Docip's Weekly News No. 487
2026-03-13
MARCH 15 - 21, 2026
February 23 - March 31, 2026, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
March 2 - 19, 2026, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland
- Website
- Provisional Agenda
- Programme of Work
- NGO information note
- Registration
- Consideration of State Reports: Andorra, Canada, Chad, Republic of Moldova, Slovakia - List of issues: Rwanda - List of issues prior to reporting: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Hungary, Mexico, Senegal
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
March 9 - 20, 2026, UNHQ, New York, USA
March 9 - 19, 2026, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland
DEADLINES
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)
Call for input: OHCHR Online Survey on “Civil Society Space”
Call for applications: FAO Young Forest Champions Initiative (Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Peru, Uganda and Zambia)
NEW: Call for proposals for the Indigenous Media Zone (IMZ) during the 25th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII)
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, United States of America
NEW: Incomindios Youth Scholarship 2026 - Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP)
NEW: Call for inputs on intimidation and reprisals for the annual report of the Secretary-General
NEW: Call for inputs for the UN study on the implications of sea-level rise for the full enjoyment of human rights
NEW: Call for inputs for the visit of the Working Group on Business and Human Rights to Guatemala
NEW: Call for inputs: UN report on technologies related to climate change and their impacts on human rights
Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity: Call for inputs for the country visit to Finland
NEW: Call for inputs for the UN study on the implications of plastic pollution for the full enjoyment of human rights
FUTURE EVENTS
April 13 - May 1, 2026, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland
- Website
- Consideration of State Reports: Burkina Faso, Cuba, Cyprus, Serbia, Slovenia, Uzbekistan
April 20 - May 1, 2026, UNHQ, New York, USA
- Theme: "Ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ health, including in the context of conflict"
- Website
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Road map for enhancing co-benefits from implementation of the Minamata Convention and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (English | French | Spanish)
- IPRI Annual Report 2025 (English | French | Spanish)
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