February-March Deadlines – Calls for Inputs by UN Human Rights Mechanisms
The following calls for inputs have been issued by the UN Human Rights Mechanisms with deadlines in February-March 2022 and law professors whose practice, research, and/or scholarship touches on these topics may be interested in submission:
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – Call for inputs for report on internet shutdowns and human rights. Deadline February 10, 2022. Read more.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – Call for inputs on the issue of child, early and forced marriage. Deadline February 15, 2022. Read more.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – Call for inputs on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the realization of the equal enjoyment of the right to education by every girl. Deadline February 18, 2022. Read more.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – Call for inputs on human rights in the context of HIV and AIDS. Deadline February 20, 2022. Read more.
Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery – Call for inputs on contemporary forms of slavery as affecting persons belonging to ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority communities. Deadline February 20, 2022. Read more.
Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises – Call for inputs on practical application of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to the activities of technology companies. Deadline February 23, 2022. Read more.
Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises – Call for inputs on the mandate of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises. Deadline February 24, 2022. Read more.
Special Rapporteur on summary executions – Call for inputs on knowledge and implementation of the Minnesota Protocol. Deadline February 25, 2022. Read more.
Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights – Call for inputs on “secondary sanctions, civil and criminal penalties for circumvention of sanctions regimes, and over-compliance with sanctions” and “Unilateral sanctions in the cyber world”. Deadline February 28, 2022. Read more.
Working Group on the use of mercenaries – Call for inputs on victims of mercenaries, mercenary related actors, and private military and security companies. Deadline February 28, 2022. Read more.
Special Rapporteur on racial discrimination – Call for inputs on combatting glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. Deadline February 28, 2022. Read more.
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants – Call for inputs on human rights violations at international borders: trends, prevention and accountability. Deadline February 28, 2022. Read more.
Special Rapporteur on the right to development – Call for inputs on the right to development COVID recovery plans and policies and the right to development. Deadline March 1, 2022. Read more.
Special Rapporteur on racial discrimination – Call for inputs on SDGs and the fight against racial discrimination. Deadline March 1, 2022. Read more.
Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights – Call for inputs on Mercury, artisanal and small-scale gold mining and human rights. Deadline March 7, 2022. Read more.
Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery – Call for inputs on contemporary forms of slavery in the informal economy. Deadline March 15, 2022. Read more.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – Call for inputs on the question of the death penalty. Deadline March 18, 2022. Read more.
Special Rapporteur on violence against women – Call for inputs on violence against women and girls in the context of the climate crisis, including environmental degradation and related disaster risk mitigation and response. Deadline March 31, 2022. Read more.