Docip's Weekly News No. 470
2025-10-24
OCTOBER 26 - NOVEMBER 1, 2025
First meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Article 8(j) and Other Provisions of the Convention on Biological Diversity Related to Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (SB8J-1)
October 27 - 30, 2025, Panamá City, Panamá
2025 Social Forum
October 30 - 31, 2025, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
DEADLINES
Call for applications for the 3rd Biennial UN Global Indigenous Youth Forum 2026 (FAO)
Call for inputs: Report on freedom of religion or belief in relation to death and the honouring of the deceased
Call for applications of the UN Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples: Permanent Forum (UNPFII) and Expert Mechanism (EMRIP) 2026
Submission of written information by NGOs to the 41st session of the Committee on Migrant Workers
- Deadline: November 1, 2025
- Consideration of State Reports: Honduras, Indonesia, Mauritania - List of issues: Colombia - List of issues prior to reporting: Albania, Uganda
Open call: Indigenous Women’s Program Fellowship 2026 (Land is Life)
Call for inputs: report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights on "Nature conservation and cultural rights"
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Survey on disability-based violence
Call for inputs: Study of the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development on "Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Rights, and the Right to Development"
Call for inputs: Thematic study on Indigenous Peoples Free, Prior and Informed Consent, Business and Human Rights
Call for inputs: UN report on agri-business, food security and human rights
Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights: Call for inputs for the country visit to Mexico (March 9 - 20, 2026)
NEW: Call for Applications: Incomindios Lippuner Scholarship 2026
OHCHR Call for Inputs: Report on climate financing and human rights
Registration for the 70th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70)
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
NEW: 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
November 3 - 7, 2025, Geneva, Switzerland
November 3 - 14, 2025, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
- Website
- States under review: Belarus, Liberia, Malawi, Mongolia, Panama, Maldives, Andorra, Bulgaria, Honduras, United States of America, Marshall Islands, Croatia, Jamaica, Libya
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: Third report on the situation of Human Rights Defenders in the Americas (English | Spanish)
- Perverting justice: The criminalisation of land and environmental defenders in Asia (English)
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