This is the 32nd monthly info note by ILGA World on UN Special Procedures and sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC).
This issue includes:
Call for inputs:African Descent; Cultural Rights; Extreme Poverty; Food; Foreign Debt; Housing; Indigenous Peoples; Internally Displaced Persons; Older Persons; Sale of Children; Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity; Slavery; Terrorism; Torture; Violence against Women
Upcoming country visits: Cameroon, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Maldives, Mexico, Paraguay, Venezuela
IE on SOGI joins a powerful call for strong action to eradicate systemic racism against African-Americans
“A group of independent UN rights experts called on the United States Government to take decisive action to address systemic racism and racial bias in the country’s criminal justice system by launching independent investigations and ensuring accountability in all cases of excessive use of force by police. They also issued a statement regarding the nationwide protests against racial injustice.
The UN human rights experts made the call after a recent spate of killings of African-Americans involving impunity, particular disregard or depravity toward human life, and the use of public spaces to assert racial control, each characteristic of lynching.
“We strongly condemn the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, and call for systemic reform and justice. The latest videos to surface showing white men chase, corner, and execute a young man who was out jogging, or showing an officer kneeling with his weight on a man’s neck for eight minutes shock the conscience and evoke the very terror that the lynching regime in the United States was intended to inspire,” the experts said. “Given the track record of impunity for racial violence of this nature in the United States, Black people have good reason to fear for their lives.”
UN Independent Experts of the Special Procedures
Join ILGA WORLD in supporting LGBTI communities
The Special Rapporteur on violence against women published a call for input:
- On COVID-19 and the increase of domestic and gender-based violence against women (deadline 30 June 2020)
ILGA World is collecting information on these two topics from all over the world to submit joint reports to the Special Rapporteur.
If you have any data on the situation of LBTI women/persons in your country or if you want to share information on initiatives organized by civil society to support LBTI women/persons during the COVID crisis – please reach out to us on [email protected].
Call for inputs
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Mandate |
Call |
Deadline |
Additional Info |
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Special Rapporteur on internally displaced persons |
Call for inputs: report on internal displacement in the context of the slow-onset adverse effects of climate change (to be presented to the 75th GA session in October 2020) |
17 Jun 2020 |
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NEW!!! Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent |
Call for input: report on the impact of COVID-19 and the response to the pandemic, on the human rights of people of African descent (to be presented at the 45th session of the HRC) |
19 Jun 2020 |
Questionnaire |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights |
Call for input to a thematic report: Protecting human rights during and after the COVID-19 (to be presented at the 46th session of the HRC) |
19 Jun 2020 |
Questionnaire |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the right to food |
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19 Jun 2020 |
Questionnaire |
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NEW!!! Independent Expert on foreign debt |
Call for input: report on COVID-19 and the impact on financing for development, economy, poverty and the right to an adequate standard of living (to be presented to the 75th GA session in October 2020) |
19 Jun 2020 |
Questionnaire |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on housing |
Call for input: report on COVID-19 and the right to housing (to be presented to the 75th GA session in October 2020) |
19 Jun 2020 |
Questionnaire |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples |
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19 Jun 2020 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the rights of older persons |
Call for contributions: report on protecting human rights of older persons during and after the COVID-19 (to be presented to the 75th GA session in October 2020) |
19 Jun 2020 |
Questionnaire |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights |
Call for contributions: report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the enjoyment of human rights |
19 Jun 2020 |
Questionnaire |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children |
Call for contributions: report on the impact of COVID 19 pandemic on children (to be presented at the 46th session of the HRC) |
19 Jun 2020 |
Questionnaire |
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NEW!!! Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity |
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19 Jun 2020 |
Questionnaire |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery |
Call for contributions: report on the impact of COVID 19 pandemic on contemporary forms of slavery risks (to be presented at the 45th session of the HRC) |
19 Jun 2020 |
Questionnaire |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on torture |
Call for input to a report: Psychosocial dynamics conducive to torture and ill-treatment (to be presented to the 75th GA session in October 2020) |
21 Jun 2020 |
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Special Rapporteur on violence against women |
Call for submissions: COVID-19 and the increase of domestic violence against women |
30 Jun 2020 |
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NEW!!! Special Rapporteur on terrorism |
Call for inputs: report on the Interface between International Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in Counter-Terrorism Regulation: assessing legal and institutional dimensions (to be presented to the 75th GA session in October 2020) |
1 Jul 2020 |
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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 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), and Cambodia (28 March 2020).
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 World 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 |
Request to postpone from 18 Jan to 29 Jan 2021 (7 April 2020) |
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Colombia* |
Request to postpone (7 April 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 request from 6-17 Apr 2020 (19 Nov 2019) |
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Ukraine* |
Visit conducted on 30 Apr to 10 May 2019. End of Mission Statement: English |
* 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!!! Cameroon |
Minorities |
18-29 May 2020 |
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Venezuela |
Unilateral coercive measures |
3-14 Aug 2020 |
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Paraguay |
Minorities |
3-14 Aug 2020 |
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Mexico |
Internally dispaced person |
5-13 Oct 2020 |
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Maldives |
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1-10 Nov 2020 |
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Lebanon |
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3-10 Nov 2020 |
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NEW!!! Kyrgyzstan |
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17 May-4 Jun 2021 |
= Mandate frequently considers LGBTI issues.