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NEWSStay informed on a daily basis about the latest issues concerning Indigenous Peoples: conferences, documentation, international processes, discussions, etc.

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Docip's Weekly News No. 486


2026-03-06

MARCH 8 - 14, 2026

61st session of the Human Rights Council

February 23 - March 31, 2026, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

145th session of the Committee on civil and political rights

March 2 - 19, 2026, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland

52nd session of the Intergovernmental Committee on intellectual property and genetic resources, traditional knowledge and folklore

March 4 - 13, 2026, WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

34th session of the Committee on the rights of persons with disabilities

March 9 - 27, 2026, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland

  • Website
  • Programme of work
  • Information note for stakeholders
  • Consideration of State Reports: Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Pakistan, Samoa - List of issues: Chad, Colombia, Eswatini, Iceland, Ireland, Micronesia (Federated States of), Panama, Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago, Zimbabwe - List of issues prior to reporting: Cyprus, Jordan, Luxembourg, United Republic of Tanzania - Lists of issues in absence of a report: Syrian Arab Republic

70th session of the Commission on the status of women

March 9 - 20, 2026, UNHQ, New York, USA

30th session of the Committee on enforced disappearances

March 9 - 19, 2026, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland

International women's day

March 8, 2026

 

DEADLINES

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

Call for inputs: Strengthening the Voice of Indigenous Peoples - Global Reflections on the UN Permanent Forum’s Future

Call for input: OHCHR Online Survey on “Civil Society Space”

Call for inputs: UN report on Enforced Disappearances and Memorialization

Open call for hearings with Indigenous Peoples on the global plan of action for the health of Indigenous Peoples (WHO)

Call for inputs: Protection of human rights defenders in the digital age

Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism: Call for inputs for the country visit to Canada

Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples: Call for inputs for the country visit to Australia (November 2 - 13, 2026)

NEW: Call for applications: FAO Young Forest Champions Initiative (Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Peru, Uganda and Zambia)

Call for inputs: UN report on Planning and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment

Open call for stakeholder inputs to inform the 2027 Global Sustainable Development Report

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

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

April 20 - May 1, 2026, UNHQ, New York, USA

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

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • UNPFII Report: International expert group meeting on the theme “Recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ rights in the context of the climate crisis, biodiversity governance and territorial integrity: focusing on nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples, including pastoralists and shifting cultivators” (E/C.19/2026/3)
  • The status of land tenure and governance (English)

 


 

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