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January-February 2025 Deadlines: Calls for Inputs by Human Rights Mechanisms

The following calls for inputs have been issued by UN Human Rights Mechanisms with deadlines in January-February 2024 and law professors whose practice, research, and/or scholarship touches on these topics may be interested in submission:

Special Rapporteur on the right to food – Call for inputs to inform a thematic report to the Human Rights Council on the implementation of a rights-based approach to food on the national and global scales. Deadline January 2, 2025. Read more.

Special Rapporteur on the right to health – Call for inputs to inform a thematic report health and care workers as key protectors of the right to health. Deadline January 3, 2025. Read more.

Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression – Call for inputs informing a forthcoming report on “Freedom of Expression and Elections in the Digital Age,” relating to digital technology’s effects on access to information and disinformation. Deadline January 16, 2025. Read more.

Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls – Call for inputs to inform an addendum to clarify the terms and approaches to the concept of consent and the use of consent in international human rights law and national legislation. Deadline January 30, 2025. Read more.

Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – Call for inputs to inform the preparation of a study on Indigenous Peoples right to data, including data collection and disaggregation. Deadline January 31, 2025. Read more.

Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – Call for inputs to inform a report on the right of Indigenous Peoples to their traditional economies. Deadline January 31, 2025. Read more.

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights – Call for inputs to inform an update to the technical guidance on the application of a human rights-based approach to the elimination of preventable maternal mortality and morbidity. Deadline February 13, 2025. Read more.

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Call for written submissions for a general discussion on the rights of persons with disabilities to political and public life to political and public life pursuant to article 29 of the Convention. Deadline February 15, 2025. Read more.

Multiple Mechanisms – Call for inputs to inform the drafting of the EMRTD thematic study on “Climate Justice, Sustainability, and the Right to Development.” Deadline February 20, 2025. Read more.

Special Rapporteur on climate change – Call for inputs to inform a thematic report on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change and a just transition away from fossil fuels. Deadline February 28, 2025. Read more.

This information was compiled from https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input-listing.