Bulletin: UN engagement opportunities

Calls for inputs

** Updated on February 21, 2024 **

Civil society

• Civil society and international solidarity | Extended until Mar 1, 2024 | Read here.

Civil and political rights

• Legal capacity and informed consent of older persons | By Feb 23, 2024 | Read here.

• Elections and enforced disappearances | Extended until Feb 26, 2024 | Read here.

• Convention against Torture Special Fund - for post-visit countries | By Mar 1, 2024 | Read here.

• Digital technologies in the administration of justice | By Mar 9, 2024 | Read here.

• Missing persons | By Mar 14, 2024 | Read here.

• Cyberbullying against persons with disabilities | By Mar 15, 2024 | Read here.

Gender

• Climate change and girls' education | By Mar 1, 2024 | Read here.

• LGBTI rights in business activities | By Mar 1, 2024 | Read here.

• Gender and toxics | By Mar 29, 2024 | Read here.

• Violence against women in sport | By Apr 8, 2024 | Read here.
  ** Note civil society concerns about engaging with the Special Rapporteur on violence against women.

Economic, social and cultural rights​

• Water management in food systems | By Mar 15, 2024 | Read here.

• Eviction, displacement and resettlement | By Mar 31, 2024 | Read here.

• Workers’ organizations preventing slavery | By Mar 31, 2024 | Read here.

• Rights of caregivers and those receiving care | By Apr 13, 2024 | Read here.

Environment​

• Right to know about pollution | By Mar 22, 2024 | Read here.

Racism

• Countering religious incitement | N/A, perhaps by Jan-Feb? | Read here.

• African descent, law enforcement and racial justice | By Apr 1, 2024 | Read here.

• Implementation of Decade of African Descent | By Apr 15, 2024 | Read here.

Migrants

• Facilitating and hindering migrants' contribution to society | By Feb 28, 2024 | Read here.

• Racism against migrants | By Mar 31, 2024 | Read here.

Indigenous Peoples​

• Mobile Indigenous Peoples | By Mar 15, 2024 | Read here.

Miscellaneous

• Right to development in international cooperation | By Feb 24, 2024 | Read here.

• Status of the treaty bodies | By Feb 26, 2024 | Read here.

• Sanctions and access to justice | By Feb 28, 2024 | Read here.

• Right to development - the individual and collective dimensions | By Mar 10, 2024 | Read here.

• Arms transfers and mercenaries | By Mar 15, 2024 | Read here.

• Financing and mercenaries | By Mar 15, 2024 | Read here.

• Right to development reports: (1) Climate justice; (2) Children and future generations. | Extended until Mar 29, 2024 | Read here.

• Monitoring sanctions | By Mar 30, 2024 | Read here.

• Guiding Principles on Sanctions | By Apr 30, 2024 | Read here.

Country-specific (including country visits)

• Group of Experts on Nicaragua | Deadline for submissions N/A (as early as possible) | Read here.

• Commission of Inquiry on OPT/Israel - gender-based crimes | No deadline announced (for presentation in June), perhaps submit by February? | Read here.

• Commission of Inquiry on OPT/Israel - international crimes | No deadline announced (for presentation in June), perhaps submit by February? | Read here.

• Nuclear legacy of Marshall Islands | Extended until Feb 29, 2024 | Read here.

• Special Rapporteur on education - visit to USA | By Mar 2, 2024 | Read here.

• Independent Expert on international order - visit to the Maldives | By Mar 8, 2024 | Read here.

• Special Rapporteur on truth, justice and reparation - visit to Finland | By Mar 11, 2024 | Read here.

• Special Rapporteur on truth, justice and reparation - visit to Sweden | By Mar 11, 2024 | Read here.

• Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders - visit to Brazil | By Mar 11, 2024 | Read here.

• Special Rapporteur on water & sanitation - visit to Canada | By Mar 15, 2024 | Read here.

• Independent Expert on international solidarity visit to Denmark (including Greenland) | By Mar 15, 2024 | Read here.

• Women’s rights in Cambodia | By Mar 31, 2024 | Read here.

• Special Rapporteur on Burundi | No deadline - permanent open call for inputs | Read here.

• Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan | By Jul 31, 2024 | Read here.

 

Sessions of inter-governmental bodies

Geneva

• Expert meeting on repatriation of funds of illicit origin | Feb 13 | Register to attend by Feb 12.

• Human Rights Council 55th session | Feb 26 to Apr 5 | Written submissions under items 1-4 by Feb 5 at noon; and under items 5-10 by Feb 12 | Info on NGO participation here.

• WHO Human Reproduction Programme's Policy and Coordination Committee | Apr 15 to Apr 16.

• Permanent Forum of People of African Descent 3rd session | Apr 16 to Apr 19 | Written submissions deadline over | Register to attend by Apr 5.

• Intergovernmental Working Group on Durban 22nd session | Apr 29 to May 3.

• Universal Periodic Review 46th session | Apr 29 to May 10.

• World Health Assembly 77th session | May 27 to Jun 1.

• Universal Periodic Review 47th session (dates TBD) | Oct 1 to Nov 30 | Written submissions by Apr 8.

New York​​​

• Commission for Social Development 62nd session | Feb 5 to Feb 14 | Register to attend by Jan 12.

• Commission on the Status of Women 68th session | Mar 11 to Mar 22 | Register to attend by Jan 26.

• Economic and Social Council - elections | Apr 9.

• Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 23rd session | Apr 15 to Apr 26.

• Youth Forum | Apr 16 to Apr 18.

• Commission on Population and Development 57th session | Apr 29 to May 3 | Written submissions deadline over. | Info on NGO participation here.

• Open-ended Working Group on Ageing 14th session | May 20 to 22 and 24 | Written submissions by Apr 12 | New NGOs register to attend by Apr 1..

• States parties to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (TBC) | May 23.

Vienna

• Commission on Narcotic Drugs 67th session | Mar 14 to Mar 22.

• Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice 33rd session (TBC) | May 13 to May 17.

• Constructive Dialogues for the UNTOC Review Mechanism | Register to attend by Feb 4.

  • Technical Assistance & International Cooperation | Jun 7.

  • Trafficking in persons | Jul 10.

  • Smuggling of migrants | Jul 15.

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