 |
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NEW!!! 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 |
Questionnaire |
: 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) |
* 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!!! Mexico |
Internally displaced persons |
15-27 Mar 2021 |
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POSTPONED!!! Paraguay |
Minority issues |
24 May - 4 Jun 2021 |
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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!!! Kyrgyzstan |
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1-12 Nov 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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Costa Rica |
International solidarity |
21 Feb- 2 Mar 2022 |
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Tunisia |
Water and Sanitation |
21 Feb- 4 Mar 2022 |
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Netherlands |
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14 Mar-1 Apr 2022 |
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NEW!!! Poland |
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14 Mar-1 Apr 2022 |
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NEW!!! Moldova |
Older persons |
22-31 Mar 2022 |
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Russian Federation |
Minority issues |
1 -18 Apr 2022 |
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Maldives |
Terrorism |
4-14 Apr 2022 |
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NEW!!! Kyrgyzstan |
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4-15 Apr 2022 |
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Mauritania |
Slavery |
4 - 13 May 2022 |
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Pakistan |
Foreign debt |
16-25 May 2022 |
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NEW!!! Brazil |
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23 May – 1 June 2022 |
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Kyrgyzstan |
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23 May - 3 Jun 2022 |
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NEW!!! Argentina |
Foreign debt |
1-10 Aug 2022 |
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Maldives |
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1-12 Aug 2022 |
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Algeria |
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12-22 Sep 2022 |
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Ethiopia |
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7-18 Nov 2022 |
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NEW!!! Argentina |
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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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Ecuador |
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28 Aug - 3 Dec 2023 |
: Mandate frequently considers LGBTI issues