Docip's Weekly News No. 476
05.12.2025
DECEMBER 7 - 13, 2025
December 1 - 11, 2025, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland
Seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7)
December 8 - 12, Nairobi, Kenya
December 10, 2025
DEADLINES
Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights: Call for inputs for the country visit to Mexico (March 9 - 20, 2026)
Call for inputs: UN report on the interlinkages between land rights and the right to food
NEW: Call for case studies: Interlinkages between Indigenous Knowledge, Biodiversity Conservation or Restoration, Health, and Traditional Medicine
Call for inputs: UN report on transforming food systems to protect human rights and prevent climate harm
Call for Submissions: IBBY-UNESCO Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endangered Languages
Call for inputs: UN report on new technologies and transitional justice
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)
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children: Call for inputs for the country visit to Chad (February 16 - 26, 2026)
Call for nominations: Front Line Defenders 2026 Award for human rights defenders at risk
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: EMRIP study on “the rights of Indigenous Peoples in conflict and post-conflict situations”
Call for applications for the 3rd Biennial UN Global Indigenous Youth Forum 2026 (FAO)
Call for inputs: UN report on Corporate Governance, Business and Human Rights
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
January 12 - 30, 2026, Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland (TBC)
- Website
- Consideration of State Reports: Burkina Faso, Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Spain, Uganda
January 19 - 30, 2026, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
- Website
- States under review: Micronesia (Federated States of), Lebanon, Mauritania, Nauru, Rwanda, Nepal, Saint Lucia, Oman, Austria, Australia, Georgia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sao Tome and Principe
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- The State of Food and Agriculture 2025 (English)
- Compendium of Developments in Indigenous Peoples–Related Jurisprudence in the Context of the Just Transition (English)
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