Docip's Weekly News No. 458
01.08.2025
AUGUST 3 - 9, 2025
Second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment (INC-5.2)
August 5 - 14, 2025, Geneva, Switzerland
August 9, 2025
DEADLINES
Communications Procedure of the Commission on the Status of Women
Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples: Call for inputs for the country visit to Botswana (September 2025)
Registration of NGO written statements at the 60th session of the Human Rights Council
Call for contributions: a special volume of articles about funding and financing the territories of life
NEW: Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples - call for applications: 14th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (November 24 - 26, 2025)
NEW: Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples - call for applications: 14th meeting of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) and 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30)
NEW: Keepers of the Earth Fund (KOEF): Call for projects in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa
NEW: Call for applications for the UPR 51 Pre-Sessions (November 26 - 28, 2025)
- Countries: Australia, Austria, Micronesia (Federated States of), Georgia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Lebanon, Mauritania, Nauru, Nepal, Oman, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe
- Deadline: August 25, 2025
NEW: Call for applications for 16 mandate holders to be appointed at the 61st session of the Human Rights Council
- Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, member from Asia
- Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, member from the Arctic
- Deadline: August 28, 2025
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: UNESCO Global Survey on Indigenous Languages
NEW: Call for applications: OHCHR Indigenous Fellowship Program 2026
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 11 - 29, 2025, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Consideration of State Reports: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Finland, Kiribati, Maldives, Mali, State of Palestine
September 8 - October 3, 2025, Geneva, Switzerland
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