OHCHR | calls-for-input

Calls for input and comments

On this page you will find a list of opportunities to provide input and/or feedback to the work of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the various human rights mechanisms it supports. Depending on the call, invited parties may include Member States, international organizations, national human rights institutions, NGOs and civil society organizations, academics, individuals, and others. Please see each call for details.

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Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity

Thematic report: Gender, sexual orientation and gender identity

Deadline: 28-02-2021

Working Group on the use of mercenaries

Report on the role of PMSCs in humanitarian action

Deadline: 09-03-2021

Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights

Questionnaire on the right to benefit from scientific progress and its applications

Deadline: 15-03-2021

Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery

Report on the nexus between Forced Displacement and Contemporary Forms of Slavery

Deadline: 15-03-2021

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders

Call for input to a report on the long term detention of human rights defenders

Deadline: 19-03-2021

Independent expert older persons

Thematic report on ageism and age discrimination

Deadline: 22-03-2021

Independent expert older persons

Thematic report on the human rights of older women

Deadline: 22-03-2021

Special Rapporteur on the right to development

Climate change related policies and projects from a right to development perspective

Deadline: 28-03-2021

Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights

SR toxics and human rights. Impact analysis of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)

Deadline: 31-03-2021

Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights

Call for submission, “The lifecycle of plastics and human rights”

Deadline: 31-03-2021

Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery

The Role of Organised Criminal Groups with regard to Contemporary Forms of Slavery

Deadline: 16-04-2021

Sp. Rapporteur on occupied Palestine

Call for Submissions: legal status of Israeli settlements under the Rome Statute

Deadline: 30-04-2021

Independent Expert on human rights and the environment

Call for Inputs Healthy and Sustainable Food: Reducing the Environmental Impacts of the Global Food System on Human Rights

Deadline: 01-05-2021

Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development

Thematic studies of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development

Deadline: 31-12-2021

Closed

The calls listed below have closed within the last 30 days.

Sp. Rapporteur on Racial Discrimination

Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance: Call for input

Closed on: 24-02-2021

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus to the Human Rights Council

Closed on: 19-02-2021

Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression

Report on disinformation

Closed on: 15-02-2021

Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons especially women and children

Call for written submissions: Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children

Closed on: 14-02-2021

Working Group on the use of mercenaries

Report on the provision of military and security cyber products and services by ‘cyber mercenaries’ and its human rights impact

Closed on: 12-02-2021

Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures

UCM-Study on the notion, characteristics, legal status and targets of unilateral sanctions

Closed on: 01-02-2021

Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants

Call for inputs for the Special Rapporteur’s report on pushback practices and their impact on the human rights of migrants

Closed on: 01-02-2021

Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association

To inform the SR’s report to be presented to the 47th session of the Human Rights Council

Closed on: 30-01-2021

See also

Protecting and promoting civic space

Special Procedures: Consultations, calls for input and reports