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Call for Input, UN SR on unilateral coercive measures
2025-10-20
The UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights has issued a second call for input to collect feedback, comments and suggestions on her first draft of the Guidance on Effective Remedy, Responsibility and Redress in Unilateral Sanctions Environment.

Call for Input, ACHPR Draft Advocacy Framework for withdrawing reservations on some provisions of the Maputo Protocol
2025-10-22
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) invites stakeholders to submit their contributions to improve the final text of its Draft Advocacy Framework for withdrawing reservations on some provisions of the Maputo Protocol on the rights of women and girls. Please email submissions of no more than 5 pages to au-banjul@africanunion.org, copying MbengueI@africanunion.org.

Call for Input, UN SR on freedom of religion or belief
2025-10-24
The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief has issued a call for input to inform a report on freedom of religion or belief in relation to death and the honouring of the deceased. This report will be presented at the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council in March 2026.

Registration Deadline for Attendance, Committee Against Torture (CAT) 83
2025-10-26
NGOs and other civil society actors that have submitted written information to the Committee Against Torture (CAT) in respect of a given State party under review during the Committee’s 83rd session may register to participate in person in the 83rd session in November 2025. Instructions for getting accredited and for registering to participate in the session are available on the Committee’s webpage.
All public meetings of the Committee are also generally webcast live at http://webtv.un.org/.
Please note that several of the treaty body webpages currently warn that “due to the United Nations Regular Budget Liquidity Situation,” the agenda, dates and modality of treaty body sessions may be subject to change. More information may be available by checking the Committee’s main webpage (under “Sessions”), the UN’s Indico calendar or by contacting ohchr-tbs@un.org via email.

Call for Input, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
2025-10-31
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has issued a call for input to inform draft guidelines on addressing multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination against women and girls with disabilities. The deadline for submissions in response to this call for input has been extended to October 31, 2025.

Call for Input, UN WG on discrimination against women and girls
2025-10-31
The UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls has issued a call for inputs to inform its preparation of a report on the digital space and artificial intelligence’s existing and potential impact on substantive gender equality. The Working Group will present this report to the UN Human Rights Council in June 2026.

Call for Input, UN SR on the rights of persons with disabilities
2025-10-31 | Colombia, Colombia
The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities has issued a call for input to inform a report on equal participation of persons with disabilities in political life. The Special Rapporteur will present this report to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2026.

Call for Input, UN SR on the sale and sexual exploitation of children
2025-10-31 | Colombia, Colombia
The UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children has issued a call for input to inform her final report to the UN Human Rights Council in February-March 2026. “The report will focus on an overview of the main developments relating to the mandate and new patterns of sale, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children with a view to developing ideas and recommendations for taking the mandate forward and effectively combatting the phenomenon.” While the Special Rapporteur welcomes all submissions, she has outlined in the call for input some specific questions she’s looking to receive information on.

CRC, Civil Society Submissions Due
2025-11-01
In preparation for its Pre-Sessional Working Group for the 102nd session, the Committee on the Rights of the Child is accepting written contributions from NGOs and other civil society actors to inform its adoption of a list of issues for Suriname. The Committee requests that written contributions be submitted through the Child Rights Connect website.

Call for Input, UN SR on minority issues
2025-11-03
The UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues has issued a call for input to inform his upcoming visit to the European Union in January 2026.

CMW, Civil Society Submissions Due
2025-11-03
In preparation for its 41st session, the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers (CMW) is accepting written contributions from NGOs and other civil society actors to inform the Committee’s assessment of State reports received from Honduras, Indonesia, and Mauritania, as well as to inform the adoption of lists of issues for Colombia, Albania, and Uganda.

Call for Input, UN SR on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)
2025-11-07 | Colombia, Colombia
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has issued a call for input to inform her upcoming report on the progress in implementation of recommendations made to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea during the third and fourth cycle of the universal periodic review of the Human Rights Council. She will present this report to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2026.

Call for Input, UN SR on freedom of assembly
2025-11-07
The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association has issued a call for input to inform a report on the impact of digital and AI-assisted surveillance on assembly and association rights, including chilling effects. The Special Rapporteur will present this report to the UN Human Rights Council in June 2026.

Call for Input, UN SR on unilateral coercive measures
2025-11-07
The UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights has issued a call for input to inform her upcoming visit to Cuba, from 11 to 21 November 2025.

Call for Feedback, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
2025-11-07
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is seeking “feedback on its first draft of a General Recommendation on reparations for the transatlantic trade in Africans for chattel slavery and the ensuing and continuing harms inflicted on people of African descent,” and has issued a call for input for all interested parties to submit written comments.

Call for Input, UN WG on people of African descent
2025-11-10
The UN Working Group of experts on people of African descent has issued a call for input to inform its preparation of a report titled “Crossings and journeys: people of African descent in global migration and the enduring architecture of racialization.” The Working Group will present this report to the UN Human Rights Council and to the UN General Assembly in 2026.

Call for Input, UN IE on the rights of persons with albinism
2025-11-10
The UN Independent Expert on the rights of persons with albinism has issued a call for input to inform her upcoming visit to Portugal.

Call for Input, UN WG on discrimination against women and girls
2025-11-14
The UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls has issued a call for input to inform a thematic report on the digital space and artificial intelligence’s existing and potential impact on substantive gender equality.

Call for Input, UN SR in the field of cultural rights
2025-11-15
The UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights has issued a call for input to inform a report on the intersections between nature conservation and cultural rights. The Special Rapporteur will be receiving contributions from October 10 to November 15, 2025. Her finalized report will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2026.

Call for Input, UN IE on human rights and international solidarity
2025-11-21
The UN Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity has issued a call for input to inform her upcoming report on peace, considering both its negative (absence of violence or war) and positive (active pursuit of a culture of peace and solidarity) dimensions.

Call for Input, UN IE on foreign debt and human rights
2025-11-21
The UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights has issued a call for input to inform her upcoming report on international assistance and cooperation. The call for input delineates some of the key questions that the independent expert is looking to address.

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), Civil Society Submissions Due
2025-11-28
In preparation for its 79th session, this Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) is accepting written contributions from NGOs and other civil society actors to inform the Committee’s adoption of a list of issues for Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Slovakia, and Zambia.

Call for Input, UN EM on the Right to Development (EMRTD)
2025-11-30
The UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development (EMRTD) has issued a call for input to inform a thematic study on thematic study on “Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cultural Rights, and the Right to Development.”

Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus, Call for Submissions
2025-11-30
The UN Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus has issued a call for submission of information and documentation relevant to its investigation of human rights violations and abuses committed in Belarus since May 1, 2020.

Call for Input, Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
2025-11-30
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has issued a call for responses to a survey that will inform its drafting of guidelines “to support the prevention, eradication, punishment, and reparation of violence based on disability.”

Human Rights Committee (ICCPR), Civil Society Submissions Due
2025-12-01
In preparation for its 145th session, the Human Rights Committee is accepting written contributions from NGOs and other civil society actors to inform the Committee’s assessment of reports following up on the most recent concluding observations issued to Botswana, Cambodia, and Ukraine.

Call for Input, UN WG on Business and Human Rights
2025-12-01
The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights has issued a call for input to inform a report on agri-business, food security and human rights. The call for input delineates the key questions and types of input/comments that the working group is seeking. This report will be presented at the 62nd session of the Human Rights Council in June 2026.

Call for Input, UN WG on Business and Human Rights
2025-12-01
The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights has issued a call for input to inform a thematic study on issues related to Indigenous Peoples’ free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), business, and human rights. This study will be presented as an addendum report to the Human Rights Council in its 62th session in June 2026. Inputs can be country-specific or of a general nature.

Call for Submissions, UN Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic
2025-12-01
The UN Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic invites submissions of information and documentation to inform the report that it must submit to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2026. The type of information the Commission of Inquiry is particularly interested in, as well as instructions on how to submit information, are detailed in the Commission’s Call for Submissions.

Call for Input, UN SR on counter-terrorism and human rights
2025-12-01
The UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights has issued a call for input to inform an upcoming thematic report on the definitions of “terrorism”, “terrorist organisation” and “violent extremism” to be presented to the Human Rights Council in March 2026.
