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UN Human Rights - What's Happening? - Weekly Update 17
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Report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on "Practical recommendations for the creation and maintenance of a safe and enabling environment for civil society, based on good practices and lessons learned"  (April 2016)

The UN Secretary-General's reports on cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights

Invitations
Call for inputs - Report of High Commissioner - "Civil society space in multilateral institutions"  - Deadline extended 30 September  2017
 
Reminder! 
9th Session - 
Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards 
(please send accreditation requests to registry@ohchr.org) - 24 April to 5 May 2017

Reminder! 
Invitation - Expert panel on private security companies in places of deprivation of liberty - 
Working Group on mercenaries - 
27 April 2017, 
10h00 to 13h00 - 
Room XXVII, Palais des Nations, Geneva

Reminder! 
Public Event organised by the UN Fund for victims of torture - "A Victim's Journey: Redress and Rehabilitation for Torture Victims in Migration" -  28 April 2017 from 11am to 1pm in Room VIII, Palais des Nations, Geneva


Reminder! Request for inputs - Secretary General's report on the International Decade for People on African descent - Deadline 30 April 2017

Reminder! Call for inputs- Report on access to justice for the 37th HRC session - Article 13 of the Convention on Rights of persons with disabilities 
- Deadline 1 May 2017
 
Call for inputs on "focus issues" for the eighth session of the Open-ended Working Group on Ageing
- Deadline 5 May 2017
 
Call for inputs- Questionnaire of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes 
- Deadline 12 May 2017
 
  English - F rench
NEW! Call for inputs- Questionnaire of the Special Rapporteur on the right to housing on the right to adequate housing of persons with disabilities
 
- Deadline 15 May 2017
 
Call for inputs- Report of the Secretary General on the implementation of GA resolution A/RES/71/181 "A global call for concrete action for the total elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action"
 
- Deadline 15 May 2017
 
Call for submissions pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 34/37 on Cooperation with Georgia 
(contributions should be sent to ecasection@ohchr.org)
- Deadline 15 May 2017 
 
Call for inputs- Report of the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights on the "Impact of fundamentalism and extremism on the cultural rights of women" 
- Deadline 19 May 2017
 
   English - French - Spanish
Call for inputs - Special Rapporteur - "Non-State Actors and Extra-judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Killing" - Deadline 31 May 2017
 
Call for 
applications for the OHCHR Annual 2017 Fellowship Programme for people of African descent - Deadline 31 May 2017
 
Treaty Bodies
Update!  Regularly updated news about what committees are meeting, documentation, jurisprudence, etc.   Read more

Room Correction! The  Committee against Torture will hold a General Discussion (GD) on the draft revised general comment " on the  implementation of article 3 of the Convention in the context of article 22  ",  Friday, 28 April 2017, 10.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m., Room XVII, Palais des Nations, Geneva. Read More

92th session of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 24 April - 12 May 2017. See the information note for NGOs: English - French - Spanish

Who's up for election?  Read more

Treaty Bodies - Protecting Your Rights.  ( Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish )



  
Special Procedures
Update!  Regularly updated calendar and news about which Special Procedures expert is travelling where? Read more

New Special Procedures communications search website Read more

Latest report of cases of human rights violations taken up by Special Procedures.   Read more

Acts of intimidation and reprisal for cooperation with the special procedures.  Read more

Submission of information to the Special Procedures
 


Human Rights Council -- UPR
NEW! Call for applications for experts - Deadline 1 June 2017. Read more

NEW! Nominations - Members of independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar (Human Rights Council resolution 34/22) - Names and CV of independent, impartial and highly qualified experts in international human rights law and international humanitarian law - Office of the President of the Human Rights Council: hrcpresidency@un.org

Letter from the HRC President: Call for nominations, Chairperson of 2017 Social Forum. Read more

Reminder! 27th session Universal Periodic Review Working Group (1-12 May 2017) -  NGO Information Meeting Room Request - Deadline 17 April 2017. Read more

HRC35 - IMPORTANT - NEW SYSTEM FOR ACCREDITATION! Information about NGO participation at the forthcoming 35th Session of the Human Rights Council - 6 to 23 June 2017 - Palais des Nations Room XX.   Read more

Working Group Universal Periodic Review - Deadlines -  Stakeholders' submissions for the 28th and 29th sessions:  30 March 2017 for 28th session and 29 June 2017 for 29th session. 
Stakeholders should submit their contributions through the online UPR submissions registration system (https://uprdoc.ohchr.org)  not later than the day of the given deadline (3:00 p.m.) .  Should organizations encounter technical problems using the online system, please contact the UPR Submissions Helpdesk (uprsubmissions@ohchr.org).  Read more - Online portal

UPR Submission Guidelines for NGOs.  Read more


  
Regional Human Rights Mechanisms
Africa
 
Ruling in the matter of General Kayumba Nyamwasa and 6 Others which was rendered on 24th March at seat of  the African Court in Arusha. English - French

The Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights calls for contributions to the draft study on "HIV, the Law and Human Rights in the African Human Rights System: Key Challenges and Opportunities for Rights-based Responses to HIV.   Read more

The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights announces the publication of the First Edition of the African Human Rights Yearbook, and invites abstracts for papers that will propose groundbreaking academic style contributions to the human rights discourse in Africa.   Read more

Americas
 
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights continues work on the participatory development of its Strategic Plan and invites civil society to regional consultations.    Read more

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemns the deaths of nearly 100 people in prisons in Brazil.    Read more

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights presents financial projections for 2017 and opens dialogue to raise funds to defend and protect human rights in the region.   Read more

Asia

Press release: AICHR judicial colloquium on the sharing of good practice regarding international human rights law, 13 - 15 March 2017. Read more

ASEAN, UN join forces to end violence against children. Read more

Europe 

The Shrinking Space for Human Rights Organisations - New HR Comment by Nils Muiznieks, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. Read more

News

Torture of detainees in Afghanistan persists - UN report Read more

Press briefing on South Sudan and Maldives Read more
UN human rights expert urges halt to rising hostility on Korean Peninsula.  Read more

Halt Yemen conflict now to save generation from famine and cut "alarming" child mortality - UN experts. Read more
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Other useful links
Useful information for non-governmental organizations based in Switzerland inviting participants to meetings and events organized in Switzerland:

CAGI Delegate Welcome Service and Delegates Information Desk
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