Docip's Weekly News No. 440
2025-03-28
MARCH 30 - APRIL 5, 2025
February 24 - April 4, 2025, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
March 17 - April 4, 2025, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland
- Website
- Annotated provisional agenda
- Programme of work
- Information note for victims, CSOs and NHRIs
- Registration
- Consideration of State Reports: Central African Republic, Gambia, Malta - List of issues: Croatia, Luxembourg, Togo - Follow-up: Panama - Additional information: Belgium, Serbia, Armenia, Gabon, Montenegro, Argentina, Peru
DEADLINES
Call for contributions to the report of the Special Rapporteur on the recognition of Indigenous Peoples
Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing: Call for inputs for the country visit to Guatemala (July 2025)
Call for inputs: UN report on the Worst Forms of Child Labour – taking stock of progress and remaining challenges
Call for input for the UN report on Military Activities and Toxics
Call for inputs for the report of the Special Rapporteur on ”Identification, Documentation, Demarcation, Registration, and Titling of Indigenous Peoples’ Lands: Practices and Lessons Learned”
Call for nominations of experts for the second IPBES global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services
Call for nominations of fellows for the second IPBES global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services
NGO contributions to the stakeholder report for UPR 50 (Oct - Nov 2025)
- Countries: Belarus, Liberia, Malawi, Mongolia, Panama, Maldives, Andorra, Bulgaria, Honduras, United States of America, Marshall Islands, Croatia, Jamaica, Libya
- Deadline: April 7, 2025
14th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights: Call for session proposals
Call for inputs: UN report on environmental impact assessments, strategic environmental impact assessments and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment
NEW: Call for applications of the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples: 47th session of the World Heritage Committee
Call for applications for the UPR 50 Pre-Sessions (August 26 - 29, 2025)
- Countries: Belarus, Liberia, Malawi, Mongolia, Panama, Maldives, Andorra, Bulgaria, Honduras, United States of America, Marshall Islands, Croatia, Jamaica, Libya
- Deadline: April 25, 2025
Call for inputs: UN report on Human Rights in the life cycle of Renewable Energy and Critical Minerals
Call for inputs: UN report on Labour Migration, Business and Human Rights
Call for inputs: UN report on human rights defenders working on climate change and a just transition
NEW: Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity: Call for inputs for the country visit to Finland (May 2025)
NEW: Call for inputs: UN report on land and the right to adequate housing
NEW: Working Group on discrimination against women and girls: Call for inputs for the country visit to Zimbabwe (July/August 2025)
Call for inputs: UN Report on addressing the challenges and barriers to the full realization of the human rights of the people of the Marshall Islands stemming from the State’s nuclear legacy
FUTURE EVENTS
April 7 - 17, 2025, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland
- Website
- Consideration of State Reports: Jamaica, Mexico, Niger - List of issues: Tajikistan - LoIPR: Ecuador, Fiji, Guinea
April 7 - May 2, 2025, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland
- Website
- Consideration of State Reports: Armenia, France, Mauritius, Monaco, Turkmenistan, Ukraine - List of issues: Pakistan, Tajikistan - LoIPR: Antigua and Barbuda, Botswana, Iceland, Iraq, Kenya, Montenegro, State of Palestine, Uruguay
April 21 - May 2, 2025, UNHQ, New York, USA
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- The Cali Roundtable - Enhancing biodiversity finance for Indigenous Peoples and local communities, women and youth (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
- Second report on the state of the world’s forest genetic resources (English)
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