Docip's Weekly News No. 205
2020-06-12
JUNE 14 - 20, 2020
43rd session of the Human Rights Council (resumed)
June 15 - 19, 2020, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Webinar: Brazil in crisis – COVID-19 is the tip of the iceberg
June 15, 2020, 3:00PM UTC/GMT English, Portuguese
Webinar: Indigenous Women and Youth in the time of Covid-19
June 17, 2020, 2:00–3:00PM UTC/GMT English
Webinar: Violations of Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the times of COVID-19 pandemic
June 18, 2020, 4:00–5:00PM UTC/GMT English
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DEADLINES
Call for inputs: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the impact of COVID-19 on Indigenous Peoples
UPR-Info: call for applications for Pre-Sessions 36
- Deadline (extended for Croatia, Bulgaria, Maldives, and Marshall Islands): June 15, 2020
Call for inputs: UN report on Internal displacement in the context of the slow-onset adverse effects of climate change
Call for inputs: Joint questionnaire of special procedures - Protecting human rights during and after the COVID-19
Call for inputs: EMRIP Study on the Right to Land under the UNDRIP
Call for inputs: EMRIP Report on the Right to Repatriation of ceremonial objects, human remains, and intangible properties under the UNDRIP
Call for inputs: Suggestions for EMRIP proposals to the Human Rights Council in September 2020
Call for submissions: 37th session of the UPR (Jan/Feb 2021)
- (Micronesia, Lebanon, Mauritania, Nauru, Rwanda, Nepal, Saint Lucia, Oman, Austria, Myanmar, Australia, Georgia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sao Tome and Principe)
- Deadline: July 9, 2020
FUTURE EVENTS
July 7 - 16, 2020, UNHQ, New York, USA
SOCIAL NETWORK NEWS
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Defending and protecting the defenders: Achievements, lessons learned and future perspectives (English | French | Spanish)
- Considerations on Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Descendants, and Other Ethnic Groups During the COVID-19 Pandemic (English | Spanish)
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