Docip's Weekly News No. 477
12.12.2025
DECEMBER 14 - 20, 2025
Second WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine
December 17 – 19, 2025, New Delhi, India
DEADLINES
Call for Submissions: IBBY-UNESCO Collection of Remarkable Books for Young Readers in Indigenous and Endangered Languages
NEW: Request for side events during the 51st session of the Universal Periodic Review (January 19 - 30, 2026)
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
NEW: Call for Innovations of the Multi-stakeholder forum on science, technology and innovation for the SDGs
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 transforming food systems to protect human rights and prevent climate harm
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)
NEW: Call for applications for the 2026 International Institute for Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Policy
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
April 20 - May 1, 2025, New York, USA
- Theme: "Ensuring Indigenous Peoples’ health, including in the context of conflict"
- Website
July 13 - 17 , 2025, Geneva, Switzerland (date to be confirmed)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
- Indigenous Peoples and just energy transition (English)
- The Landscape of Public International Funding for Human Rights Defenders (English)
Published earlier this week: Docip's Summary Notes on the 18th session of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP)!
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