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Docip's Weekly News No. 485

2026-02-27

MARCH 1 - 7, 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

 

DEADLINES

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

Registration for the 25th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (members of accredited entities)

Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants: Call for inputs for the country visit to Brazil

Call for applications of the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples: 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee

Call for applications of the Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples: 19th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Working Group on the use of mercenaries: Call for inputs for the country visit to Colombia

NEW: 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

NEW: 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)

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

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

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

  • Website
  • 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

  • Website
  • Consideration of State Reports: Malawi, Samoa - List of issues: Cabo Verde, Denmark, Republic of Korea - Reports on additional information: Ecuador, Iraq - List of themes on additional information: Colombia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania

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

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

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities (A/HRC/61/33)
  • Global analytical study on the implementation of a human-rights based approach into the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (A/HRC/61/36)
  • Report on the eleventh session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights (A/HRC/61/39)
  • Defending dignity and claiming rights: human rights defenders hold firm to universal values as others desert them (A/HRC/61/40)
  • Guiding Principles on Resettlement (A/HRC/61/43)
  • Land and the right to food (A/HRC/61/51)

 

 

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