Docip's Weekly News No. 469
17.10.2025
OCTOBER 19 - 25, 2025
October 20 - 24, 2025, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
27th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-27) and 1st 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 20 - 30, 2025, Panamá City, Panamá
United Nations Day
October 24, 2025
DEADLINES
NEW: Call for applications for the 3rd Biennial UN Global Indigenous Youth Forum 2026 (FAO)
2026 UN Water Conference - Second Global Online Stakeholder Consultation
Submission of written information by NGOs to the 116th session of the Committee on the elimination of racial discrimination
- Deadline: October 20, 2025
- Consideration of State Reports: Burundi, Guatemala, Maldives, New Zealand, Sweden, Tunisia - List of issues prior to reporting: Japan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Panama, Tonga
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)
NEW: 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
NEW: 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
NEW: Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights: Call for inputs for the country visit to Mexico (March 9 - 20, 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
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
- Identification, demarcation, registration and titling of Indigenous Peoples’ lands: practices and lessons / Interim report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples (A/80/181)
- State of Funding for Tenure Rights - Donor Funding for Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and Afro-Descendant Peoples (English)
- The great green rush: The exponential rise and social impacts of forest carbon offset projects in the DRC (English | French)
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