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Docip's Weekly News No. 477

2025-12-12

DECEMBER 14 - 20, 2025

Second WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine

December 17 – 19, 2025, New Delhi, India

 

DEADLINES

Call for Submissions: IBBY-UNESCO Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endangered Languages

NEW: Request for side events during the 51st session of the Universal Periodic Review (January 19 - 30, 2026)

Call for inputs: UN report on new technologies and transitional justice

Call for Applications: Incomindios Lippuner Scholarship 2026

OHCHR Call for Inputs: Report on climate financing and human rights

NEW: Call for Innovations of the Multi-stakeholder forum on science, technology and innovation for the SDGs

Registration for the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70)

Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children: Call for inputs for the country visit to Chad (February 16 - 26, 2026)

Call for nominations: Front Line Defenders 2026 Award for human rights defenders at risk

Call for inputs: UN report on transforming food systems to protect human rights and prevent climate harm

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

Call for inputs: EMRIP study on “the rights of Indigenous Peoples in conflict and post-conflict situations”

Call for applications for the 3rd Biennial UN Global Indigenous Youth Forum 2026 (FAO)

NEW: Call for applications for the 2026 International Institute for Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Policy

Call for inputs: UN report on Corporate Governance, Business and Human Rights

NGO contributions to the stakeholder report for UPR 53 (November 2 - 13, 2026) 

  • Deadline: April 10, 2026
  • Countries: Suriname, Greece, Samoa, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Hungary, Papua New Guinea, Tajikistan, United Republic of Tanzania, Antigua and Barbuda, Eswatini, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, Ireland

Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity: Call for inputs for the country visit to Finland

 

FUTURE EVENTS

100th session of the Committee on the rights of the child

January 12 - 30, 2026, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland (TBC)

  • Website
  • Consideration of State Reports: Burkina Faso, Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Spain, Uganda

51st session of the Universal Periodic Review 

January 19 - 30, 2026, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Website
  • States under review: Micronesia (Federated States of), Lebanon, Mauritania, Nauru, Rwanda, Nepal, Saint Lucia, Oman, Austria, Australia, Georgia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sao Tome and Principe

25th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)

April 20 - May 1, 2025, New York, USA

  • Theme: "Ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ health, including in the context of conflict"
  • Website

19th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP)

July 13 - 17 , 2025, Geneva, Switzerland (date to be confirmed)

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Indigenous Peoples and just energy transition (English)
  • The Landscape of Public International Funding for Human Rights Defenders (English)

 

 

Published earlier this week: Docip's Summary Notes on the 18th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP)!

Download the PDF here: https://bit.ly/docip-ns20-en

 

 

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