Docip's Weekly News No. 455
11.07.2025
JULY 13 - 19, 2025
June 23 - July 17, 2025, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland
- Website
- Provisional Agenda
- Programme of Work
- NGO information note
- Registration
- Consideration of State Reports: Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Latvia, North Macedonia, Spain, Viet Nam - LOIPR: Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Denmark, Ghana, Liechtenstein, Morocco, Rwanda, Sweden, Switzerland
47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee
July 6 - 16, 2025, UNESCO headquarter, Paris, France
Preparatory Meeting of the Global Indigenous Peoples' Caucus for EMRIP
- Date: July 12, 2025, 2:00 - 5:00 PM and July 13, 2025, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
- Venue: Restaurant of the ICRC (Bus 8, 20, 22, 60 - Bus stop: Appia)
- More information: Draft agenda
- Languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian
Orientation/Training on EMRIP for new participants
July 14 - 18, 2025, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
July 14 - 23, 2025, UNHQ, New York, USA
DEADLINES
Call for Expressions of Interest: "Heart of Conservation" Initiative
Call for inputs: implementation of Resolution A/RES/78/201 on human rights and cultural diversity
Committee on Enforced Disappearances: Call for inputs on the draft general comment on women, girls and enforced disappearances
Request for financial assistance to participate in the 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)
Indigenous Peoples’ Questionnaire on Pesticides and the Right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FAO)
NGO contributions to the stakeholder report for UPR 51 (Jan - Feb 2026)
- Countries: Micronesia (Federated States of), Lebanon, Mauritania, Nauru, Rwanda, Nepal, Saint Lucia, Oman, Austria, Australia, Georgia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sao Tome and Principe
- Deadline: July 17, 2025
Call for applications: WIPO Training, Mentoring and Matchmaking Program on Intellectual Property for Women Entrepreneurs from Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
- Countries: Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama
- Deadline: July 18, 2025
Minamata Convention on Mercury: Call for proposals for pre-COP-6 online events, Knowledge Labs, and Exhibition Booths
Communications Procedure of the Commission on the Status of Women
Designation of representatives from accredited organizations to attend the 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)
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: Draft guidelines on addressing multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination against women and girls with disabilities (CRPD)
NEW: NGO contributions to the stakeholder report for UPR 52 (May 4 - 15, 2026)
- Countries: Namibia, Niger, Mozambique, Estonia, Paraguay, Belgium, Denmark, Palau, Somalia, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Latvia, Sierra Leone, Singapore
- Deadline: October 10, 2025
FUTURE EVENTS
August 9, 2025
- Theme: "Indigenous Peoples and AI: Defending Rights, Shaping Futures"
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Strengthening Land Rights Recognition in Forestlands of the East Asia and Pacific Region (English)
- The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services (English)
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