This is the 7th monthly info note by ILGA on UN Special Procedures and sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC).

This issue includes:

Call for inputs: business and human rights; right to housing; torture and other cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; independence of judges and lawyers; contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences; minority issues.

Upcoming country visits: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Ireland, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mali, Moldova, Poland, Republic of Korea, Ukraine, United Kingdom.

Call for inputs

• ^NEW! Working Group on Business and Human Rights – Call for submission for a meeting and consultation with civil society (Geneva, 16-17 May 2018) Read more
  
  
• ^NEW! Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing – Call for submission for the 2018 report to General Assembly on "informal settlements and the right to housing" – Deadline 15 May 2018 Read more
  
  
• Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment – Questionnaire, for the upcoming thematic report of Special Rapporteur on Torture – Deadline 15 May 2018 Read more
  
  
• Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers – report on Bar Associations – Deadline 16 May 2018 Read more
  
  
• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences – Thematic report on domestic servitude of migrant women and girls – Deadline 18 May 2018 Read more
  
  
• Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of the joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with regard to human rights – Report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of the UNGASS joint commitment to effectively addressing and countering the world drug problem with regard to human rights – Deadline 18 May 2018 Read more
  
  
• Special Rapporteur on minority issues – Statelessness: A Minorities Issue – Deadline 24 May 2018 Read more
  
  
• Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences – Thematic report on the gender dimensions of contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences – Deadline 01 June 2018 Read more

Upcoming country visits

This information is regularly updated by the OHCHR here. To find out how you can support the visits, please contact the respective mandate-holder at their email, found in the OHCHR directory.